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Karen Mills from Alberta Advantage , C.H.A.N.G.E. Agents and Format: Guardian joins for the blockbuster finale of Gun Barrel: a miniseries on modern James Bond.  Pierce Brosnan's fourth and final turn as James Bond 007 is widely regarded as the franchise's worst moment - and it is. We discuss the plot, which revolves around two North Korean guys becoming white through gene therapy. Along...

German Villegas of the Modern Manhood podcast joins me to discuss Daniel Craig's second-last Bond film Spectre . A shadowy organization led by someone from Bond's past stands poised to consolidate the world's intelligence services under their banner over the course of two and a half sepia toned hours. We discuss representations of the global south, how Bond's masculinity is cap...

Marino and Eric from Big Shiny Takes join me in discussing 1999's The World is Not Enough . Part Seven on Spectre will be in the free feed soon, and Part Eight on Die Another Day will be in the Patron feed next week. 

Tyler from Alberta Advantage , format guardian , and several episodes of the Kino Lefter podcast, joins me this week to discuss this critical entry into the James Bond canon. Sam Mendes' first of two Bond films Skyfall marks the 50th year of the franchise. It's a reflective reinvention of James Bond set against the backdrop of civilian oversight of intelligence agencies, changing gender...

Marc Serpa Francoeur & Robinder Uppal join the program to discuss their new documentary feature on police violence and injustice within the ranks of the Calgary Police Service: No Visible Trauma . The film "examines a deeply troubled police department and reveals the devastating consequences of unchecked police brutality...  From the kidnapping and beating of a young immigrant from Ghana,...

Kaden Terepocki joins the program this week to discuss the twenty-second James Bond film Quantum of Solace directed by Marc Forster. Hastily reworked during the WGA writers’ strike, Quantum revolves around an international secret society staging a coup in Bolivia while extorting them by controlling their water supply. We get into the film’s production, strengths, weaknesses, themes, and answer you...

Adam Johnson from Citations Needed joins me for Part Four of Gun Barrel: a miniseries on modern James Bond. We talk about the media, conflict, and the wonderful cheese of the 18th Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies . Part Three on Quantum of Solace will be in the free feed soon, and Part Five on The World is Not Enough will be available next week through the Patreon feed . 

Andrew Neville (Dog Island, Incredible Thoughts, Penhorn Summer) returns to Kino Lefter in part two of GUN BARREL: a miniseries on modern James Bond. We explore Bond at the end of history and how the fall of the Soviet Union and the advent of computers and feminism challenges our hero. Part Three of Gun Barrel on Quantum of Solace will be in your free feeds this week, and Part Four on Tomorrow Nev...

Gun Barrel: a miniseries on modern James Bond begins here. Clinton Hallahan from the Alberta Advantage podcast joins me to discuss Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale. How has James Bond transformed after 9/11? The threats he fights range from terrorism to financial malfeasance to getting too horny to finish the mission. We discuss what works about the film, how it reflects post-9/11 cinema, and its l...

This is GUN BARREL : a miniseries on the contemporary James Bond films. For the month of November, I'll be connecting with old friends and new ones to discuss the James Bond films of Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, and how they reflect the political moments they were made in. From the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of history in GoldenEye through to the Marvelfication of all media in S...

To close out Scream-o Lefter's Shocktober content, celebrated editor, producer, and director Vera Drew joins me for a conversation on the classic slasher Sleepaway Camp  to discuss its representations of gender, sexuality, class, and queer identity. As well, we get into all of the hot Tinseltown gossip, what it's like to work for Tim and Eric, and Vera's exciting groundbreaking work...

Ted, Rose , and Trevor from the Kevin Smith analysis podcast We Need to Talk About Kevin join this week to discuss Paul W.S. Anderson's AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004).  Two iconic movie monsters battle it out with the pawns of the tech billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland caught in the middle. Luckily for the Kev crew, they don't have to watch a Kevin Smith film this week. Now we're t...

