Kino Lefter

Julian Feeld ( @JulianFeeld ), author and host of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast joins Team Kino in the crossover of a lifetime. To fully explore our conspiratorial times, we revisit the 2006 "masterpiece" The Da Vinci Code , adapted from a Dan Brown novel and directed by Ron Howard. The film centres on a shadow war between two ancient and secret societies, a Great Awakening that will resha...

The New World Order is feeding Satanic messages to your children and Tiny Diamond, a small glittery Troll doll, is their mouthpiece. When kids movies try to tell Important Stories about pluralism vs. "tribalism" they miss more than they hit. In Trolls World Tour, the Pop Trolls learn to process their white guilt and fight the genocidal Rock Trolls to preserve their individuality, and lea...

The director of the Austin Powers films makes a film about the culture of sexual misconduct at Fox News. I'm sure this will go well.  Host of Big Shiny Takes and journalist Jeremy Appel ( @JeremyAppel1025 ) joins Evan and Laura to discuss this Oscar-winning Adam McKay-esque take on the sexual misdeeds of propagandist Roger Ailes and the prominent women at Fox who suffered and spoke out. Is it...

Rob Ford will endure throughout the ages as a beautiful, ghastly tire fire that made the world stop and laugh at the City of Toronto. How do we consider his legacy in the intervening years from his death to his brother’s premiership? The film Run This Town examines the media culture and work environments of millennial journalists, and the chaotic and fearful City Hall ran by Ford. Is it good? What...

This adaptation of the 2003 DC Comics Elseworlds story is an ideologically-poisoned work and Kino Lefter is the cure.  From Mark Millar, the Michael Bay of comics, and the political scientists at Warner Bros. Animation comes a "revamped" telling of this classic Superman tale that ruins much of what made the original an interesting work.  What is Superman landed in Soviet Ukraine and beca...

A bawdy scandal is afoot in the Kino Lefter Socially Isolated Digital Studio, and it will take a handsome foreign suitor, a busty maid, and a local eccentric to matchmake the whole of Regency-era England until an uncouth remark is made. We watched Emma. the 2020 Autumn de Wilde adaption of the Jane Austen novel from 1815. Are we experts? No. Did we watch the movie and have thoughts? Yes. We discus...

We're back with a look at the Ellen Page-produced adaptation of Ingrid Waldron's book There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities.   This film chronicles three struggles for justice in Black and Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia against industry and the state in Shelburne, Pictou Landing First Nation, and Sipekne’katik First Nation. W...

***Pre-order our good friend James Wilt's book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk"*** The culture wars rage on and only a few brave filmmakers are willing to take the piss out of both sides. The Hunt, "the film Donald Trump doesn't want you to see," sees liberal elites hunting Deplorables for sport.  We discus...

It's November 8th, 2016. You and your friends await your feminist hero Hillary Rodham Clinton to speak on-stage at the Javits Center to tell you that this election had been a bad dream, and that Cheeto Man won't be President. Instead, John Podesta tells you that the nightmare is just beginning. What do we do in the face of political crisis? Build worker power? Elect socialists? No. We wa...

The family's back together to tackle fatherhood, alcohol, sports, communities, and other shit idk. We watched Gavin O'Connor's The Way Back, a movie about Ben Affleck being divorced and drunk while coaching high school basketball. ReComradations: Evan: Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story (2020) [ Trailer ] Abdul: He Got Game (1998) [ Trailer ] Laura: [1] Taking a trip to Columbia [2] C...

Folks, the world is a cruel and Jokerfied place. However, there's still one place where you can put yourself in a pod, find the love of your life, meet their parents, then leave them at the altar. That's right: Kino Lefter watched all of the Netflix hit reality show Love is Blind and made two hours of content about it. To hear the full experience, consider signing-up at the $3/month leve...

Grab your tickets for our first ever live show! We're watching Magic Mike with the Modern Manhood Podcast! Saturday March 28th at Metro Cinema in Edmonton ( tix here ) CW : there's a lot of talk about gaslighting, mental health, and domestic abuse throughout this episode. ReComradations: Abdul: Marbula 1 from Jelle's Marble Runs ( https://www.marble-sports.com/series/marbula-one/ )...

