Awesome Friday Podcast

Greeting programs! This week on the podcast we are discussing Jordan Peele's latest directorial effort, the UFO horror thriller Nope , and Quinn Shephard's indictment of influencer culture Not Okay.  Join us for this discussion of two thematically linked films, something we totally planned for.  Honest.  Also:  Head over to this episode's homepage for JustWatch powered streaming links and all of o...

Greetings programs! This week on the podcast, we’re talking about BJ Novak’s feature directorial debut Vengeance , and the Russo Brothers helmed $200 action blockbuster The Gray Man , starring Chris Evans and Canada’s Ryan Gosling. Check out this episode's homepage for streaming links, review scores, and all of our other content.   Join us! SUPPORT:             Patreon     Ko-Fi CONNECT WITH US: ...

Welcome back, friends to a new episode of the games podcast!  This week I wax lyrical about the splendours of ' Neon White ', before trying to convince you of its link to EA's ' Medal Of Honor ' reboot from 2010. Enjoy! Visit this episode's homepage to find a full listing of where you can listen to Awesome Friday as well as all of our other content: Neon White & Medal of Honor at AwesomeFriday...

Greetings, programs and welcome to a special bonus episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast. In our main episode this week , we asked over fifty of our friends to contribute their top ten Marvel Cinematic Universe entries and used those to establish a consensus top ten. We also asked everyone if they would be willing to record a short audio clip about their favourite with the intent of sprinkling tho...

Greetings, programs, and welcome to our first anniversary! It's hard to believe we relaunched the podcast a year ago to the day, but here we are a year later. We are so grateful for all of you, for your listening and engagement, and for the community that we're starting to build.  It's fitting that this week saw the release of two new Marvel Cinematic Universe entries because that's how the show b...

Hello! Welcome to a new edition of the games podcast where I throw superlatives at two of my favourite games so far this year. First, I talk space flight and violent atmosphere-heat death in ‘ Flight Of Nova ‘, then making John Woo movies in ‘ Superhot VR ‘. It’s unscripted again – time, it’s (not) on my side – but back to being double the length! Yay! So settle in and join me actually finding my...

It’s back! New year craziness and some technical issues brought the game podcast to a halt, and life found a way (to get in the way), but it finally feels like a good time to restart! You’ll notice that the games podcast is going to have shorter episodes from now on, both to help make it fit into my schedule, and also because I’m only going to talk about one game at a time. However, it’s now fully...

Greetings programs! Welcome to the first episode of July, in which we discuss a lovely new movie and the return of a much-loved television series. In the top half, we’ll introduce you to Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, the brainchild of Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer-Camp, and Elisabeth Holm, which balances childlike whimsey with deep emotional resonance. Then, in the bottom half of the show, we’re t...

Greetings programs! Dan Mirvish is an award-winning filmmaker known for films like Omaha: The Musical! and Bernard & Huey , as well as co-founding the Slamdance Film Festival. His latest film is a genre mashup, part thriller and part dark comedy, set in the 1970s and adjacent to the watergate scandal 18 1/2 tells the story of a young transcriptionist who hears the infamous missing time from th...

Greeting programs! Join us this week as we discuss the upcoming Netflix animated film The Sea Beast , directed by Chris Williams and starring Karl Urban and Jared Harris, and the recently concluded Obi-Wan Kenobi series from Disney+. There are streaming links powered by JustWatch as well as all of our other content available at this episodes homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/06/podcast-the-s...

Greetings programs and welcome to this week's episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast. Simon is back after his week off and we are talking about two new streaming releases. First up is the new Netflix Sci-Fi thriller Spiderhead , starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett. Following that we have Sundance darling Cha Cha Real Smooth , the sophomore effort from writer, director, and s...

Greetings programs! It’s time for a new episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast! This week we’re looking at a pair of sports movies: Hustle , the love letter to basketball from Adam Sandler, and The Phantom of the Open , the true story of the man who shot the worst round of golf in British Open History, starring Mark Rylance.  This week Simon had some commitments that couldn’t be avoided, but luckil...

