Shawn Levy Archives - Awesome Friday!

11 August 202411 August 2024

Podcast: A Quiet Place: Day One & Deadpool & Wolverine

Greetings Programs! We’re back after a month long hiatus and we’re excited to talk about two summer movies! Join us for discussions two different franchise third entries: A Quiet Place: Day One and the Marvel multiverse romp Deadpool & Wolverine.

Join us!

13 March 202213 March 2022

Podcast: West Side Story & The Adam Project

It’s Awesome Friday on a Sunday! This week we’re talking about West Side Story, which has just been released to Disney+, and the new Ryan Reynolds starring Netflix family action movie The Adam Project.

There are streaming links as well as our ratings after the jump. Join us!

10 October 202117 January 2022

Awesome Friday Movie Podcast: ‘Muppets Haunted Mansion’ & ‘There’s Someone Inside Your House’

Greetings programs! It’s Awesome Friday, on a Sunday, because it’s a state of mind and not a time or place. This week Simon and I are talking about Disney’s new Halloween special, Muppets Haunted Mansion and Netflix’s new teen slasher, There’s Someone Inside Your House.

25 September 20218 January 2022

Fantastic Fest Review: ‘There’s Someone Inside Your House’ is a solid teen slasher

Here’s a hot take: I love teen slasher movies. There is a wide range of quality in the genre, but mystery killer killing teens one by one is a genre that I almost always enjoy. There’s Someone Inside Your House is a solid entry in this genre, with some fun kills that will let you compare it to the classics, and a healthydose of Gen Z wokeness to make it feel more modern.

17 August 20218 January 2022

Review: ‘Free Guy’ is a love letter to gaming and just the dose of summer fun we’ve been waiting for

If there’s a film genre with an uneven history, it’s the video game movie. Sure, there are some good movies based on video games, but not many. Free Guy, the first big release from 20th Century Studios in a post-Disney acquisition world, posits that maybe the best way to make a video game movie is not to adapt a game directly at all.

Adapting instead of the gameplay and tropes of massively multiplayer online shooters like Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto Online, the film ends up being a love letter to gaming itself rather than any game specifically.