Awesome Friday Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Greetings programs! This week on the show, we're talking about two new-to-home video releases. First up, Speak No Evil is a remake of a 2022 Danish film starring James McAvoy. Then we dive into the world of The Wild Robot, a lovely new film from Dreamworks Animation starring the vocal talents of Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, and more!

BONUS CONTENT:     

In this episode of your bonus show, we're talking about animated films inspired by our coverage of The Wild Robot on our main show this week. What are your top three animated films of the 2020s? We'd love to hear!  Patreon supporters get a weekly bonus episode, and patronage starts at just $2 CAD per month.  We think that's a steal!  
Listen to this week's bonus episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-20th-of-114406211

EPISODE HOMEPAGE:     

As always, follow this link to this week's episode homepage.  There, you'll find JustWatch-powered links that will tell you where you can buy, rent, or stream both of these movies.  Use those links and help us keep the lights on around here.  We also post these links for every film we cover, so search around for movies you like!
Episode Homepage: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/10/podcast-speak-no-evil-the-wild-robot/

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Greetings programs!  This week on the show, we're looking at the last of our VIFF 2024 coverage with a discussion of Guy Maddin's surreal political satire Rumours and, following that, a look at the new Donal Trump biopic The Apprentice.  Both films are challenging to the viewer, for entirely different reasons, and we hope you enjoy the conversation.

BONUS CONTENT:     

This week on your bonus show, Simon asks about the horror movies that get under our skin and make us squirm in our seats, and then Matthew asks about our favourite horror TV series. All of our Patreon supporters get access to the bonus episodes, and support starts at just $2 CAD per month!
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-14th-tv-114009414

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Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/10/podcast-rumours-the-apprentice/

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This week on the show we're talking about Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw The TV Glow and Christy Hall's Daddio.  Both Singluar visions from their creator, but do they both work?  Join us to find out!

BONUS CONTENT:     

This week's patron bonus show sees Simon ask about the era of AA action movie video game adaptations, and what recent movies we'd like to get that treatment, and Matthew asks for our two three directorial first features.  Fun fact: both of these questions are inspired by a recent re-watch of Steven Spielberg's first feature, Duel. 

As always all patrons get access to the bonus show, and patronage starts at just $2 Canadian per month.  We hope you joinus!
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-23rd-bonus-106755557

EPISODE HOMEPAGE:     

This week's episode homepage has JustWatch powered links to everywhere you can steam, or digital buy or rent each of this weeks movies.  The links update based on the films availability whereever you are, so check back often!
Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2024/06/podcast-i-saw-the-tv-glow-daddio/

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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, Sonic Cinema
• Craig McKenzie, KneelBeforBlog.co.uk
• Dakota Arsenault, Contra Zoom Pod
• Don Shanahan, 25 Years Later
• Jay Cluitt, Life vs Film, Deep Blue Sea The Podcast, The LAMB
• Jeff Bulmer, Classic Movies Live!
• Michael Thomas, The Novice Cinephile
• MovieRob, MovieRob, The MovieRob Minute Podcast
• Rachel Ho, Freelance Critic, Contra Zoom Pod
• Richard Kirkham, Kirkham Movie a Day, The LAMB
• Shaurya Chawla, YouTube
• Thomas Stoneham-Judge, ThisIsForReel.com
• YL Koushik, Beta Critic

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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 the consensus top ten, anda. complete list of the more than fifty friends who contributed their own top ten lists. There is also a list of over 30 podcast networks you can find us on: https://awesomefriday.ca/2022/07/podcast-marvel-extravaganza/

A bonus episode is also coming soon, featuring audio clips from some of our friends detailing their favourite MCU films; look for that shortly. 

Join us!

There will also be a bonus episode coming soon with audio clips from our friends about their favourite MCU entries. Look for that soon!

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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:

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• Awesome Friday on Stitcher

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!

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SHOW LINKS:

• Awesome Friday on Apple Podcasts
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• 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

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!

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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.

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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, 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. 

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SHOW LINKS:

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• Awesome Friday on iHeartRadio
• Awesome Friday on Overcast
• Awesome Friday on Spotify
• Awesome Friday on Stitcher

Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight. 

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. 

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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.