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This week on the show, we’re covering the just-released thriller Eileen, starring Thomasin McKenzie and the incomparable Anne Hathaway, which Matthew first saw at Sundance 2023, and then finally follow up with Taika Waititi’s latest sports underdog story Next Goal Wins.  Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/01/podcast-eileen-next-goal-wins/ This week’s bonus episode, available to all paid Patreon supporters, starts…

Greetings programs!  Join us this week as we look closer at the new Marvel Cinematic UNvierse series Echo and then the new F Gary Gray heist film Lift, which stars Kevin Hart.  We liked one of these things more than the other. Listen to find out which! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/01/podcast-echo-lift/ This week’s bonus conversation is…

Greetings programs! This week, we’re diving into the world of the Hunger Games with the new prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and then taking a look at Span’s entry for the Best International Feature award at this year’s Oscars, The Society of the Snow. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/01/the-hunger-games-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-the-society-of-the-snow/ On this week’s Patron Bonus Round,…

Greetings programs! This week, we tackle the latest capital-C content from Netflix in Leave The World Behind and then the first new collaboration between Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne in nearly twenty years, the 1970s and Christmas set The Holdovers. Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/12/podcast-leave-the-world-behind-the-holdovers/ This week, our Patreon supporters can hear us talk about our favourite background…

This week on the show we’re finally catching up with Martin Scorsese’s epic meditation on American sin, Killers of the Flower Moon, and the latest entry in the 70-year-strong giant monster franchise, Godzilla Minus One.  Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/12/podcast-killer-of-the-flower-moon-godzilla-minus-one/ This week’s Patreon bonus episode has Simon asking for our dream Star Wars pitches and Matthew asking about…

This week on the show, we’re reviewing the latest video game film adaptation, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and the latest from superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Jawan.  Also, join us for this week’s bonus show, free for all listeners! Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/11/podcast-five-nights-at-freddys-jawan/ Greetings, patrons -and everyone else! – this week on the bonus show…

This week on the show, we’re looking at Anatomy of a Fall and the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Marvels. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/11/podcast-anatomy-of-a-fall-the-marvels/ Greetings patrons! This week for your bonus show we end up talking at length about movies that we have bought blind and ended up loving, and also the best…

Greetings programs!  This week’s show sees us taking on the newest David Fincher movie, The Killer and the new Godzilla TV series from AppleTV+, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.  Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/11/podcast-the-killer-monarch-legacy-of-monsters/

Greetings programs! This week, we’re taking on two films new to Disney+: Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot mystery, A Haunting in Venice, and the new Awkwafina & Sandra Oh starring comedy Quiz Lady. Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/11/podcast-a-haunting-in-venice-quiz-lady/

Greetings programs!  We’re back after an impromptu hiatus!  To make up for it we’re talking about three films on the show: Emma Seligman’s Bottoms, Chloe Domont’s Fair Play, and David Yates’s Pain Hustlers.  Join us! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/10/podcast-bottoms-fair-play-pain-hustlers/

This week on the show, we dive into two movies in which our opinions are nearly mirror images of one another.  Join us for discussions of Flora and Son, and The Creator! Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/10/podcast-flora-and-son-the-creator/