Abdul & Evan are joined by Edmonton organizer and all around funnyperson Bailey Cameron to talk about dogs. Love em or hate em! Become a $3 monthly subscriber to access Primo Lefter , our weekly premium show. Join the Discord Kino Lefter is a movie review podcast where we (allegedly) watch whatever movie is hot this week and break it down from a pointedly left perspective, looking at what it s...

Porky Pig has withdrawn the energy of the Looney Tunes from the toxic system of television. What does work stoppage, the fourth wall eroding, and Daffy being horny for Warner Bros. tell us about worker power? It's Space Jam. And a Dog Island crossover. 🐶🏝️ Our $3 Patrons get to hear the full episode. Join our Patreon today to access this and all of our bonus content. 

It's late, but is it ever worth it. Abdul & Evan are joined by media empire, THE SERFS to talk the Capitalist Realism of Sonic the Hedgehog. Become a $3 monthly subscriber to access Primo Lefter , our weekly premium show. Join the Discord Kino Lefter is a movie review podcast where we (allegedly) watch whatever movie is hot this week and break it down from a pointedly left perspective, lo...

Our tour of the Netflix Construct brings us to Jeff Baena's Sundance-to-Netflix film about mental health: Horse Girl. Then, we weave in-and-out of conversation on mumblecore, the new David Lynch short, and eventually end up at Pandas vs. Aliens. To hear the full episode and more, consider joining our Patreon at the $3/month level to get instant access to new episodes of Primo Lefter every wee...

This week's episode will be late, so enjoy this recent hit from behind out paywall for free! In a case of life imitating art, worlds collide when Evan and Struggle Session's Leslie Lee III discuss the latest and largest Arrowverse crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths.  Discussed inside: our love of Smallville, DC continuity, Brandon Routh's Superman, Kevin Conroy's Batman, 90s...

This week we're a morally ambiguous girl gang hellbent on stanning queens. We're joined by Chicago-based author and host of Dahlia Saint Knives in...Knives Out! Podcast , Dahlia Saint Knives!  Listen for our conversation on Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn.)  ReComradations: Evan: Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017) Abdul: Mr. Robot series finale Da...

Would your life be improved by a pussy-scented candle?  Join us in the birth canal on a mushroom trip gone wrong. Join our Patreon at the $3+ level to access this episode, our back catalog, and a fresh bonus episode every week. 

CW: we discuss Taylor Swift's sexual assault case at 58 minutes until 60 mins in.  We go deep into the documentary that is truly of our time, place, present, and future: The dark heart of Taylor Swift is our oculus, and we are all Kevin Garnett.  Discussed inside: Marg Delahunty and Canadian political satire, Our Cartoon President, the firing of Tanner Z, "The Swift Lift" and the 20...

What is a gentleman? What are the secrets of success? This week's Kino has those answers and more as we discuss Guy Ritchie's latest flop The Gentlemen. Discussed inside: masculinity and gender, class aesthetics, extreme ownership, success posting, sinophobia, south park politics, legalization of marijuana, the police state, and racialization. ReComradations : Evan: The Twentieth Century...

Life imitates art in this special crossover event!  Evan is joined by Struggle Session host Leslie Lee III to discuss Crisis on Infinite Earths, the latest and largest crossover of TV's Arrowverse. We got any Smallville-heads in the building?  Access the full episode at our $3 Patreon level.  Join the Discord.  Support Struggle Session on Patreon. 

This episode was shot as a long take by legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins and the only way to see it is to listen to it. Become a $3 monthly subscriber to access Primo Lefter , our weekly premium show. Join the Discord Kino Lefter is a movie review podcast where we (allegedly) watch whatever movie is hot this week and break it down from a pointedly left perspective, looking at what it says a...

While Abdul is off making a movie, Evan and Laura watched the new Safdie Brothers flick Uncut Gems and it was 100% legal. Tyler ( @georgefrowny ) from Alberta Advantage and format_guardian rejoins the show to discuss why we loved this movie so much, the relationship between debt and violence, gambling under neoliberalism, and the one time Laura became Scrooge McDuck at Braden's house. ReComra...

Welcome to 2020! We watched the pre-patch Cats with the unfinished CGI and our lives will never be the same.  Items discussed: Tom Hooper thinks his movie is about "tribalism", why tribalism is an awful concept, Judi Dench Trans Deuteronomy [FAKE NEWS?], transphobia, body politics, the deserving poor, fetishization and race.  Readings: Tom Hooper interview (Business Insider)  Judi Dench...