Screening in Kingston

Taylor returns from her Honeymoon to put a stop to all the Star Trek talk! She gives us her honeymoon movie list while Mike reviews the new Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7, looking back at the careers of Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

With the 3rd season of Star Trek Discovery set to debut, we welcome back Tyler Vance to talk Star Trek with Mike! In this special episode we look at Mike and Tyler’s favorite 5 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and talk about how each episode holds up today. We decided to go positive with our Star Trek talk and remember all the great episodes that came before from  Patrick Stewart,...

The real Star Trek included 5 TV shows and a lot of films, many of which tackled social and political topics/issues in many episodes since the 1960s. This week, Tyler Vance, our Star Trek correspondent, joins MIke to discuss their favourite episodes that address many issues that are still very relevant today. We talk about race, class, gender, education, political tension, prejudice, and more. Was...

We finally find out if Taylor did indeed get married! Mike reviews a random film (The Skeleton Key) and we talk about a lot of new movie news about more push backs as films get set for a long winter. Topics this week include Russell Crowe, Kate Hudson, Wonder Woman 1984, Tenet and new dates for major movie releases.

Netflix continues to bring us a wide variety of movies as more new releases turn to streaming services. This week we review the films Enola Holmes with Millie Bobby Brown and The Devil All The Time starring Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Pennywise the clown himself Bill Skarsgård. We get the final wedding update from Taylor and some fans ask award season themed questions

MIke and Taylor welcome back their Toronto International Film Festival correspondent Nicole Stawikowski to talk about TIFF 2020 and how a film festival was able to run during a global pandemic. Nicole reviews films from the festival and gives suggestions for what to look for this fall as the film festival movies start their Oscars run. Fan questions include news about James Bond, The Conjuring 3,...

This week we review the new Netflix film I’m Thinking of Ending Things starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons and the always entertaining Toni Collette. (light spoilers) We also review How To Be A Good Wife, a french film with English subtitles and give a little preview of what you can expect next week when we welcome a special guest back to the show. The show kicks off was a discussion arou...

Mike and Taylor catch up on some new releases from the past 2 weeks of movie theatres being open. Mike reviews The New Mutants and the live action Mulan on Disney Plus. Taylor reviews Bill And Ted Face The Music, the third film in the Bill and Ted series from the 80s. Mike and Taylor also take turns ranting about Star Trek Discovery and Horror Film critics.

  Mike and Taylor are both back to the movie theatres! Mike reviews Tenet, our first new movie review in theatres since March. Christopher Nolan’s latest film has been a long time coming, how does it hold up with his other films? Taylor reviews She Dies Tomorrow, playing at the Screening Room, and Mike and Taylor pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman who passed away suddenly on Friday.

This week Mike and Taylor answer some fan questions and comments about Masks in Movie Theatres and the evolution of Comedy. Mike talks about revisiting Inception from Christopher Nolan as we get set for the wide release of his next film Tent. Taylor reviews Crash from 1996, the director David Cronenberg is a Canadian best known for his thrillers and horror films

This week Mike recounts his visits to all 3 movie theaters in Kingston! He reviews The Burnt Orange Heresy, Peninsula and Jurassic Park. Topics this week include Donald Sutherland, Koren Films, Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, Steven Spielberg, Sang-ho Yeon, and Mike's experiences going to the movies with new guidelines at each theatre. We also get to some fan questions including a debate over...

It's time for another themed episode as Mike and Taylor talk about their favorite movies set in Summer or themed to the summer. Jaws, Call Me By My Name, Hot American Summer and so much more as they break down their Top 10 lists and discuss what the rest of the summer may be like for movie goers. 

Mike and Taylor breakdown the return to movie theatres with a spotlight on films playing in Kingston and at the Screening Room! They review The Invisible Man, Emma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Clue, Sonic The Hedgehog, Jumanji The Next Level and more as we take a look at how theatre's are handling no new releases.

It is episode 100 of Screening in Kingston! We hear from our fans about some of their favorite moments from the first 99 episodes and Mike and Taylor walk through the IMDB Top 100 Movie List. How does it hold up? Which movies have the loudest fans? We talk about this and more in our special 100th Episode.

In episode 99, Mike and Taylor review Da 5 Bloods, a film from Spike Lee currently streaming on Netflix. We start off with some fan questions and present a fan's creation: The Screening in Kingston Bingo Card as we continue our countdown to 100 episodes.

This week our team reviews some new movies on streaming platforms! Hamilton , from Lin-Manuel Miranda, started streaming on Disney Plus this past weekend, Mike reviews it and talks about how musicals should be filmed. Also, for some more music, Mike and Taylor checked out Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga with Will Ferrell and Canada's own Rachel McAdams.

In the final film of our all Canandian Movie Club, we take a look at the F Word, or in many parts of the world the film is called What If. This movie stars Daniel Radcliffe, Adam Driver and Zoe Kazan, directed by Michael Dowse.

In Week 2 of our movie club we review The Ravenous, a french film set in Quebec during a zombie apocalypse....quite the film to say the least.

We kick off our second movie club with Black Cop, a film on CBC Gem written and directed by Cory Bowles. Mike and Taylor give their review and we hear from fans who watched along with us.

This week Mike and Taylor have some big announcements that will continue throughout June! One of those is the launch of our second movie club, stream at home along with us as we do a three week tribute to Canadian films. Check out this week's episode for more announcements with more to follow in June.

In our first new movie review since the start of COVID 19 closures in Ontario, Taylor talks about a romanic comedy with an action twist. The Lovebirds, starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae was originally scheduled for a theatre release BUT was moved to #streaming rather than being pushed back or rescheduled. 

Finally Mike and Taylor dive into the Netflix documentary that took our world by storm! Tiger King is the crazy story of Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Jeff Lowe, their lives with Tigers and so much more. Spoiler Warning for the entire series of Tiger King as our team goes into detail on their thoughts on doc. Mike also revisits his conversation about #blackAF, also available on Netflix, and our team...

Mike and Taylor answer fan questions for the entire episode as we open up our email and comments to all our amazing fans! Hear great streaming suggestions, film industry insights, post COVID-19 talk and a short review of the Netflix series #BlackAF from writer/producer Kenya Barris.

Mike and Taylor are joined by Wendy Huot, owner and manager of The Screening Room, Kingston's independent movie theatre to give an update on the Screening Room being closed during COVID19 and what the world of theatre going could look like in the future. She gives some Netflix suggestions and recounts stories about the Cats sing-along screenings they did just before shutting down.

Mike and Taylor are joined by Val Martin and Aprajita Sarcar, who watched the film "The Platform" on Netflix while practicing social distancing. They discuss how they watched the film and what it was like to share in the movie watching experience from home.