Kino Lefter

Love. Honour. Loyalty. Family.  These are the central tenets of David, played by Bobby Soto, and also the didactic opening titles of David Ayer's latest film, The Tax Collector. David and Creeper, played by the magnificent Shia LaBeouf, are tax collectors: middle managers for The Wizard who collect tithes from over forty street gangs in L.A.. When the balance of power in the city shifts, Davi...

Every year, 1100 boys descend on Austin, Texas to particpate in the American Legion's Texas Boys State: a week-long experiment in representative government and civil discourse for teenage boys. Apple TV and A24 have come together to distribute this Sundance winner and bring it to us, the Kinos. Concerned with the polarization of American politics, the filmmakers decided to cover Boys State af...

Evan explores DC FanDome: a new fully digital comic con and finds both the hope and horror within. This is a preview of a full episode that our $3/month Patrons can hear on Patreon. Consider joining us to access this episode, our back catalog, and a new premium episode every week. 

Denis Villeneuve's Sicario follows FBI Agent Kate Macer as she joins a task force of U.S. military, intelligence, and police to destabilize the cartels in Juárez, Mexico. Along the way we meet Alejandro, a former prosecutor turned hitman, and Matt, a soldier who will do anything for the empire. Exploring police militarization, borders, poverty, gendered violence, the drug war, imperial violen...

Some friends get togther on the computer to channel the spirits of the dead, and experience some wacky concequences along the way in the Shudder exlcusive Zoom-based horror flick Host .  This is a preview of the full episode that our $3/month Patrons can hear over on our Patreon. Consider joining us to access this episode, our back catalog, and a new premium episode every week. 

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HBO Max is proud to present this story of being pickled, what it means to run a small business, and the horrors of cancel culture. Seth Rogen plays Ben and Herschel Greenbaum, two relatives 100 years apart brought together through the magic of being in brine for a century. We discuss Seth Rogen and the Zionist lobby, the diaspora experience, cancel culture, small business mindset, and the world of...

Gina Prince-Bythewood's Netflix action movie The Old Guard presents a world of muted tones, boring operators, and a heroic mercenary group who are redeemed through their queer romances. We discuss the film's aesthetics, its Netflixy-approach to everything, queerness and racial politics, Orientalism, dying for a Camaro, immortality, spiritual-seeking, and the hotness of other podcasters w...

We have on author, cultural critic, and top 10 great twitter account @saintknives to talk about Spike Lee, Malcolm X, Denzel, and the finer points of making a perfect biopic. ReComradations Dahlia : [1] Taylor Swift's Folklore [2] Sabriel by Garth Nix Abdul : Any Given Sunday/Discord Book Club Evan : [1] Silence of the Lambs [2] Hanna Join the Kino Lefter Discord Access our premium weekly sho...

Hey folks! Our Patrons had exclusive access to this interview for two weeks now we're happy to share it with everyone. The Winds That Scatter (2015) is now available to stream on MEANS TV, and we had the chance to sit down with director Christopher Bell to discuss his latest film, his shorts, and his film-making ethos. For those of you interested in film production, this is an episode for you...

Basketball's back and we talk the bubble, the last dance, capitalism, and players unions in this slam dunk of a bonus episode featuring Rob and Tannara from Big Rings (Among others) ReComradations Tannara : The Sopranos (hell yeah) Abdul : The Safdie Brothers' LENNY COOKE Rob : The Last of Us Part II Join the Kino Lefter Discord Access our premium weekly show Primo Lefter for just $3/mon...

Kelly Reichardt and A24's latest frontier drama centres on two friends who take a risk stealing from the wealthiest man in Oregon Territory to start a business and experience some hardship along the way. It's a critical darling that we have some good and bad things to say about, its use of genre and film-making techniques, and its thematic exploration of capitalism, masculinity, and the...

Evan's opening monologue was lifted almost entirely from  The Immortal Hulk  #11 by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett. You should read it! Jon Stewart, formative for many of our politics during the Bush era, returns with his second feature film Irresistible . Theoretically a political satire about how money in politics erodes democracy, how the consultant class fails us, and the entertainment imperati...

