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I Have Some Notes

I Have Some Noteswww.ihavesomenotes.com
Join Liam Creswick, Gregg Beever, and Scott C. Bourgeois as they examine Hollywood’s most mediocre movies and attempt to rewrite a better film. How could the Man of Steel be less of a Man of Heel? What could Ghostbusters II have done to make bustin’ feel good again? What could have made Star Trek: Generations a film for a…generation? All these answers and more on I HAVE SOME NOTES!
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Episodes

Jurassic World

The dino park is open! The exhibits are amazing, the patrons are having a great time and everything seems like its going great when doggonit! Another dinosaur escapes in a surprisingly stupid way. Well, shoot, we better get Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard to wrangle up those rascals. Join Colin, Gregg, Scott and Anita as they try to refinish a movie that basically made all the money. But, hey, what do audiences know, right?

Jun 19, 20171 hr 3 minEp. 26

Side Notes - Upgrades

Achievement Unlocked: Microphones! You have all been loyal troopers listening to our show despite it's rather average audio quality. Well, dear listener, get ready to have your loyalty rewarded with BETTER THAN AVERAGE SOUND*! Oh, and we also talk about Wonder Woman n'stuff. *Sound quality not guaranteed, may not be available in your area, check with your doctor to see if Sound Quality is right for you.

Jun 11, 201725 minEp. 25

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

This month we're wading into the rebellious waters of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. A controversial pick, to be sure, a lot of you love this movie, but that doesn't mean we can tighten the screws a little bit. Plus comedian Liam Creswick joins the cast, and that alone is worth the price of admission. The price is free, by the way, cause we're a podcast. Making money in radio is for chumps! Where was I? Oh yes, the Star War. We examine the which candy the pips on Tarkin's uniform most resemble, l...

May 22, 20171 hr 7 minEp. 24

Side Notes - Just Say F**k!

Comedian Liam Creswick joins the cast as we discuss what we've been watching this past month, telling Marvel to please just say f**k or don't in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Gregg asks that you repeatedly watch the fantastic reboot of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 so Netflix will pick it up for a second season. The Void is Scott's choice for a horror movie that has that Thing thing, and Anita recommends singing along with…Sing! A Dreamworks animated feature starring Matthew McConaughey. Our ne...

May 14, 201723 minEp. 23

Passengers

Okay, you're Chris Pratt, you've accidentally woken from stasis on an interstellar cruise ship bound for a planet 90 years away and you'll die of old age before it ever arrives. Faced with unending loneliness do you: a) attempt to repair your stasis pod, b) play Dance, Dance Revolution for 60 years, c) stalk and then kidnap Jennifer Lawerence by awakening her from her stasis tube, dooming her to your own sorry fate in the process. Well, my friends, the choice is surprisingly clear in Columbia Pi...

Apr 24, 20171 hr 3 minEp. 22

Side Notes - White as a Ghost in the Shell

Our podcast foursome are back with more fantastic movie and TV recommendation, the fantastic four…you might call them. In this month's edition Gregg laments cueing up Josh Trank's super hero mess; Scott insists everyone immediately watch John Wick & John Wick: Chapter 2 if they have not done so already; Colin finds the pitch is far from perfect in Pitch Perfect 2, and guest Anita C. Bourgeois tells us about librarians. Following that we a chat about floppity-flop Ghost in the Shell, in which...

Apr 12, 201732 minEp. 21

Alien 3

Of the many praises we can shower on the Alien movies, Alien 3 is certainly the one with the highest shaved head count. Colin and Gregg are joined by now I Have Some Notes regulars Scott C. Bourgeois and Erin Beever talk about the thirdest movie in the Alien series. They discuss the plight of young up-and-coming directors; Ripley boning down with Tywin Lannister; saving Newt and Corporal Hicks, smelty smazes and turning Alien into a heist movie.

Mar 26, 20171 hr 6 minEp. 20

Side Notes - Reboot?

We're back, and it's time to talk about movies and other junk! Colin and Gregg chat with Scott C. Bourgeois and Erin Beever about what they've been watching over the last month. They crew hits on The Expanse, Leverage, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Moana, The Lego Batman Movie and Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Mar 24, 201727 minEp. 19

1st Annual Oscars Special

It's Oscar time, and the movie world is abuzz with speculation as to who will be the big winners and losers come Oscar night. Who are the category favourites? Who has the most to gain from an Academy Award? Who will get snubbed the hardest? "Somebody tell me!" you plead, "Give me the cure for my Oscars fever!" Well, you're in luck, dear listeners, because we recorded a special episode that answers none of those questions! Mostly we sat around the table talking about how great The Nice Guys was. ...

Feb 20, 20171 hr 6 minEp. 18

Suicide Squad

The Noter-boys are back for their biggest challenge yet, Suicide Squad! Colin and Gregg bravely tackle DC's world-building monstrosity with guests Eri Riot (Hellbound Ride) and Erin Beever. Tune in to hear Colin profess his love for Batman in a trench coat and Gregg plea for sanity amongst movie-goers. Fair warning: there's lot more swearing in this one than usual, so put your kids to bed early or plug-in your headphones at work.