One of the best movies done for this show, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 brings to the foreground the comedic notes of the first film to create an unforgettable satire of American life, capitalism, and the nuclear family.  Faris, who joined for Fighting With My Family , rejoins Team Kino to explore one of their favourite films. You can check out Faris on Instagram and listen to Dreamslam! All...

Brett Payne from Street Fight Radio joins this week to discuss the new docuseries on Amazon Prime about Fernando Alonso: a two-time F1 world champion on a mission for the triple crown of motorsports. We share our love of racing, chat about the 2020 season, and take a glimpse into the ups and downs of Alonoso's time away from the F1 circuit. Plus, Andre from Harbinger Media Network drops by fo...

DC Comics keeps electrifying the corpse of Watchmen and they won't stop until they legally can't print comics anymore.  Following in the footsteps of Before Watchmen and Doomsday Clock, Tom King and Jorge Fornés bring a new vision of the Rorschach character to life. Who's under the mask? What horrible secrets await within the pages of this comic? Tune in to find out.  Subscribe to C...

James Comey, portrayed by the Newsroom guy, faces the twin challenges of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and President Trump's relationship with Russia during his tenure as FBI Director. Travel through the time machine with us to 2016 as we discuss Trump cash-in books, the downfall of liberal institutionalism, and the culture output of la belle province. I'm joined by Ethan and C...

Welcome to a month of frights from Kino Lefter.  Pontypool , the 2008 Canadian horror film from director Bruce McDonald based on the novel Pontypool Changes Everything by Tong Burgess, takes us to a remote northern Ontario radio station with shock jock Grant Mazzy during the onset of a strange new illness transmitted through the English language.  Will Menaker and Matt Christman from Chapo Trap Ho...

The audio for this episode was corrupted but our brilliant producer Jamar was able to recover it as much as possible.  Olav Rokne from the Hugo Book Club joins for this episode on The New Mutants, the final Fox X-Men film. The film, which comes straight from the mind of the director of The Fault in our Stars and one of the writers of Jackass, turns out to be a really tepid last gasp of this franch...

Activist, writer, and Kino Lefter alumna Laura Kruse ( @_SaturnReturn ) joins the program to discuss one of the most controversial films of the year. Cuties , a French film from director Maïmouna Doucouré is a coming of age story centering on Amy, a young Senegalese girl who becomes fascinated with a dance crew called "The Cuties" and searches for belonging between two models of feminini...

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The Secret, a cornerstone of Wal-mart discount bins nationwide is having its philosophy brought to life in the big screen with The Secret: Dare to Dream . This self-help book has been turned into one of the poorest reviewed films of the year that's essentially a Nicholas Sparks movie about the law of attraction. One down-on-her-luck widow meets a magical thirsty handyman who may have killed h...

Cody Bondarchuk (yes, the very same Robin Hood of McNuggets ) joins Team Kino to discuss Ru Paul's gift to Canadians: our very own drag superstar.  Canada's Drag Race Season One is a ten episode journey to find a Canadian queen with enough charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to make it to the top. Cody and I discuss the state of the Ru Paul empire, the judges, the hosts, the queens,...

Live-action Disney adaptations of their animated fare have become a staple of the modern movie-going experience, and in COVID World we're not going to the theatre. Whatever will the Disney Company do? With Disney+ Premier Access (available for a $34.99 CAN fee on top of your subscription) you can have the privilege of seeing Mulan (2020) before it becomes widely accessible to Disney+ subscrib...

America is facing a crisis: a crisis of incivility.  Unhinged , the first wide in-theatres release in the United States since the COVID-19 pandemic began, follows Rachel, a harried single mom suffering from her greedy husband in family court, encounters "The Man" played by Russell Crowe: a recently divorced man addicted to painkillers who decides to systematically ruin Rachel's life...

Holes is a key film for many of us. It opened our eyes to the issues in youth corrections, it gave us hope that seemingly intractable battles in climate change could be solved if we carried a boy up a mountain, and yes, it was also an important sexual awakening. Holes tells the story of Stanley Yelnats IV, an unlucky young man played by a debuting Shia LaBeouf who grapples with his family's c...