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Greetings programs!  This week on the show, we take a look at the newly on-demand fantasy heist movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves before switching gears to the upcoming Canadian dramatization of the rise and fall of one of our biggest tech giants, BlackBerry.   We also talk a little about the writer’s strike, and just…

Greetings programs! This week we dive into the latest instalment in the ongoing Scream franchise and then into a bloody Finnish revenge story. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-scream-6-sisu/ This week’s subscriber bonus chat starts with headphones and ends with Malta, with stops in Jurassic Park and Gladiator. We hope you enjoy it! Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-30th-2023-82310582

Greetings programs! This week on the show, we dive head first into two…. well, two not-great films. First up is the Adam Driver Fights Dinosaurs sci-fi actioner 65. Then we look at the new Chris Evans & Ana de Armas action rom-com Ghosted.  Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-65-ghosted/ This week on our patron-subscriber bonus chat, we dive…

We’re back after a brief hiatus, and this week we’re covering Canadian Screen Award Best Picture nominee Falcon Lake and the new indie thriller How To Blow Up A Pipeline.  Spoiler alert: it’s two good movies on this week’s show! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-falcon-lake-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline/ This week for our subscriber bonus talk we start out talking a little about the…

Greetings programs!  Join Matthew and Simon for a dive into the world of hyper-stylized action that is John Wick: Chapter 4, and then into the weird but true story of Cold War politics, intrigue, and espionage that is Tetris.  It’s a weird show, but hey, when is it not? Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/04/podcast-john-wick-tetris/ Patrons can also hear our…

Greetings, programs and welcome back to the show!  This week we are looking at two 2023 releases now available on demand.  First up is the new screen-set film Missing starring Storm Reid, and the Hindi language action thriller Pathaan starring Shah Rukh Khan!  Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/03/podcast-missing-pathaan/ Patrons can also join us for a…

Greetings programs!  This week on the show Matthew and Simon dig into the latest meme-turned-movie Cocaine Bear and the Canadian Screen Award Best Picture nominee, Brother.  One of these films is really good and the other … well, you’ll have to listen to find out! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/03/podcast-cocaine-bear-brother/ This week, patrons at all tiers can…

Greetings Programs!  This week on the show we look at a Canadian festival darling, Chandler Levack’s I Like Movies,  as well as the recent Berlinale debut Inside starring Willem Dafoe.  There’s a lot to talk about, especially when it comes to what works for one viewer vs another.   Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/03/podcast-i-like-movies-inside/ BONUS CONTENT:    If you are a…

Greetings programs and welcome to this week’s episode of the show.  This week is all Disney all the time as we are slightly late to the part on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania but also slightly early to the party for The Mandalorian Season 3, of which we have seen the first two episodes. …

Greetings programs!  This week on the show Matthew and Simon take a look at the new M. Night Shyamalan movie Knock at the Cabin and the new Netflix release We Have a Ghost.  There are many opinions in this one, so listen and let us know what you think! Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/02/podcasts-knock-at-the-ghost/

Greetings programs! This week Rachel & I take a look at two new streaming releases. First up is Prime Video’s new rom-com Somebody I Used To Know starring Alison Brie and directed by her husband, Dave Franco. After that, we look a the new AppleTV+ original Sharper, a thriller about grifters and con artists grifting and conning…

Greetings programs! This week we’re talking about the newly released Korean Sci-Fi film JUNG_E which just dropped on Netflix, and the not-so-newly released Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which just dropped on Disney+. Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/02/podcast-jung_e-black-panther-wakanda-forever/

Greetings programs!  You’ve all been good so here’s a bonus episode of the podcast in which Rachel Ho and Matthew break down a few great titles from this year Sundance Film Festival. This was Matthew’s first year attending the festival and Rachel’s second, and it was a pretty good year if these six films…

Greetings, programs, and welcome back to the show!  This week we dive into two 2023 releases.  First, we’ll discuss the new Netflix rom-com You People, starring Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.  Second, we’ll catch up with the Blumhouse-produced killer robot doll movie M3gan!     Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/01/podcast-you-people-m3gan/

Greetings programs! This week on the show, we’re catching up with two more 2022 films, the IFC Midnight produced Shudder exclusive Burial and the latest film in the Shrek franchise, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. One of these movies is a little more divisive than the other here at Awesome Friday HQ; listen to find out which! Episode Homepage:…