Jan 31, 20171 hr 17 minEp. 17

Side Notes - Gold Pressed Latinum

In this episode of of Side Notes the boys who note talk about what they've been watching since 2016 came to a merciful end. Colin & Gregg discuss Oliver Stone's The Untold History of the United States, Hardcore Henry, Before the Flood, Love Actually, Logan, Colossal, Rogue One, Dirk Gently and more. They also tee up the next full episode of I Have Some Notes.

Jan 22, 201737 minEp. 16

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

It's the Christmas season and boy do we have a holiday special lined up for you: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Yes, Jim Carrey and Ron Howard team up to deliver a fart filled adaptation of your favourite Christmas classic. Grace and Champ blogger Jessica Holt and Anita Bourgeois join Colin and Gregg in an attempt to punch up this Joel Schumacher-eques mess. Together they ponder if the actors could breath under that heavy Who-makeup, ask whether Jim Carrey was the right Grinchy fit and all agre...

Dec 19, 20161 hr 17 minEp. 15

Side Notes - Lobster Bisque

Hey film gleeks (that's film enthusiasts who have trouble controlling their saliva), it's another Side Notes episode. Colin and Gregg read some follow-up comments to the Mortal Kombat episode, discuss what they've been reading recently, revel in a Broadchurch re-watch, discover the secrets sauce of Gilmore Girls and explore the mouth-TV future of Angelina Jolie's Cyborg 2.

Dec 09, 201623 minEp. 14

Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT!! If you were a 90s kid who grew up on a steady video game diet of fighters you will immediately have the MK techno theme song blaring in you head hearing those words. Yup, this month we take on what is probably still one of the best video game movies ever made, sadly the bar has never been lifted very high. We have an all cartoonist panel this month. Edmonton cartoonist extraordinaire Chad Huculak, author of the brilliant End of the Earth, and Jeremy Die, the other half of the Ing...

Nov 27, 20161 hr 9 minEp. 13

Side Notes – White House Down

Welcome back to Side Notes, our mid-month mini episode in which Colin and Gregg discuss the world of entertainment. Colin discusses his progressive exhaustion with "grim and gritty" comic book adaptations, the bizzaro flick The Lobster, hard sci-fi film Arrival and the confounding story devices used in London has Fallen. Gregg reviews the US election, professes his love for Arrival and turns his brain off for Netflix's Paranoid. Our next full episode attempts to fix the seminal 90s video game ad...

Nov 22, 201623 minEp. 12

I Know What You Did Last Summer

The first full episode of Season 2 also happens to be our Halloween Spooktacular, in that we half-heartly picked a mediocre 90s slasher flick to fix. Ah the nineties, when NBC ruled the ratings, comic artists were obsessed with underboob and PG-13 "horror" films crushed it at the box office. This month we take on I Know What You Did Last Summer, a movie that wouldn't raise your grandma's heartbeat. We examine what to keep (not much) what to cut (Freddie Prince Jr.) and what to change to fix this...

Oct 30, 20161 hr 5 minEp. 11

Side Notes - Season Two

I Have Some Notes returns for Season Two…sort of! While this a "Side Notes" episode, the mini episodes will now be a permanent feature of the show used to tee up our next full episode, as well as chat about what we've been watching and the movie world at large. That means you the listener will be getting two episodes of I Have Some Notes a month instead of one. That's like *counts fingers and toes* like double the amount of episodes! In this mini-episode Colin and Gregg talk about some tweaks to...

Oct 26, 201623 minEp. 10

Side Notes - Is Riker the Hottest?

We're going away for a while. Colin is getting married and Gregg is off to Italy with his wife and frequent podcast guest Erin. So, in light of that, we've got another Side Notes episode to tide you over until season 2 gets started. This episode features some previously edited bits from our Star Trek: Generations episode in white Sam Power professes her love for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and asked the poignant question…is Riker the hottest? We'll see you hopefully near the end of October for...

Sep 16, 201616 minEp. 9

Side Notes - Summer Movie Wrap Up

As promised, we'll be publishing some sub-episodes this summer while we're on break. We're calling these little podcast diversions Sides Notes. This episode Colin & Gregg chat about the summer that was in movies, what they enjoyed, what they didn't and what they're looking forward to in what's left of the movie calendar. Gregg expresses his love for disaster movies, his appreciation for things named Cloverfield and his complicated relationship with Ghostbuster 2016. Colin enlightens us on th...

Aug 29, 201635 minEp. 8

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

It's our season finale! And what a doozy we have as we crunch the numbers and calculate how best to correct the 4th Indiana Jones film. Yes, the one with aliens. It's like Close Encounters of Third Kind and George Lucas had a baby, and Steven Spielberg was left to raise the child on his own. Our guests for the season wrap-up are two noted nerds, comic store owners Danica LeBlanc and Brandon Schatz from Variant Edition. Together we try to solve the essential question…why are there gophers in this...

Aug 17, 20161 hr 14 minEp. 7
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