This week (You even get the episode early!), our Kinos crossed the potomac to invade Generation Loss and delved into the dark heart of Lin Manuel Miranda's event spectacular, HAMILTON. Riffing abounds. Big blessings to Bryn and Jeremy for having us on this earth shattering crossover event. 

Canada Day has arrived again, and the occasion has led us to explore the depths of Matthew Rankin's The Twentieth Century: a film Rankin describes as being "one part Canadian Heritage Minute and one part ayahuasca death trip." The Twentieth Century is a fictionalized and hyper stylized look at the early political career of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest-serving P...

Truly a saga of an episode. Ostensibly, we discuss the new Judd Apatow film The King of Staten Island , a Pete Davidson semi-autobiographical film about a hot couch guy whose dead dad gives him trauma. It is perhaps the most MacDonald Test movie we have ever covered. This leads to lengthy conversations on how long the financial crisis lasted for, the step-dad industrial complex, and nearly *twenty...

We end our Spike Lee spectacular with DA 5 BLOODS, his latest, but is it his greatest? Lots of tangents on this one, from Scottish foibles to conspiracy after conspiracy. ReComradations: Laura: Reading, specifically books from Verso. Evan: Paris is Burning (1990)  Abdul: Uncle Drew and the ongoing NBA return to play dispute.  Join the Kino Lefter Discord Access our premium weekly show Primo

This week, we revisit Spike Lee’s seminal 1989 film on racism in America and police violence Do The Right Thing . We discuss the critical response at the time, the film’s connections to the current moment, and eventually get to how the solar cycle is using energy from the Dark Multiverse to make 5G. This is also Part One of a back-to-back series on Spike Lee, with next week’s review of Da 5 Bloods...

We don't have a new episode for you yet this week, so we've gone back through our premium archive to give you a recent hit! Hugh Stewart from Dog Island , Atlantic Canada's #1 Cultural Marxist podcast, joined Abdul and Evan in February to examine the 1996 animated classic Space Jam. The American dream, unionization, and Michael Jordan's legacy are all up for discussion in the c...

We recorded this episode before the demonstrations in response to the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police began. We've donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund (which now has a pause on donations), so we ask you to consider giving to some of these great causes: Justice for Regis Prairie Province Prisoner Support Fund Official George Floyd Memorial Fund 70+ US Community Bail Funds vi...

EDIT: There was an issue with the upload, if you're into getting one sided audio, delete the episode and redownload it, it is fixed now! Abdul is joined by Seamus Malekafzali to look at Saudi Arabia's first, inexplicable, insane animated film, MASAMEER. You can find Seamus' fantastic writing here ReComradations: Abdul: The Mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator   Seamus...

Movies. They're still coming out during COVID. There's a lot of them. We picked this one. We don't know why we did, but we did. In the grim darkness of the quar, there is only SCOOB!. ReComradations: Laura: Listening to Kate Bush  Abdul: [1] Neighbor Science [2] Fictitious Capital: How Finance is Appropriating our Future Evan: The Fall of Phoenix Jones Join the Discord Access Primo...

This is a spiritual sequel to our first collaboration, the Primo Lefter episode on Arctic Dogs, which you can hear in our premium feed. Evan and friend of the show Mattie Washburn from Watchtower Database are here to give you a comprehensive review of the last installment in the DC Animated Movie Universe, capping off seven years of storytelling. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War sees the Justice...

Director of Third Shift and Pure Flix and Chill: The David A.R. White Story (mentioned on our Unplanned episode) Anthony Banua-Simon and Producer Mike Vass sit down with us in the Socially Isolated Digital Studio to discuss their latest film, Cane Fire , premiering at the 2020 Hot Docs International Film Festival, streaming May 28 - June 24. Cane Fire tells a story about the exploitation of land,...

Blood Quantum , Jeff Barnaby's Miꞌkmaq zombie movie is sick and you should watch it: Shudder // YouTube // Apple TV Genre fiction has always been home to robust social critique, and this timely movie is no different. Set on the Red Crown reserve, a sheriff, a nurse, and their fractured family need to adapt to a new zombified world. Along the way, conversations on Indigenous-settler relations,...