Have you ever seen a movie so bad that you decide you had to show all your friends and loved ones so they can experience the same negative experience that you have suffered through. Comedians JP Fournier and Shawn Gramiak have taken sharing cinematic nasties to a whole new level. Each week they and their guest choose a movie for the other to watch, exploring the dark, scary, confusing, and sometimes pathetic world of bad movies. They are The Movie Jerks.
Kyle Chuka is back for our annual preview of the upcoming Edmonton International Film Festival (http://www.edmontonfilmfest.com/). This time we take a look first time independent films that start off some successful careers.
Check out the Movie Jerks Artist Of The Month: Danielle Dayton "Spider Blues"
With the release of "It: Chapter 2" The Movie Jerks decided to take a look at some of the less talked about Stephen King films. Director Galen W.E. Pendleton (Truckstop Bloodsuckers) joins JP and Shawn once again to look back into the past King films.
Check out the artist of the month, Danielle Dayton and her new single "Spider Blues"
Author Chris Vander Kaay (Anatomy of Fear: Conversations with Cult, Horror, and Science Fiction Directors) is back with a new fiction book, "Bones Beneath the Pale (the Belle City Chronicles Book 1)". Together with The Movie Jerks, JP and Shawn they delve into the geek/nerd world of math based movies.
Check out our new artist of the month, Danielle Dayton and her brand new single (out Sept 8th) "Spider Blues"
In light of Universal Studios canceling the theatrical release of "The Hunt", Kevin Alexander joins JP and Shawn and picks movies with death games as his Mystery Movie Topic.
Check out our featured artist of the month, Rebecca Lappa's new single "Can't Be Tamed"
Candice Ryan is back. She takes on Alien Invasion films and tells Jp and Shawn tales of her horror-loving devil child.
Don't forget to check out this month's Artist Of The Month Rebecca Lappa's new single "Can't Be Tamed"
With barely 4 hours of sleep, coming from a Fringe preview performance of his two shows ("Marcos" and "Walk this Que"), JP Fournier and Shawn Gramiak found 20 mystery movies meant to keep Marcus Ryan awake, before he had to rush to another two Stand Up comedy shows that night. As fate intervened, the movie picked kept him awake, and then some. (https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/)
Joses Martin joins the Jerks updating us on the upcoming show coming to The Grindstone Theater https://www.grindstonetheatre.ca/ for the 2019 Edmonton Fringe https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/. We take a look at non-Disney cartoons and end up watching a 2019 release, so... spoiler alerts for the second half of the episode.
Check out the new single from our Artist Of The Month for the month of July. Here's Rebecca Lappa's "Can't Be Tamed"
We are joined by actor Chris W Cook (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5393318/) as he tells about working with Liam Neesen on "Cold Pursuit". Then we all tackle the topic of old man action films and end up picking not a film with an old action hero, but a movie that is made for a special type of old man, the infamous "Hard Ticket To Hawaii".
Make sure you check out this month's featured artist, Carter & The Capitals and their single "Good Try"
For our 350th episode, Jp Fournier and Shawn Gramiak invited Paul Sveen, Comedian and author of "The Angel's Claw" https://www.amazon.ca/Angels-Claw-isnt-Near-Were-ebook/dp/B01I1SSRD4 to talk about his next novel and World War 2 films. The episode is chock-full with incredible stories, inquisitive information, hilarious humor, and Kombucha.
Don't forget to check out our artist of the month, Carter & The Capitals and their single "Good Try"
