Season 2 Episodes

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Nov. 4, 2020

#63 The Reel Debaters Halloween Special 2020

This week on the show Micheal Petrow, Martin Navarro Jimmy Skinner and Guest Rhett Williams joins the cast for their annual Halloween special. We also honor Sir Sean Connery with our worst impressions and try and come up with new awards to hand out at the oscars. We went hard in the paint so heres the break down to move around and little and listen to what ever tickles your blood. 1.Death By Movie: what movie death would you want for yourselves 2.Super Horror mashup: What 2 directors would you want to hire for a super horror smash up 3.Best Francise Series And Why 4.Best Sequel To Stay On Story 5.Favorite Serial Killer Inspired Character 6.Best And Worst Horror Remake 7.Favortite Final Girl 8.Would you rather? Follow us @reeldebaters on Twitter and Instagram Website: thereeldebaters.ca Email us an idea for the show at thereeldebaters@gmail.com
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Oct. 28, 2020

#62 Special Features: Filmmaker Ben Williams

This week Micheal Petrow from The Reel Debaters sat down with Manitoba film professional Ben Williams. We could tell you what Ben does but this bio below is way better and we talked about almost all of this but MOSTLY his new project The 48 Film fest, a canadian wide film festival coming in 2021 that celebrates movies made in 48 hours. SUCH.A.GOOD.GUY Ben Williams is the new Director for the The 48 Film Festival Inc. formed in April 2020. For the last six years he served as the Director of Development and Marketing and Production Centre Director of the artistic, development and operational leaders for the Winnipeg Film Group. Ben has studied digital filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Manhattan. For over 15 years, he has worked in digital media studios in NYC, Chicago and Shanghai and has freelanced as a video editor in the U.S. and Canada. Most notably, he worked for JWT/New York in the broadcast and entertainment division and for Wieden+Kennedy in Shanghai on an award winning…
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Oct. 21, 2020

#Ep.61 "Oh now Wally, give me a bag of that effin pig feed" The Best Covid Roommate Debate

This week on the show: shirt stains, what avatar would we would be if we could play in The Oasis from Ready Player One and Jimmy Skinner, Micheal Petrow, Martin Navvaro and Rob Strachan question who they would want to live with for 2 weeks if they had to quarintine with Covid. A debate inspired by Misery (1990) Follow us @reeldebaters on Twitter and Instagram Website: thereeldebaters.ca Email us an idea for the show at thereeldebaters@gmail.com
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Oct. 9, 2020

#Ep.60 "You Shall Not Pass" The Best Hobbit Recasting Debate

This week on The Reel Debaters we have movies with AM radio, who punches Rick Morranis, movie props to hang in the house, Micheal gets preachy about Star Wars marketing, Shredder is now called Papa Shreddy according to Jimmy, what did we watch this week and a debate about recasting The Hobbit with any 4 other human movie characters to do the long walk to Mordor Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters Send us your thoughts/thereeldebaters@gmail.com We are supported by: Proper Designwor...
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Sept. 30, 2020

Ep.59 Cult Movie Night At The Park Theatre

This week on The Reel Debaters we go live from [The Park Theatre](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiWuYHjmpLsAhUCGc0KHelUDv0QFjAAegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myparktheatre.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0M3sYR8O4KmacAJnVd1dVk) for Cult Movie Night #2 Movie of the night: Cemetery Man (1994) directed Michele Soavi, starring Rupert Everett,Francois Hadji-Lazaro and Ana Falchi Jimmy Skinner, Micheal Petrow and Cory Thomas give their take on the script, act...
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Sept. 23, 2020

#Ep.58 "With great power comes great responsibility" The Best Superhero Debate

This week on The Reel Debaters Rob Strachan tells us how he likes his junk food, Micheal Petrow tries to explain TENET(2020) with a spoiler alert but it'll help you in the end, Mark Cowell thinks the empire had the right to blow up Alderaan in Star Wars, Martin Navarro thinks we need to know what happened to Virgil Kent before we meet him in the Usual Suspects (1995) and we build our own super heroes and try to pitch them to a movie studio as we question the best super power Twitter @reeldebate...
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Sept. 16, 2020

#Ep.57 "What women want?" A Reel Talk On Love In Cinema

This week on The Reel Debaters Michael Petrow and Mark Cowell sit down with Chrissy Latimer(Marks partner) and Jackie Armstrong and have a fire side chat to get a better idea of what women want in a leading man on screen, romantic tropes, real life comparisons and dickens cider in a follow up to our valentines special End credit trailer is brought to you by was inspired by [Dickins Cider](https://www.dickinscidercompany.com) New debates coming out September 23rd and 30th. Apologies for the delay...
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Sept. 9, 2020

