1000th Review! Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Universal Language with Special Guests Paul Grace and Matthew Rankin (Movie Squad Podcast #487)

It’s their biggest mission yet: Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo join Pam Boland for their (debatable) 1000th film review… and they’re celebrating with some special friends.

But first, listen in as Tristan and Simon celebrate “movie movies” with Tom Cruise’s eighth Mission: Impossible entry, the ominously titled Final Reckoning.

Then, a look at the cosmic Canadian comedy Universal Language, about an alternative idea of the Great White North where the dominant language is Persian.

Tristan speaks with Universal Language’s writer-director-star Matthew Rankin about his fascinating film experiment in the pod-exclusive portion of the episode.

But not before Pam shares a brief “best of” Tristan and Simon with former Brekky hosts Taylah Strano and Caitlin Nienaber.

And then, they’re joined by founding Movie Squad member Paul Grace, Tristan’s former on-air partner, who shares his memories of Movie Squad’s beginnings more than 20 years ago. That includes an excerpt from his iconic review of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia (with Paul playing Baz).

Paul recently authored Operation Hurricane, which is available in all good bookstores, and speaks about Never Again: The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at the Holmes a Court Gallery, as well as its adjoining film program, The Atomic Age. Learn all about it here!

Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!