Previous Episodes

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal Petrow chews the fat with Costume Designer Heather Neale about getting into the costume department, finally being allowed out of the costume trailer, fitting Liam Neeson and his accent, her team of genius misfits that she would be lost without, how many versions of one costume there could be for just one character and tons more as we continue our ongoing series Manitobans Making Movies. Heather is kind, genuine and full of magical stories. She would also l...

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal Petrow, Martin Navarro and Jimmy Skinner welcome Director Ian Bawa to return and sit down in the virtual living room to squabble about the 24 hour time loop. Inspired by the comedy classic Groundhog Day (1993) the guys quarrel about what movie would they want to spend 24 hours in with the ability to do whatever they want...like the movie. Well and also slowly go insane in as well. Premise: Pick any movie that falls in the sports genre (SPORTS!!!!) and appl...

This week on The Reel Debaters Writer and Director Shawn Linden comes on the show with JImmy Skinner and Micheal Petrow to talk about his new film Hunter Hunter (2020) starring Devon Sawa, Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell and Nick Stahl. Shawn was grown in manitoba so you guessed it , this is another Manitobans Making Movies episode. This is easily one of the best movies of 2020 with a hard 93% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Spoiler alert! We do talk about the ending and give you ...

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin Navarro, Rob Strachan, Mark Cowell and Micheal Petrow go over their holiday watch lists, begrudgingly admit what reality television we watch and try to outwit, outplay and outlast each other as we pontificate and debate “If Survivor had a theme, what movie or television plot should that be” Oh, their were sound effects, we heard them, next time you will to. Premise: Spice up the reality TV show Survivor with a movie or tv plot. Create new challenges, idols...

This week on The Reel Debaters full cast Mark, Jimmy , Micheal, Rob and Martin all sit down to review the year that was 2020. Mark brings on a 13" friend to start the show, we go over our favourite debates, review our movies loves and flops of the year, make some big announcements that are long over due and micheal forgets to pick the debater of the year. Email us an idea for the show at thereeldebaters@gmail.com Follow us @reeldebaters on instagram and twitter

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal Petrow waxes poetic with Cinematographer Brad Crawford to talk about finding his voice in film, finding his place behind the camera , who influenced him, his nickname and the importance of good lighting on our series Manitobans Making Movies. The show loves Brad. We know you will too. 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 ...

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin Navarro and Micheal Petrow invite Charles Fernandes and Claudia Orellana from The Nerdgasm youtube show to the virtual living room to debate who we all feel would be the best Keanu Reeves Character to teach drivers ed, talk about Micheals Interview with Kevin Smith about Mooby's pop ups in Canada and figure out if Mads Mikkelsen is right for the replacement of Johhn Deep in the Fanastic Beasts Series. Premise: Pick your favorite Keanu Reeves character, argu...

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal Petrow waxes poetic with Roger Boyer to talk about him finding a passion in film making, who influenced him, what his creative process is and the rise of indigenous filmmaking in Canada on our series Manitobans Making Movies. The show loves Roger. We know you will too. 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 ...

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin Navarro and Micheal Petrow invite Sean Mcginity from Seangeek podcast and special guest producer, writer, musician and food network aficionado Rusty Matyas (The Waking Eyes, Imaginary Cities and The Sheepdogs) to our virtual zoom living room as we pontificate and debate “what does your life sound like if it had a soundtrack” Premise: Pick 4 moments from your life and add in some intro music, maybe a classic make out song or a gigantic symphony ending to you...

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin Navarro and Micheal Petrow invite Sean Mcginity from Seangeek podcast and special guest producer, writer, musician and food network aficionado Rusty Matyas (The Waking Eyes, Imaginary Cities and The Sheepdogs) to our virtual zoom living room as we pontificate and debate "what does your life sound like if it had a soundtrack" Premise: Pick 4 moments from your life and add in some intro music, maybe a classic make out song or a gigantic symphony ending to you...

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal Petrow and Mark Cowell sat down with Shelly Anthis to talk about her finding a passion in film making, extras casting, her mad baking skills and the responsibility she feels to always make sure each roll is casted with the most care on our series Manitobans Making Movies. The show loves Shelly. We know you will too. 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...

This week on The Reel Debaters Martin Navarro, Rob Strachan and Micheal Petrow welcome Mixologist Alex Black on the show. We open with best on screen performance of being drunk, break into a debate that forces us to make an entire alcoholic product around some of favorite movie characters and close with a professionals view of bartenders on screen. 4 out of 4 debaters on this show suggest a cocktail pairs nicely well listening. Follow us @reeldebaters on Twitter and Instagram Website: thereeld...

This week on The Reel Debaters Micheal sat down with Ian bawa to talk about his transition from law to film school, short film making, editing, working in manitoba film and his new project STRONG SON that debuted at TIFF 2020. 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 never miss a live show, contest or give away and don't forget to subscribe to t...

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

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…

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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/)

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...

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...

This is our first Live Episode The cast got to sit down with local podcasters and talk shop, argue about superpowers, cult films, and the price of action figures. Thanks to The Park Theatre, Thick and Sweaty, Kojb Films, and Witch Police Radio for putting it on Credits Executive Producer: Michael Petrow Producers: Martin Navarro Jimmy Skinner Guests: Chris Stanton Mark Cowell Recorded at: Panda Bear Studios Audio Engineering & Editing by Micheal Petrow The Reel Debaters P...