Friends of the show Ava (@westcoastwinter) and Anna (@electricityska) join for an investigation into the comedic stylings of Marc Maron, and the troubling parasocial relationships he has cultivated on his Instagram.
ReComradations
Evan: De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
Ava: 2023-03-14 20:01:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Representations of the colonial frontier and post-humanism meet jokes about what if Jawas were gay. This is the kind of content you expect and demand from this podcast. Superstar guest Vic (@frklftcrtfd) returns.
ReComradations:
Evan: Radiant Black by Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa
Comedienne and friend of the show Sophie Hayes returns to explore the very evil world of Netflix's most spiritually challenging dating show: Love is Blind.
Check out the comedy album Sophie's featured on, Diversity Hire!
2023-02-08 17:30:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer, researcher, and fellow podcaster from Invisible Institutions (also on the Harbinger Media Network,) Megan Linton joins me for this discussion on collective anxiety in the age of COVID, disability and institutionalization, and the masterful direction of Akira Kurosawa in this story of an elderly foundry owner facing the threat of conservato...
2022-11-11 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons!
You'll recall earlier this year we covered Matthew McConaughey's self-help book / memoir Greenlights for a book club episode.
Well I am pleased to report that we'll be having a second and third book instalment in the book club series celebrating Cormac McCarthy's return to the written word after everyone's favourite movie The Counsellor.
An episode covering The Passenger will release in December, and an e...
2022-11-10 00:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Halloween, Patrons!
I have prepared a little Halloween special for you all. I've wanted to record commentary tracks for a little while now, and this is a film that I think deserves one. What is a Woman? is the transphobic documentary from legitimate fascist Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire website. They're in the movie-making business now, so in service to my listeners, I watched their movie.
It's like watching a movie with me, you'll love it.
2022-10-31 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons!
My apologies for not populating this feed very much as of late, but the summer is over and it's time to get podcasting again. This is a super fun episode I did with the beautiful folks from Worst Case Ontario on the Cronenberg classic Videodrome.
2022-09-11 06:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Takes From The Forbidden Zone is back!
Rob Rousseau joins me to discuss the first film in the reboot/prequel trilogy, director Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes from 2011.
2022-04-19 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Literal angel and my best friend Tristan Turner rejoins the show for this milestone 90th episode of Primo Lefter on the latest disaster from the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, or SPUMC: Morbius. Jared Leto is Dr. Michael Morbius, a sick guy who becomes a vampire. We also explore the Morbius discord at the severe risk of being groomed.
ReComradations
Tristan: 2022-04-08 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons!
Thanks so much for your support of the show! I've been happy to get the show back on its regular schedule this year, and as a little sneak peek here's the next three episodes that I have scheduled for your eyes only :)
And yes, Takes From the Forbidden Zone comes back in just a short while!
2022-04-06 17:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Chef, former journalist, and all-around superstar Pia Co joins Evan this week to talk about the latest Pixar film, Domee Shi's Turning Red. Set in 2002 Toronto, it follows a young Chinese-Canadian girl names Mei as she struggles to balance the expectations of family and her friends with an unexpected transformation.
We also chat about the conservative backlash to the film, complaints that the movie is "too ...
2022-03-30 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Caitlin Hart of Twitter fame, her great newsletter, and The Simpsons: Not a Simpsons Podcast joins Kino to discuss the great thinker of our era: Matthew McConaughey and his new tome Greenlights, which is all about prophetic wet dreams, how cursed Australia is, and precious...
2022-03-15 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
German from Modern Manhood returns after his season about boys growing up to discuss one of 2021's stand-out A24 movies, Mike Mills' C'mon C'mon. In the film, Joaquin Pheonix plays a radio journalist on a cross country trip to interview kids about their thoughts on the future, life, and everything else under the sun. Along the way, he needs to step into a caregiver role for his nephew, Jesse.
Kyle and Jason from Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast join to discuss CODA directed by Sian Heder streaming on Apple TV+.
We discuss the film's many highs, how the text and production model inclusion that ought to be industry-wide, criticism and praise from ...
2021-12-10 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy folks! This episode is a run down of what happened on our most sacred public holiday, Disney+ Day, as well as my reaction to The Simpsons Plusaversary, Hawkeye, and my impressions of Disney's attempt to make Westworld happen, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser.
2021-12-04 05:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The wonderful Valerie Faye joins me to discuss the mysterious Taxi Driver homage Bolt Driver, which says a lot about society.
You can watch the film for free at boltdriver.la
2021-11-07 16:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post
WARNING: graphic descriptions of the improv comedy scene are found throughout the episode. Listener discretion is advised.
