About to Review

Year end spectacular with Mike Ward and Tim Hall! We discuss the good, bad, and ugly films of 2018!

Two special guests and 3 new movie reviews! Fresh out of a screening of “Aquaman”, Tim Hall (@PeoplesCritic) and Jessica O’Brien (JdObrien_) join the studio as we review “Mortal Engines”, […]

Tim Hall (@PeoplesCritic) joins the show via Skype for this late night episode which has reviews for “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, “ROMA”, and “Mary Poppins Returns”. Ranging from the hyper […]

Solo show! My 3 special guest this week are me, myself, and I. We have a great conversation talking about the new production of "In the Heights" at the Seattle Repertory Theater, and then I review the new zombie Christmas musical "Anna and the Apocalypse"!

It is time once again for the annual #NoShameNovember episode! This year I have a very special guest joining the show: Adal Rifai (@AdalRifai) from “Hello From The Magic Tavern”! We attempt to not feel shame about our choices, but that does not always work out.

The premise of the #NoShameNovember episode is to talk about the movies, TV shows, music (or food), that we love, even though we do not always admit it! Even though we try not cast, or feel for our choices, each of definitely roasted the other person a few times, but hey, that is what friends are for.

Adal Rifai is a comedian, Chicago improv legend, podcaster, and professor, and was gracious enough to spend time in his busy schedule to be a guest on this episode. He is always juggling about 10 different projects, and I have included links below to some of the big ones!

* “Hello from the Magic Tavern” podcast ->Subscribe here on Apple Podcasts and check out the website: Earwolf.com/Tavern

* “Hey Riddle Riddle” podcast -> Subscribe here on Apple Podcasts and check out the website: Art19.com/Riddle

* “Whirled News Tonight” improv show -> Check out the website: iOImprov.com/WhirledNews

Thank you Adal for making the time, this was a great episode!

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Timecode breakdown:

0m:00s – 2m:45s: Intro to the show

2m:45s – 37m:00s: Getting to know you: Adal Rifai 

Discussion of our #NoShameNovember choices, round robin style

37m:00s – 44m:45s: Adal’s first choice are two pop musicians that he has seen in concert (much to my surprise)

44m:45s – 52m:50s: My first pick is an entire genre of TV shows that I watch hours of every week: Baking/ cooking competition shows

52m:50s – 58m:30s: Adal’s second pick are two competition reality TV shows that feel like they have been on the air for 50 years

58m:30s – 1h:03m: My second pick is an action comedy/ spoof from 2003 that is a sequel to a reboot of a TV franchise about badass women spies

1h:03m – 1h:10m: Adal’s last pick is a seafood restaurant chain that I have not even seen in probably 20 years

1h:10m – 1h:19m: My last pick is another genre choice, that mainly have to do with films like “Conan the Barbarian/ Destroyer”, “Red Sonja”, “Gladiator”, “300” and more

1h:19m – 1h:20m: Adal’s honorable mention is a hilarious western with Jackie Chan & Owen Wilson

* 1h:20m- 1h:24m: My honorable mentions are two phone games involving Candy and Dots

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Matt Oakes from Silver Screen Riot is back in the studio to review three new films on this weeks episode, "Green Book", Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindelwald", and "Creed 2"! Make sure to check out Matt's site to see all of the reviews and interviews he has done!

Tim Hall (@PeoplesCritic) is back in the studio as we review four new movies which are in theaters now! Reviews include "The Girl in the Spider's Web", "The Grinch", "Widows" and "Overlord".

I took a trip up north to Vancouver, British Columbia, to cover the 2018 Vancouver Asian Film Festival for the first time! On this episode I talk about my favorite films, plus I had the opportunity to interview several people involved in the festival!

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