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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 our other content. SUPPORT:         We want to say thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.    Patreon    Ko-Fi CONNECT WITH US:      Matthew on Twitter: @SmatthewAF Simon on Twitter: @TemporaryPen Home:   AwesomeFriday.ca Awesome Friday on Twitter: @AwesomeFridayCa    Awesome Friday on Facebook: Awesome Friday Awesome Friday on Instagram: @AwesomeFridayCa AwesomeFriday 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:      Matthew on Twitter: @SmatthewAF Simon on Twitter: @TemporaryPen Home:   AwesomeFriday.ca Awesome Friday on Twitter: @AwesomeFridayCa    Awesome Friday on Facebook: Awesome Friday Awesome Friday on Instagram: @AwesomeFridayCa AwesomeFriday on YouTube: Awesome Friday Email Awesome Friday: Contact Us SHOW LINKS: Awesome Friday on Apple Podcasts Awesome Friday on Amazon Music Awesome Friday on Deezer Awesome Friday on Goodpods Awesome Friday on Google Podcasts Awesome Friday on iHeartRadio Awesome Friday on Overcast Awesome Friday on Spotify Awesome Friday on Stitcher Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight. 

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.caCONNECT WITH US:      Matthew on Twitter: @SmatthewAF Simon on Twitter: @TemporaryPen Home:   AwesomeFriday.ca Awesome Friday on Twitter: @AwesomeFridayCa    Awesome Friday on Facebook: Awesome Friday Awesome Friday on Instagram: @AwesomeFridayCa AwesomeFriday on YouTube: Awesome Friday Email Awesome Friday: Contact Us SUPPORT:             Patreon    Ko-Fi

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 those into the show. Well, we didn’t get one from everyone, but we did get a level of response that made that plan a little untenable. So we used them to build this special bonus episode.We’d very much like to thank everyone who contributed to the project and to this episode specifically. It has been a lot of fun and really rewarding to see our community come together.We’re going to start with Simon, and I speaking about our number one Marvel movies from our recent episode and then jump right into our friends speaking about theirs. We hope you enjoy it.THIS EPISODE FEATURES: Austin Belzer, AustinBMedia Brian Skutle, Soni

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 began. Last year we covered the Disney+ series Loki and the film Black Widow. We decided to make an event of it, so this is a super-sized episode. Not only do we discuss the new Disney+ series Ms Marvel and the new film Thor: Love & Thunder, but we also break down both Simon and my MCU top ten lists, and then we asked over fifty of our friends to contribute to a consensus top ten list. That's right, the top ten MCU entries as decided by over fifty people.Visit this episode's homepage for streaming links powered by JustWatch for both of the new entries we discussed, a breakdown of the methodology used to determine t

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 love for gaming again. Enjoy!Visit us at this episode homepage for this and all of our other content: CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: <https://awesomefriday.ca>        Twitter: <https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca>            Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeFriday>            Instagram: <https://instagram.com/awesomefridayca/>            YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbgpYeyK4b_JH7H8P8INKA>            Email: <https://awesomefriday.ca/contact-us/>            SUPPORT:             Patreon: <http://patreon.com/mcsimpson>            Ko-Fi: <https://ko-fi.c

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 scripted, so you can read along if you please! Bonus article!This week, I’m trying to put into words the greatness of a new music-based block matching game called ‘Red White Yellow Cruising’ on the Nintendo Switch. You can find a full transcript of this episode, as well as all of our other content, on this episode's homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/07/games-red-white-yellow-cruising/Enjoy!CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: <https://awesomefriday.ca>        Twitter: <https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca>            Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeFriday>            Instagram: <http

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 talking about Stranger Things 4, how it holds up against the previous seasons, and whether Simon should would it (he hasn’t!). There are streaming links powered by JustWatch as well as all of our other content, and everywhere you can listen to our show at this episodes homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/07/podcast-marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-stranger-things-4/ Join us!SUPPORT:            We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform

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 the Nixon Watergate tapes and the idealistic journalist she brings the story to.I sat down with Dan on Zoom a few weeks ago and had a great conversation. You can listen to it here on this page or anywhere you listen to podcasts. I hope you enjoy it!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/interview-director-dan-mirvish/SUPPORT:           We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like,

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-sea-beast--obi-wan-kenobi/ Join us!SUPPORT:           We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Patreon: http://patreon.com/mcsimpson            Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/matthewsimpson      CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca        Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca            Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Awesome

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 star Cooper Raiff and co-starring Dakota Johnson, now released on AppleTV+. There are streaming links powered by JustWatch -as well as our ratings and all of our other content- on this episode's homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/06/podcast-spiderhead--cha-cha-real-smooth/Join us!SUPPORT:           We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Patreon

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 luckily our friend Rachel Ho was able to join me in his place. Rachel is an award-winning critic based out of Toronto; she co-hosts the podcast Contra Zoom and writes for Exclaim, POV Magazine, and That Shelf. This episode was a blast to record, and we hope you enjoy it!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-hustle-the-phantom-of-the-open/ Join us!SUPPORT:            We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear,

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.There are streaming links powered by JustWatch along with all of our other coverage of these films and more at this episode's homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/06/podcast-the-righteous-top-gun-maverick/Join us!SUPPORT:            We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi. Patreon: http://patreon.com/mcsimpson            Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/matthew

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, arrive in cinemas nearly a year after its premiere at least year Fantasia Festival. Grappling with themes of faith and guilt, The Righteous stars a who’s who of Canadian talent including O’Brien himself, Henry Czerny, Mimi Kuzyk, and Nygel Bennet.  It also picked up three Canadian Screen Award nominations this year including best original screenplay and best supporting actor for O’Brien himself.I sat down with Mark this week on Zoom to talk about the film.  You can find links to our prior coverage of the movie, as well as streaming links, and all of our other content at this episode's homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/

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 Witch 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 podcasts, and there are links to both titles wherever they are streaming powered by JustWatch –as well as all our other content– on this episode's homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/05/podcast-rrr-northman/Join us!We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight.CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: https://awesomefrida

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 welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight.CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca        Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca            Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeFriday            Instagram: https://instagram.com/awesomefridayca/            YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbgpYe

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://awesomefriday.ca/2022/05/make-remake-zero-hour-airplane/Join us! We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight.CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca        Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca            Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeFriday            Instagram: https://instagram.com/awesome

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/interview-director-emerson-moore/CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca        Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca            Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeFriday            Instagram: https://instagram.com/awesomefridayca/            YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbgpYeyK4b_JH7H8P8INKA            Email: https://awesomefriday.ca/contact-us/            SUPPORT:             Patreon: http://patreon.com/mcsimpson            Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/matthewsimpson      SHOW LINKS: Awesome Friday on Apple Podcasts Awesome Friday on Amazon Music Awesome Friday on Deezer Awesome F

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 homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/05/podcast-petite-maman-doctor-strange/  We want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca        Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca            Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeFriday            Instagram: https://instagram.com/awesomefridayca/       

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 want to say welcome and thanks for listening to all our listeners, new and old; we appreciate every one of you. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a like, review, and subscribe on your podcasting platform of choice, and if you can spare a few bucks, you could support us via Patreon or Ko-Fi.Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight.CONNECT WITH US:        Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca        Twitter: https://twitter.com/awesomefridayca            Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeFriday            Instagram: https://instagram.com/awesomefridayca/            YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/chan