Sophie from Dumb Bitch Media and Rob from Dumb & Awful return to discuss the Mike Birbiglia directed 2016 comedy-drama Don't Think Twice about the trials and tribulations of an NYC improv comedy troupe known as "The ...
2021-10-26 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Canadians are going to the polls! Justin Trudeau is seeking re-election two years early to secure a majority government, but how will Kino cover this? Fear not. As a podcast focused on the visual arts, I examine the issues of the 44th federal election through a close reading of a conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and well-spoken crank Rex Murphy on the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast. I learn a lot about cancel culture, climate change, and the insidious woke agenda thanks to these intellect...
2021-09-16 20:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Future Canadian Senator and host of The Progress Report Duncan Kinney joins me to discuss the 1974 Alan J. Pakula film The Parallax View. Part of the unofficial "Paranoia Trilogy" with All The President's Men and Klute, this film centres on a journalist shaken into action by a whistleblower's death to find the truth about the Parallax Corporation and their involvement in political assassination...
2021-08-27 06:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Professor Shama Rangwala joins me to discuss Tim Burton's spectacular failure to revitalize the Apes series.
Marky Mark gets lost in space and stranded on a world ruled by apes. Will this movie get racist real fast? Yes. We explore the film's psychosexual politics, white slavery narratives, and every other strange and horrifying aspect of its two hour runtime.
2021-08-20 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Adrenochrome. Conrad Black. 300. The fall of the Western male.
During July 2021, the National Post (Canada's conservative paper of record) ran a publication event called Action Movie Month. They attempted to highlight the greatest action films of all time, and in classic fashion, some articles are bland and some are deeply damaging on a psychic level. Eric, 2021-08-06 21:52:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a decidedly lighter film in the franchise set in the early years of Ape society. Caesar's community, now co-existing in apartheid with humans, faces conflict on two fronts: the Mutants living in the burnt-out remains of a city, as well as the gorilla leader Aldo's boiling hatred of humanity. How does the film explore these significant issue in a kid-friendly low-budget way? Mitchell (...
2021-07-09 06:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Kino alumna Laura returns to discuss Dasha Nekrasova's directorial debut The Scary of Sixty-First and Epstein Truth culture.
ReComradations:
Laura: [1] The Last Temptation of Christ, dir. Martin Scorsese (1988) [2] building a fire and looking at some fireflies
Evan: Dooku: Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott on Audible
2021-07-03 20:20:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The Great Saw Marathon continues in the lead-up to Spiral. We cover Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D The Final Chapter, and Jigsaw.
Phil and Taylor from the Hammer and Camera podcast join me to discuss one of the most interesting films in the Apes franchise: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. A slave class of apes stage a revolt against their human oppressors - a mirror of the state oppression experienced against Black Americans in the late 1960s and early 1970s that the filmmakers drew inspiration from. How does this fascist version of Ame...
2021-06-11 14:57:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This continues off from the Saw 101 episode in the main feed, and will be followed-up with shortly with an episode covering Saw V - Jigsaw here in the Patreon feed.
Discover Donnie Wahlberg's role in the sprawling Sawniverse, what Jigsaw thinks about addiction, and the pitfalls of apprenticing for a serial killer/trap artist.
Thanks for supporting the show!
2021-06-05 06:53:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Time-travelling apes arrive in 1970s Los Angeles in Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Jeremy Appel, friend of the show from Big Shiny Takes and The Forgotten Corner returns!
Also full disclosure the first approx. fifteen minutes of this episode centre ...
2021-05-22 05:12:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The wonderful Valerie Faye joins me in our evaluation of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, a film about war-mongering, religious dogma, and most importantly looking hot in a fur bikini.
Dana Gould podcast with BTS info from Beneath (starts at 1:12:00 on YouTube)
The thir...
2021-05-07 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
Kino Lefter, your favourite socialist movie podcast, is having our first ever merch drop!
I've done a limited run of 100 vinyl die cut 3x3 inch stickers printed locally in Alberta for new and existing $5+ Patrons during the month of May, and you're the first to hear of it! Patreon should ask you for your shipping details at the checkout, and soon after the end of the month (assuming your shipping details are accurate)...
2021-05-06 20:42:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is: the first episode of Takes From the Forbidden Zone: a miniseries covering every film in the storied Planet of the Apes franchise.
Aaron and Shawn from the utopian comedy podcast SRSLY WRONG rejoin Team Kino to discuss the plot and themes of...
2021-04-23 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post