Greetings, programs, and welcome to this week’s podcast! Following a year-long journey from its festival premiere at Fantasia 2021, Mark O’Brien’s The Righteous is finally coming to cinemas and on-demand thanks to Arrow Video and Vortex Media, and after a 36-year gap, Tom Cruise is back as a Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in the long-awaited sequel to the 1980s classic Top Gun , Top Gun: Maverick . Ther...

Greetings programs! Canadian actor Mark O’Brien has been working steadily since the mid-2000s with roles in CBC’s The Republic of Doyle and AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire , and movie appearances in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s Ready or Not , and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story .  This week sees his feature film writing and directorial debut, The Righteous , arr...

This week on the Awesome Friday Podcast, we’re talking about two big 2022 historical epic films. First up is the Tollywood breakout RRR from director S. S. Rajamouli and stars Ram Charam and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Second, the latest from The Witc h and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers, The Northman . You can listen to this episode right here on this page (after the jump) or wherever you listen to...

Greeting programs! This week, we’re looking at the newly on-demand Uncharted starring Tom Holland and the new streaming nostalgia trip Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Join us! You can find JustWatch powered streaming links for each film, as well as all of our other content, at this episode's homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/05/podcast-uncharted--chip-n-dale-rescue-rangers/  We want to say wel...

Greetings , programs, and welcome to a very special episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast.  Airplane! is one of the greatest comedy films of all time, but did you know it’s a remake? This week we are talking all about Airplane! and the 1957 Canadian Melodrama it's based on, Zero Hour! . You can find JustWatch powered streaming links for both movies on this episode's home page: https://awesomefrida...

Greetings programs! Writer and director Emerson Moore's first feature, Escape the Field , a story about six strangers stranded in an endless cornfield, is on-demand now. I had the chance to sit down with him via zoom to talk about the film, his experiences making it, and more! You can find streaming links for Escape The Field on this episodes homepage here: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/05/intervi...

Greetings programs and welcome to another episode of the Awesome Friday Podcast! This week we’re taking a look at Celine Schiamma’s delightful Petite Maman , and the latest entry in the juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness .  Join us! There are JustWatch powered streaming links, as well as all our other content, available this episodes homep...

Another week, another podcast episode! Join us for discussions of the new Liam Neeson led action thriller Memory and the sophomore effort from The Daniels Everything Everywhere All At Once.  There are JustWatch powered streaming links, as well as all of our other content, available at this episode's homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/05/podcast-memory-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/ We wan...

Salutations applications, and welcome to a new episode of The Awesome Friday Podcast. We're back after a two-week hiatus and talking about two of the year's most anticipated movies. First up, freshly t streaming services and premium rental, Matt Reeves's noir-inspired take on the caped crusader, The Batman . Following that, the newly released to cinemas film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent...

The third Wednesday of every year is National Canadian Film Day, a nationwide event that celebrates the best in Canadian cinema. This year is no different, and tomorrow's event promises to be one of the best yet, with screening events in every province and territory and around the world. This morning I sat down with Jack Blum, executive director of Reel Canada (the organisation that puts National...

Greetings programs! Welcome to another Awesome Friday interview! Joining me this time is Jonas Chernick, who produced, co-wrote, and stars in the film Ashgrove. Ashgrove is the story of a scientist played by Amanda Brugel, who may be the key to solving a worldwide pandemic and is forced to take a few days for herself and her family. Chernick plays her husband, and we sat down to talk about the fil...

Greeting programs, and welcome to the Awesome Friday Podcast. This week we’re taking a closer look at the new ridiculous (in a good way) Roland Emmerich film Moonfall and the Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi led series Our Flag Means Death. Spoiler alert we loved both of these things , so come and join us for a love fest.  Ed. Note: We had technical difficulties while recording this episode; some inte...

Salutations applications, and welcome to an Awesome Friday Interview with actor Shawn Doyle! A native of Newfoundland, Shawn has been working steadily in film and television since the early 1990s, and in just the last few years has racked up an impressive filmography that includes recurring appearances in The Expanse, Hannibal, Cardinal (for which he won a Canadian Screen Award last year) and most...