LENS ME YOUR EARS

Carsten is back and we have a new episode for this week: a roundup of what's been happening in the Marvel Cinematic (and Streaming) Universe. From Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (plus a sidebar on Everything Everywhere All at Once) to Eternals and the Sony corner of the MCU with two Venoms and a Morbius, plus a splash of Spider-Man, Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel. Follow us on twitt...

In this episode, Carsten & Stephen have a look at a selection of adventure films and dramas inspired by the sagas of those bold raiders from the north, the Vikings, currently represented in theatres by The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers' highly anticipated big screen saga The Northman. Stephen & Carsten put out their oars and row their way through Viking films past and present, from Hol...

This week, Carsten & Stephen take a look at the latest from apocalyptic auteur Roland Emmerich, Moonfall, as well as a journey through the history of the disaster movie, from its historical and sci-fi roots in films like When Worlds Collide, through its heyday in the 1970s with star-studded spectaculars like Airport and The Towering Inferno, to our current era of computerized special effects w...

On the latest edition of Lens Me Your Ears, we take a look at the work of Austin-based indie filmmaking legend Richard Linklater, inspired by the recent release of his new digitally rotoscoped feature Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, which just dropped on Netflix. Carsten & Stephen take a look at some under-appreciated gems in his filmography, including his professional debut Slacker, the...

On the latest edition of Lens Me Your Ears, we have a look at films set in Toronto, Canada's largest city and for some, The Centre of the Universe :). Ah, but we kid the T-Dot. With the new Disney/Pixar film Turning Red examining the life of a teenage girl and her Chinese-Canadian family, and an ancestral legacy that sees her turn into a giant red panda when she hits puberty, we thought we'd...

On this week's show, we look at the career of successful Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp! Koepp came to prominence in the early 1990s with his work on Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Brian DePalma's Carlito's Way, and most recently has finally collaborated for the first time with longtime friend Steven Soderbergh on the techno thriller Kimi, starring Zoe Kravitz in a stand-out performance....

Carsten & Stephen take a look at the lengthy and impressive career of New Zealand-born director Jane Campion, in the wake of her tale of toxic masculinity on the open range, The Power of the Dog, emerging as a top contender at this year's Academy Awards. Her first feature film in more than a decade, the film comes after her loving look at the romance between doomed poet John Keats and the spir...

On the latest episode of LMYE, Carsten & Stephen take a look at the ouvre of cinematic enfant-terrible Paul Verhoeven, whose latest controversial release ' Benedetta' takes a look at the life of a nun who defied the power of the Catholic church in Renaissance Italy. From his earliest work as a Dutch filmmaker (Soldier of Orange, The 4th Man) to his Hollywood hits (Robocop, Total Recall) and ye...

With the recent release of Asghar Farhadi's latest film A Hero on Amazon Prime, pegged as a strong contender for this year's Best International Film at the Academy Awards, Carsten & Stephen take a look at a range of noteworthy films from Iranian and Iranian-American filmmakers, including the work of Farhadi, Jafar Panahi (Taxi, The White Balloon), Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Like Someon...

On today's episode, Stephen & Carsten take a look back at the films of the late Sidney Poitier, who led the way in changing Hollywood's approach to Black representation in films, and portrayed a series of memorable characters defined by their strength, their integrity and their defiance through the 1950s and '60s and beyond. Carsten and Stephen look at some of Poitier's best-known films, and o...

This week, Carsten and Stephen take a look at Guillermo del Toro's new blend of horror and film noir in his reimagining of the collision between the side show and high society, Nightmare Alley, inspired by the 1947 film starring Tyrone Power and the original novel by William Lindsay Gresham. The show also takes a look at the original film and other cinematic trips to the carnival and travelling&nb...

This week, Carsten & Stephen take a look at the return of the movie musical, with three new productions on the big and small screens starting with Steven Spielberg's highly anticipated remake of the Broadway and Hollywood classic West Side Story, plus modern musical maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his directorial debut with his adaptation of Jonathan "Rent" Larson's tick, tick...BOOM! and see...

This week, Carsten & Stephen follow the Noir- vember tradition of delving into hard-boiled cinema with some of the best known and under-appreciated titles in the genre, with heavy hitters like Double Indemnity, Laura and Out of the Past, alongside terrific thrillers like Phantom Lady, The Asphalt Jungle, No Way Out and Niagara. Follow us on twitter: @Lensmeyourears and like us on Facebook...

