The Reel Debaters

The Reel Debaters

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The Reel Debaters is a cocktail of unapologetic movie nerds and sharp minds with a pure love for cinema broadcasting from the heart of Manitoba's vibrant and ever-growing film scene. Each episode, this crew of cinephiles and industry insiders sits down to explore film and television through a lens that’s equal parts irreverent and insightful, with a deep respect for storytelling and a sense of humour that doesn’t take itself too seriously. With their Brackets, what-if scenarios, Top 5 lists, comparisons, and more, there isn’t a on-screen topic they won’t touch. Leave a voice mail and test them...

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Mar 15, 2026

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#66 Special Features: Extras Casting Director Shelly Anthis 28.11.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal Petrow and Mark Cowell sat down with Shelly Anthis to talk about her finding a passion in film making, extras casting, her mad baking skills and the responsibility she feels to always make sure each roll is casted with the most care on our series Manitobans Making Movies. The show loves Shelly. We know you will too. Wanna send us your opinion on this week's e...

#Ep. 65 "Let us put more of this liquid in our bodies" The Best Cocktail Debate 19.11.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin Navarro, Rob Strachan and Micheal Petrow welcome Mixologist Alex Black on the show. We open with best on screen performance of being drunk, break into a debate that forces us to make an entire alcoholic product around some of favorite movie characters and close with a professionals view of bartenders on screen. 4 out of 4 debaters on this show suggest a cockta...

#64 Special Features: Director Ian Bawa 12.11.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal sat down with Ian bawa to talk about his transition from law to film school, short film making, editing, working in manitoba film and his new project STRONG SON that debuted at TIFF 2020. Wanna send us your opinion on this week's episode? Hit up our voicemail and drop us a comment. RD voicemail Events: Housekeeping Like being in the know? Hate FOMO? Follow us...

#63 The Reel Debaters Halloween Special 2020 05.11.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal Petrow, Martin Navarro Jimmy Skinner and Guest Rhett Williams joins the cast for their annual Halloween special. We also honor Sir Sean Connery with our worst impressions and try and come up with new awards to hand out at the oscars. We went hard in the paint so here's the breakdown to move around and little and listen to whatever tickles your blood. 1.Death...

#62 Special Features: Filmmaker Ben Williams 29.10.2020

This week The Reel Debaters Micheal sat down with Manitoba film professional Ben Williams to talk the 48 Film fest, a canadian wide film festival coming in 2021 that celebrates movies made in 48 hours. Ben Williams is the new Director for the The 48 Film Festival Inc. formed in April 2020. For the last six years he served as the Director of Development and Marketing and Production Centre Director...

#Ep.61 "Oh now Wally, give me a bag of that effin pig feed" The Best Covid Roommate Debate 22.10.2020

This week on the show: shirt stains, what avatar would we would be if we could play in The Oasis from Ready Player One and Jimmy Skinner, Micheal Petrow, Martin Navvaro and Rob Strachan question who they would want to live with for 2 weeks if they had to quarintine with Covid. A debate inspired by Misery (1990) Follow us @reeldebaters on Twitter and Instagram Website: thereeldebaters.ca Email us a...

#Ep.60 "You Shall Not Pass" The Best Hobbit Recasting Debate 09.10.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters we have movies with AM radio, who punches Rick Morranis, movie props to hang in the house, Micheal gets preachy about Star Wars marketing, Shredder is now called Papa Shreddy according to Jimmy, what did we watch this week and a debate about recasting The Hobbit with any 4 other human movie characters to do the long walk to Mordor Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @ree...

Ep.59 Cult Movie Night At The Park Theatre 01.10.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters we go live from [The Park Theatre](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiWuYHjmpLsAhUCGc0KHelUDv0QFjAAegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myparktheatre.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0M3sYR8O4KmacAJnVd1dVk) for Cult Movie Night #2 Movie of the night: Cemetery Man (1994) directed Michele Soavi, starring Rupert Everett,Francois Hadji-La...

#Ep.58 "With great power comes great responsibility" The Best Superhero Debate 24.09.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Rob Strachan tells us how he likes his junk food, Micheal Petrow tries to explain TENET(2020) with a spoiler alert but it'll help you in the end, Mark Cowell thinks the empire had the right to blow up Alderaan in Star Wars, Martin Navarro thinks we need to know what happened to Virgil Kent before we meet him in the Usual Suspects (1995) and we build our own super her...

#Ep.57 "What women want?" A Reel Talk On Love In Cinema 17.09.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Michael Petrow and Mark Cowell sit down with Chrissy Latimer(Marks partner) and Jackie Armstrong and have a fire side chat to get a better idea of what women want in a leading man on screen, romantic tropes, real life comparisons and dickens cider in a follow up to our valentines special End credit trailer is brought to you by was inspired by [Dickins Cider](https://...

#56 Special Features: Make Up Artist Doug Morrow #2 10.09.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Makeup Artist Doug Morrow does round 2 with Micheal Petrow and Jimmy Skinner live from his studio. They go over the evolution of its use in movies, we quiz his eye for what he likes and we asked him to go over some of makeup heavy films and find out how they do what they do Wanna send us your opinion on this week's episode? Hit up our voicemail and drop us a comment....

#55 Special Features: Director Sean Garrity 03.09.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal interviews Sean Garrity director and owner of Bed Bug Films Sean Garrity came on to tell us about his life before film, what got him behind the camera and his collection of his work ending with his most recent film "I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight" (if you are reading this on release day it's still in theatres ...GO SEE THIS MOVIE, IT'S...

