The Movie Podcast

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Gran Turismo Composer Andrew Kawczynski. Based in Los Angeles, Andrew Kawczynski is a composer specializing in film, television, commercials and video games. He has written original music for feature films (The Eight Hundred, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as a member of the band- Hans Zimmer and "The Magnificent Six,) variou...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Antoine Fuqua's THE EQUALIZER 3. Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bos...

This week on The Movie Podcast, Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony are LIVE from FAN EXPO Canada in Toronto with 5x Canadian Screen Award Nominee Jay McCarrol. Thank you to our friends at The Sonar Network for inviting The Movie Podcast to partner with them on this panel. BlackBerry is now available on Blu-Ray, DVD, Digital, and everywhere you rent movies. Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Shahbaz is joined LIVE from the Blue Beetle Canadian Premiere carpet with Director Ángel Manuel Soto. Blue Beetle is now playing exclusively in theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures. Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.ca Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcast Contac...

The Movie Podcast LIVE is coming to FAN EXPO CANADA in TORONTO with SPECIAL GUEST Jay McCarrol! Join us FRIDAY AUGUST 25 at 12PM ET in the South Building (Level 700) Room 717 AB.  On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Emmy-Nominated Composer JOHN POWELL of STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE. John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He h...

The Movie Podcast LIVE is coming to FAN EXPO CANADA in TORONTO with SPECIAL GUEST Jay McCarrol! Join us FRIDAY AUGUST 25 at 12PM ET in the South Building (Level 700) Room 717 AB. Daniel and Shahbaz review Dave Filoni's STAR WARS: AHSOKA, an eight episode Disney+ series. Set after the fall of the Empire, AHSOKA follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a v...

Daniel and Shahbaz review Angel Manuel Soto's BLUE BEETLE. Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab suddenly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he is bestowed with an incredible suit of armor...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by DANIEL HENNEY of The Wheel of Time on Prime Video. Based on the best-selling Robert Jordan fantasy series, The Wheel of Time Season 2 returns with threats new and very old seek out the young friends from the Two Rivers, now scattered over the world. The woman who found and guided them is now powerless to help, and so th...

Does Oppenheimer use CGI? On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel, Shahbaz & Anthony are joined by Oscar-Winning VFX Supervisor Andrew Jackson of DNEG for a conversation on recreating the atomic bomb, AI, making Christopher Nolan's vision for Oppenheimer a reality. Oppenheimer is an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Neill Blomkamp's GRAN TURISMO, based on a true story. A teenage Gran Turismo player named Jann Mardenborough has gaming skills that win a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver. The film stars David Harbour, Archie Madekwe, Orlando Bloom, Darren Barnet, Djimon Hounsou, and Geri Halliwell. Gran Turismo begins playing in early...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Shahbaz and Anthony are joined by Directors Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou of A24 horror film TALK TO ME. When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. Talk To Me is now playing exclusively in theat...

This week on The Movie Podcast, Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony discuss the HISTORIC Box Office of Barbie and Oppenheimer that are making movies like Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning and Haunted Mansion struggle, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, Kraven and more get delayed due to WGA/SAG strikes, and more IMAX screens are coming to Canada. They also discuss new trailers for GEN V, The Exorcist:...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Anthony are joined by MICHAEL SHEEN and DAVID TENNANT of GOOD OMENS on Prime Video. Originally based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling novel, Good Omens Season 2 explores storylines that go beyond the original source material to illuminate the ineffable friendship between Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), a fussy ange...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Jeff Rowe's TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM. After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutan...

Shahbaz and Anthony review Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou's TALK TO ME. When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. The film stars Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji, and Miranda Otto. Talk To Me releases exclusively in the...

On this week’s episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony talk all things BARBENHEIMER including their record setting weekend at the Box Office. They also discuss the SAG strike, new trailers, and the likely delays coming to the rest of the year’s movie slate.  Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.ca Get a whole month of great c...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER, based on the biography American Prometheus. Oppenheimer is an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. The film stars an ensemble cast including Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Matt...

Daniel, Shahbaz, and Anthony review Greta Gerwig's BARBIE. To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. The film stars an ensemble cast including Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Ship, Simu Liu, Issa Rae, Michael Cera, Hari Nef, K...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Anthony are joined by HENRY CZERNY aka KITTRIDIGE of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, making his return since the 1996 original film. In that movie, Kittridge was a governmental company man who wrongly accused Ethan Hunt of being a mole, and got a fish tank blown up on him for his troubles. In the intervening years, he has rise...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by LEE PACE and LAURA BIRN of FOUNDATION on Apple TV+. More than a century after the Season 1 finale, tension mounts throughout the galaxy. As the Cleons unravel, a vengeful queen plots to destroy Empire from within. Hari, Gaal, and Salvor discover a colony of Mentalics with special abilities that threaten to alter psychoh...

Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review Christopher McQuarrie's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closin...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by PHIL LORD, CHRIS MILLER, ANTHONY KING, KEN JEONG, AND JOHN CHO of THE AFTERPARTY on Apple TV+. In season two, a wedding is ruined when the groom is murdered and every guest is a suspect. Each episode of “The Afterparty” explores a different character’s account of one fateful evening, all told through the lens of popular...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Shahbaz and Anthony are joined by the cast of THE WITCHER SEASON 3. As monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent compete to capture her, Geralt takes Ciri into hiding, determined to protect his newly-reunited family against those who threaten to destroy it. Entrusted with Ciri’s magical training, Yennefer leads them to the protected fortress of Aret...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony are joined by CAMILLE SALAZAR HADAWAY and NAOMI LASERNA for a discussion on everything THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM. Follow Camille Salazar Hadaway on Twitter and Instagram Follow Naomi Laserna on Twitter and Instagram  Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast interview now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMovi...

On this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by MADS MIKKELSEN, BOYD HOLBROOK, and SHAUNETTE RENÉE WILSON of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Harrison Ford returns to the role of the legendary hero archaeologist for this fifth instalment of the iconic franchise. Starring along with Ford are Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Shaunette Ren...