In this episode, Carsten & Stephen take a look at U.K. director Edgar Wright's new thriller 'Last Night in Soho'. Stepping out of his comedy comfort zone, Wright tells a gripping and lurid tale of a young fashion student's trip through time and into terror when she comes to London and becomes embroiled in the city's nightlife and a fantasy vision of the swinging '60s that goes horribly aw...

In this episode of Lens Me Your Ears, Carsten & Stephen discuss the long-awaited sci-fi epic DUNE, directed by Canada's own Denis Villeneuve, the first half of his visionary interpretation of the epic Frank Herbert novel. Along with Dune, Carsten and Stephen also took a look back at David Lynch's own mixed bag of spice with his 1984 version, and the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune about the firs...

This week, avowed 007-philes Carsten & Stephen take a look at the long-awaited 25th official James Bond film No Time to Die, which is also Daniel Craig's (Madeleine) swan song as the unstoppable MI6 secret agent with a license to kill. There are spoilers galore in this examination of the film and discussion of where the 007 franchise could be headed with thoughts about who could step into the...

On this week's episode, Carsten and Stephen take a look at the latest Marvel Studios offering 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ' starring Simu Liu and Awkwafina, and the MCU’s dive into its martial arts comics legacy, plus a look at the film careers of its two incredible co-stars from the world of Hong Kong cinema, Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung, with a handful of titles from their impress...

This week, Carsten & Stephen take a look at some of the latest Atlantic Canadian film offerings from the 2021 edition of FIN Atlantic International Film Festival running to Sept. 23rd, including Bretten Hannam's amazing Two-Spirit odyssey Wildhood, Shelley Thompson's debut feature Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor, Juanita Peters' thriller about reconciliation and revenge, 8:37 Rebirth and...

This week, Carsten & Stephen take a look at some of the overlooked highlights of the career of French star Marion Cotillard following her latest risk-taking role as an opera singer in the Leos Carax/Sparks collaboration Annette. Carsten & Stephen delve into a series of films stretching over two decades, from the Hitchockian thriller A Woman in Danger to the glowing period piece The Immigra...

This week, Carsten & Stephen go behind the music with a series of recent and lesser-known music documentaries, from the you-are-there narratives of Woodstock '99: Peace, Love & Rage and Questlove's Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) to the detailed biographies Edgar Wright's The Sparks Brothers, Suzy Q's look at the career of Suzy Quatro and Tina's explorati...

Inspired by Steven Soderbergh's latest outing, the post-modern retro caper film No Sudden Move, with a killer cast. Carsten & Stephen delve into the history of neo-noir films, recalling the classic post-war movement chronicling doomed heroes, femme fatales and dark shadows with fresh spins on a familiar form. Thanks to Criterion Channel, some of the best examples are all in one place, with tit...

This week we take in the return to the big screen of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Black Widow, and the last (maybe?) hurrah for super-agent and erstwhile Avenger Natasha Romanoff, played by Scarlett Johansson. While the film takes us behind-the-scenes of Black Widow's family life, or rather, "family" life, prior to its cataclysmic finale, Stephen and Carsten go behind-the-camera to look at t...

On this episode of LMYE, we take a look at recent and important entries in the realm of Queer cinema, ranging from the landmark documentary The Celluloid Closet currently streaming on The Criterion Channel to Canadian director Bruce LaBruce's new feature Saint-Narcisse and the overlooked My Days of Mercy starring Elliot Page to new films featuring trans actors like Cowboys and Together, Together....

Inspired by the recent release of the North Ontario-shot thriller Girl , starring Bella Thorne and Mickey Rourke as an axe-wielding young woman and the foreboding sheriff investigating her father's gruesome demise, Carsten & Stephen opted to take a look back and the wild & wooly filmography of Rourke, who has had his share of letdowns and comebacks over a long and often intriguing career....

On this episode of LMYE, Carsten & Stephen have a look at Danish thriller ' Riders of Justice ' and the most recent winner of the best foreign language film at the Academy Awards, Denmark's ' Another Round ', both starring the omnipresent Mads Mikkelson. From there, the show goes through some classic and recent examples of Danish filmmaking, from Vampyr to A Royal Affair to The Charmer, to sho...