Ep.54 Cult movie night live from The Park Theatre 27.08.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters we get to kick off our live series from the best live event venue in Canada, The Park Theatre. This series is dedicated to learning more about what makes cult movies so popular and the followings they have collected over the years. Movie of the night: Zombie (1979) directed by Lucio Fulci , staring Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson and Al Cliver. Listen to...

Ep.53 "I'm king of the world" The Best Loved Film Debate 20.08.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin tells us about Titanic, Jimmy chews the fat on Ferris Bueller, Micheal and Forrest Gump have words and Rob and American Beauty get angry as we question "what globally loved movie is just the worst" and what movies make us cry. Tune in for a special end credit scene where we talk about a potential study on cat hair. None of the cats in the apartment where this...

#Ep.52 "Beautiful maidens and Magical Prophecies", A Reel Talk on Crappy Movies and Opening Scenes 13.08.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Rob is afraid of Micheal's yoga shorts, shirtless cheese burger eating in the movie theatre, Mcdonald's new donuts, what movie has a great opening scene and we question "whats the worst movie that should be loved" Cast: Jimmy Skinner, Martin Navarro, Micheal Petrow and Rob Strachan Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a review](https:/...

#Ep.51 "Good Morning Vietnam" The Best Radio Show Debate 06.08.2020

This week The Reel Debaters host the genius behind the informative and wicked smart podcast The Couch Potatoes, hosts Brett Mcgarry and Jeff Braun. Mark clarifies who went down Mariannas Trench, my apartment inspires Brett to buy more art, Jeff went to the movies in real life and this week we question what movie character should have their own radio show. Cast: Mark Cowell and Micheal Petrow Tune...

#Ep.50 "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight" The Bad Guy Apprentice Debate 30.07.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters James Beaver shits on sewer people, Jimmy tells Micheal he's wrong a lot, Martin thinks the best toilets are in Tokyo and we ask the questions if you could work for any bad guy as an apprentice who would it be and why and if 2020 was a movie , what would it be about...kinda of. Cast: Jimmy Skinner, Martin Navarro, Micheal Petrow and James Beaver Twitter @reeldebaters...

#Ep.49 "High school - those are your prime suffering years" The Best Highschool Debate 23.07.2020

This week on The Reel Debsters we talk about what Danny Devito in The Trashman and the green bastard have in common, is Chris Hemsworth right for the role of Hulk Hogan and debate what highschool we would want to go to from any movie. In the living room are special guests James Beaver from Beaver Does Movies podcast and Sean and Todd Miginity from The Seangeek Podcast. Truly genuine debaters. Down...

#48 Special Features: Director Simon Jaynes 16.07.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters owner of Talo Films and filmmaker Simon Jaynes about the process of making a documentary and his new film about about extreme ice racing titled "No Road Blocks Just Detours". Simon is a technical wizard with all the fun toys and we get into VFX and post production tactics as well. Talo Films Wanna send us your opinion on this week's episode? Hit up our voicemail and...

#47 Special Features: Tripwire Media and Doug Darling 10.07.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters Doug Darling from Tripwire Media Group pulls up a chair in the living room with Mark Cowell and Micheal Petrow for our series "Manitobans Making Movies" ( he confirmed it on this episode) about the science of storytelling and working in video and animation in a dump truck load of different ways. Click on [Tripwire Media Group](https://www.tripwiremedia.com) for more...

#Ep 46. "Eat Floor, High Fibre" A Reel Talk About Batman, Zombies and Joel Schumacher 02.07.2020

This week on the show we talk about our favourite Joel Schumacher and Ian Holm films, Flash and the casting of Micheal Keaton as Batman, how would we fair in a zombie apocalypse and we play "who would win in a fight" In the living room this week is Rob Strachan and Jason Bret Fallman and live from Vancouver Martin Navarro. Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a revi...

#Ep.45 "Organic and Biometric Moving Parts" A Reel Talk On Anime, The Justice League and Movie Theaters After Covid 04.06.2020

This week on The Reel Debaters we start off with Martin learned Japanese in university just to better understand anime, will the Justice league directors cut dress to impress, the dropping of the tenet trailer on fortnite and what we think movie theatre life will be life when we get to go back **apologies for the call waiting, the cops were calling to tell me my car had been found. I sure hope "di...

#Ep.44 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli" The Best Last Meal Debate 28.05.2020

Welcome to the last meal The Reel Debaters ever eat. Boy are we gluttons. Premise: You've committed a capital crime and have been sent to death row. Its time for your last meal. What famous meal(s) from the movies are you consuming before you leave this planet and who is your chef de cuisine. Rules: Your food stuffs and chef could be from any movie, live action or animated. Cast: Dan Goldberg, Dan...

Ep.43 "The neutrinos are melting" The Best Disaster Scenario Debate 21.05.2020

Debaters.....This week WE DEBATE! On the show this week the cast pull from the current globally shared issues we are all experiencing and try and add a little comedic flair in hopes to steal a laugh or 2 during these crazy times. The Premise: The world has been turned on its head and disasters, certain pandemics and global chaos has started to happen. You're caught between a busted dam and a tidal...

#Ep.42 "WE ARE ROLLING PEOPLE" A Reel Talk On Directors, Movie Length and Philip Seymour Hoffman 14.05.2020

Welcome back to all things regular on the The Reel Debaters. We have ended our Covid Watch and are kicking things off this week with a Reel Talk that went hard in the paint. On this week's episode joining Micheal Petrow is cast members Danielle Kayahara and JD Renaud and returning guest audio/video professional and movie addict Rob Strachan. Rob and Micheal go over their love of David Fincher in a...

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