#56 Special Features: Make Up Artist Doug Morrow #2

This week on The Reel Debaters Makeup Artist Doug Morrow does round 2 with Micheal Petrow and Jimmy Skinner live from his studio. They go over the evolution of its use in movies, we quiz his eye for what he likes and we asked him to go over some of makeup heavy films and find out how they do what they do Wanna send us your opinion on this week's episode? Hit up our voicemail and drop us a comment. RD voicemail Events: Housekeeping Like being in the know? Hate FOMO? Follow us online below to ...
Guest: Doug Morrow
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Sept. 2, 2020

#55 Special Features: Director Sean Garrity

This week on the show as part of our home town series "Manitobans Making Movies" writer, director and owner of Bed Bug Films Sean Garrity came on to tell us about his life before film, what got him behind the camera and his collection of his work ending with his most recent film "I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight" (if you are reading this on release day its still in theatres ...GO SEE THIS MOVIE, ITS FANTASTIC) Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters Send us your thoughts and make us laugh and we will read it on air thereeldebaters@gmail.com [Click here to give us a review](https://ratethispodcast.com/reeldebaters) We are supported by: [Proper Designworks](https://www.instagram.com/properdesignworks/?hl=en). For all your custom embroidery and clothing needs. [Bodegoes ](https://www.bodegoes.com/old-market-square/)
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Aug. 26, 2020

Ep.54 Cult movie night live from The Park Theatre

This week on The Reel Debaters we get to kick off our live series from the best live event venue in Canada, The Park Theatre. This series is dedicated to learning more about what makes cult movies so popular and the followings they have collected over the years. Movie of the night: Zombie (1979) directed by Lucio Fulci , staring Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson and Al Cliver. Listen to us give our take on script, acting, directing and kills scenes and question its cult relevance Follo...
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Aug. 19, 2020

Ep.53 "I'm king of the world" The Best Loved Film Debate

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin tells us about Titanic, Jimmy chews the fat on Ferris Bueller, Micheal and Forrest Gump have words and Rob and American Beauty get angry as we question "what globally loved movie is just the worst" and what movies make us cry. Tune in for a special end credit scene where we talk about a potential study on cat hair. None of the cats in the apartment where this was shot would ever be harmed. What movie makes us cry 04:00 What globally loved movie is just th...
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Aug. 12, 2020

#Ep.52 "Beautiful maidens and Magical Prophecies", A Reel Talk on Crappy Movies and Opening Scenes

This week on The Reel Debaters Rob is afraid of Micheal's yoga shorts, shirtless cheese burger eating in the movie theatre, Mcdonald's new donuts, what movie has a great opening scene and we question "whats the worst movie that should be loved" Cast: Jimmy Skinner, Martin Navarro, Micheal Petrow and Rob Strachan Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a review](https://ratethispodcast.com/reeldebaters) We are supported by: [Proper Designworks](https://www.insta...
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Aug. 5, 2020

#Ep.51 "Good Morning Vietnam" The Best Radio Show Debate

This week The Reel Debaters host the genius behind the informative and wicked smart podcast The Couch Potatoes, hosts Brett Mcgarry and Jeff Braun. Mark clarifies who went down Mariannas Trench, my apartment inspires Brett to buy more art, Jeff went to the movies in real life and this week we question what movie character should have their own radio show. Cast: Mark Cowell and Micheal Petrow Tune in for a end credits trailer that would marvel any avengers film. ***apologies for the backgroun...
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July 29, 2020

#Ep.50 "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight" The Bad Guy Apprentice Debate

This week on The Reel Debaters James Beaver shits on sewer people, Jimmy tells Micheal he's wrong a lot, Martin thinks the best toilets are in Tokyo and we ask the questions if you could work for any bad guy as an apprentice who would it be and why and if 2020 was a movie , what would it be about...kinda of. Cast: Jimmy Skinner, Martin Navarro, Micheal Petrow and James Beaver Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a review](https://ratethispodcast.com/reeldebate...
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July 22, 2020

#Ep.49 "High school - those are your prime suffering years" The Best Highschool Debate

This week on The Reel Debsters we talk about what Danny Devito in The Trashman and the green bastard have in common, is Chris Hemsworth right for the role of Hulk Hogan and debate what highschool we would want to go to from any movie. In the living room are special guests James Beaver from Beaver Does Movies podcast and Sean and Todd Miginity from The Seangeek Podcast. Truly genuine debaters. Download them today...do it now! Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give u...
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July 15, 2020

