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Season 1

Feb. 3, 2021

#76 Special Features: Costume Designer Heather Neale

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, ...

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Jan. 27, 2021

Ep.75 "Punxsutawney Phil" The Best Groundhog Day Debate

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 class...

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Jan. 20, 2021

#74 Special Features: Director Shawn Linden

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 a...

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Jan. 13, 2021

#Ep.73 "Outwit, Outlast, Outplay" The Best Movie Themed Survivor Deba…

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 ot...

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Jan. 7, 2021

#72 The Reel Debaters Year In Review 2021

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 ...

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Dec. 30, 2020

#71 Special Features: Cinematographer Brad Crawford

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...

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Dec. 23, 2020

Ep.70 "You're sayin' the FBI's gonna pay me to learn to surf?" Best K…

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...

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Dec. 17, 2020

#69 Special Features: Director Roger Boyer

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...

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Dec. 8, 2020

Ep 68" I will now sell 5 copies of "The Three Ep's" by The Beta Band"…

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 Cit...

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Dec. 2, 2020

Ep 67 " I will now sell 5 copies of "The Three Ep's" by The Beta Band…

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 Ci...

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Nov. 27, 2020

#66 Special Features: Extras Casting Director Shelly Anthis

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 ma...

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Nov. 18, 2020

#Ep. 65 "Let us put more of this liquid in our bodies" The Best Cockt…

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 e...

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Nov. 11, 2020

#64 Special Features: Director Ian Bawa

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...

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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 …

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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 th…

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Oct. 21, 2020

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

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 wi...

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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,...

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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.myparkthe...

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Sept. 23, 2020

#Ep.58 "With great power comes great responsibility" The Best Superhe…

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 b...

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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...

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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…

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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 following...

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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 ...

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Aug. 12, 2020

#Ep.52 "Beautiful maidens and Magical Prophecies", A Reel Talk on Cra…

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 th...

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