Greetings programs! This week, we dive head first into the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival. We’ve each seen a number of films, and we’re going to talk about a number of them, including Hundreds of Beavers, Birth/Rebirth, Satan Wants You, A Disturbance in the Force, With Love and a Major Organ, Aporia, Sympathy for the Devil, and River.
Join us!
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Greetings programs! It has been two years, almost to the day, since we relaunched the Awesome Friday Podcast! To celebrate that fact, we are joined by Rachel, and we talk about our favourite films from when the show has been running – that’s July 2021 to now. It was a very fun conversation to record, and we hope you enjoy it too!
We’d like to thank everyone who is listening or has listened or has thought about listening for helping us reach this milestone. We love you all!
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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, in which Nicolas Cage plays the role he was born to play: Nicolas Cage.
There are JustWatch powered streaming links to each film here on this page, and the episode is live wherever you listen to podcasts. Join us!
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It has been a hell of a year and a hell of a year for film. The second year of the ongoing worldwide pandemic has been a bit of a roller coaster, with wave after wave of COVID once changing the film landscape. Theatres re-opened, but people have only really gone back for the biggest blockbuster titles, and even then, the numbers are a bit soft.
That’s not to say that there hasn’t been many a literal ton of films this year, though. I set a new personal record, having seen nearly 180 films released in 2021, and let me tell you that most of them are good!
To break down my favourites a little more this year, I’ll be dividing things up into three lists, one for my favourite performers, one for my favourite films, and one for the best of the rest. There are navigation links at the bottom of each page to the others.
Without any further ado, let’s get started with my favourite performers of the year!
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This week will see the release of the new Sion Sono directed Nicolas Cage starring post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure thriller Prisoner of the Ghostland (see my Fantasia review here!) in theatres and on-demand. It’s a super weird film, and if you like weird Nicolas Cage, it probably has something for you.
Here are five more great Nicolas Cage performances in that same spirit and where you can buy, rent, or stream them from home.
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As we’ve previously established, Nicolas Cage is one of our most idiosyncratic performers and one of our last true movie stars. Sion Sono is a Japanese filmmaker known for his subversive and idiosyncratic sensibilities. So what do you get when these two meet? A bonkers film, that’s what.
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Nicolas Cage is something of an enigma. I don’t think that it is either surprising or a revelation to say that, but the man is one of the only true movie stars we currently have. He is known for his near-constant output as an actor, and for being willing to appear in just about anything. This volume of work is not always great (though it’s never exactly boring), but the one thing it accomplishes is that as a result we sometimes forget that he’s a really great actor.
In Pig, his latest film, he reminds us. Before I launch into this review, I should say this: Pig is one of my favourite movies of the year so far, and I firmly believe that you should see it as cold as possible.
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The presses have been offline for a while thanks to real life, but real life didn’t stop news from happening. Here are a few of the stores we found interesting or exciting while we were sleeping.
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There has been more than a few big news stories this week and I barely know where to begin. Let’s dive right in!
Mashup videos are a dime a dozen on the web but when they’re done right they can be pretty awesome. Here’s a great example of a mashup done right: a butt load of movie dance scenes set to _Uptown Funk_. Go ahead, just try to not love it.
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Nicolas Cage envers stops working. It seems like he puts out a film a month or so which is how you end up with everything from Oscar worthy outings to, well, you know. Hayden Christensen hasn’t done a movie in ages and when he does he gets mixed reviews. Does this seem like a match made in heaven to you? Then you should probably watch this trailer for Outcast.
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Oh man, and you thought the poster was amazing but he trailer leaves it behind. SEE WHAT I DID THERE?
Just look at it. It’s amazing. Nicholas Cage giving his Nicholas Cage Confused face as if to say “What letter does the list these people are on start with? Am _I_ on that list now?” Look at the road run into the sea and head toward a burning city! Look how confused _everyone_ looks!
This is the world we live in people. Nicholas Cage, an American Idol contestant, a TV famous guy, and two other people starring in the Hollywood adaptation of a best-selling Christian novel about the people left behind (aka, the people not good enough to get into heaven) when the rapture comes.
Amazing.
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