#48 Special Features: Director Simon Jaynes

This week on The Reel Debaters owner of Boogaloo Films and fillmmaker Simon Jaynes talks to us on our series "Manitobans Making Movies" about the process of making a documentary and his new film about about extreme ice racing titled "No Road Blocks Just Detours". Simon is a technical wizard with all the fun toys and we get into VFX and post production tactics as well. To contact Boogaloo Films click [here](http://boogaloofilm.com/in-production) Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a review](https://ratethispodcast.com/reeldebaters) We are supported by: [Proper Designworks](https://www.instagram.com/properdesignworks/?hl=en). For all your custom embroidery and clothing needs.
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July 9, 2020

#47 Special Features: Tripwire Media and Doug Darling

This week on The Reel Debaters Doug Darling from Tripwire Media Group pulls up a chair in the living room with Mark Cowell and Micheal Petrow for our series "Manitobans Making Movies" ( he confirmed it on this episode) about the science of storytelling and working in video and animation in a dump truck load of different ways. Click on [Tripwire Media Group](https://www.tripwiremedia.com) for more info Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a review](https://rate...
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July 1, 2020

#Ep 46. "Eat Floor, High Fibre" A Reel Talk About Batman, Zombies and Joel Schumacher

This week on the show we talk about our favourite Joel Schumacher and Ian Holm films, Flash and the casting of Micheal Keaton as Batman, how would we fair in a zombie apocalypse and we play "who would win in a fight" In the living room this week is Rob Strachan and Jason Bret Fallman and live from Vancouver Martin Navarro. Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a review](https://ratethispodcast.com/reeldebaters) We are supported by: [Proper Designworks](https:/...
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June 4, 2020

#Ep.45 "Organic and Biometric Moving Parts" A Reel Talk On Anime, The Justice League and Movie Theaters After Covid

This week on The Reel Debaters we start off with Martin learned Japanese in university just to better understand anime, will the Justice league directors cut dress to impress, the dropping of the tenet trailer on fortnite and what we think movie theatre life will be life when we get to go back **apologies for the call waiting, the cops were calling to tell me my car had been found. I sure hope "dirty mike and the boys didn't turn it into a soup kitchen" Cast: Martin Navarro, Micheal Petrow and...
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May 28, 2020

#Ep.44 "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli" The Best Last Meal Debate

Welcome to the last meal The Reel Debaters ever eat. Boy are we gluttons. Premise: You've committed a capital crime and have been sent to death row. Its time for your last meal. What famous meal(s) from the movies are you consuming before you leave this planet and who is your chef de cuisine. Rules: Your food stuffs and chef could be from any movie, live action or animated. Cast: Dan Goldberg, Danielle Kayahara, Chris Stanton and Micheal Petrow Twitter @reeldebaters Instagram @reeldebaters [Click here to give us a review](https://ratethispodcast.com/reeldebaters) We are supported by: [Proper Designworks](https://www.instagram.com/properdesignworks/?hl=en). For all your custom embroidery and clothing needs.
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May 21, 2020

Ep.43 "The neutrinos are melting" The Best Disaster Scenario Debate

Debaters.....This week WE DEBATE! On the show this week the cast pull from the current globally shared issues we are all experiencing and try and add a little comedic flair in hopes to steal a laugh or 2 during these crazy times. The Premise: The world has been turned on its head and disasters, certain pandemics and global chaos has started to happen. You're caught between a busted dam and a tidal wave and you need some serious rescuing say from a ....a famous disaster movie character to bring...
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May 13, 2020

#Ep.42 "WE ARE ROLLING PEOPLE" A Reel Talk On Directors, Movie Length and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Welcome back to all things regular on the The Reel Debaters. We have ended our Covid Watch and are kicking things off this week with a Reel Talk that went hard in the paint. On this week's episode joining Micheal Petrow is cast members Danielle Kayahara and JD Renaud and returning guest audio/video professional and movie addict Rob Strachan. Rob and Micheal go over their love of David Fincher in a "Directors Centrefold", Danielle lets us know what the Lorena Bobbitt Doc is all about and how lon...
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May 6, 2020

#41 Covid Watch #3

This week, the cast ponders with guest(s) Jason Bret Falman about watching Disney when Disney isn’t supporting their staff. Gin from the Naked Bones asks if directors understand the task of taking on books that have huge followings. Media professionals Doug and Denise Darling talk about how they manage the watching habits of their 2 daughters while parenting in a pandemic Also, this is our last Covid Watch. The show will be returning to its original format . We thank you for your patien...
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April 22, 2020

Ep. 40 Covid Watch #2

This week, the cast (due to the ever-changing times) has put their format on temporary hold to continue with COVID Watch. We've gone virtual. This week, the cast muses over horror movie cliches, Marvel's new direction with the hold on production, who else was up for Tim Burton's Batman, the One World Together concert, and should Sesame Street and COVID Credits Executive Producer: Michael Petrow Producers: Jimmy Skinner Guests: Mark Cowell, Chris Stanton Recorded at: Panda Bear Stu...
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