This week, a deep dive into the nightmare that is the Angry Serkis adaptation of colonial literature, but this time with NEO-colonialism!
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 about our culture, and a society, which is something we live in.
Friends of the show Ava (@westcoastwinter) and Anna (@electricityska) join for a an investigation into the comedic stylings of Marc Maron, and the troubling parasocial relationships he has cultivated on his Instagram.
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Joining me for 150th episode of the show is Chandler Levack, the director of I Like Movies. This is a film I saw at the Edmonton International Film Festival a few months back and has stuck with me ever since.
In the film, high schooler/cinephile Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) begins working at Sequels Video while his personal relationships and dream of going to the Tisch School for the Arts fall in deeper jeopardy.
Watch Chandler's 2017 short We Forgot to Break Up on Vimeo.
I Like Movies starts playing this Friday at the TIFF Lightbox, CPX International Village (Vancouver,) Silvercity Burlington, Playhouse (Hamilton,) Cinematheque on March 11th (Winnipeg) and starting March 17th at Metro Cinema in Edmonton.
ReComradations:
New York Ninja (2021) dir. John Liu / Kurtis M. Spieler
Representations of the colonial frontier and post-humanism meet jokes about what if Jawas were gay. This is the kind of content you expect and demand from this podcast. Superstar guest Vic (@frklftcrtfd) returns.
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Sean and Tyler from Alberta Advantage, and Tristan (my best friend and frequent guest) join forces for a discussion on imperialism, religion, and the brutal and ornate future of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part One from 2021.
ReComradations:
Tyler: Malazan: Book of the Fallen
Tristan: Centre Place
Sean: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Evan: D-Tox aka Eye See You, dir. Jim Gillespie (2002)
Comedienne and friend of the show Sophie Hayes returns to explore the very evil world of Netflix's most spiritually challenging dating show: Love is Blind.
Check out the comedy album Sophie's featured on, Diversity Hire!
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Gordon and Marc from the Darts & Letters podcast join me to discuss the 2004 National Film Board documentary Discordia, chronicling a student uprising against Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at Concordia and its aftermath. This episode connects to their ongoing series revisiting the events portrayed in the film with some of its subjects and others, which you can listen to here.
ReComradations:
Evan: action figure youtubers
Gordon: [1] Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk [2] Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
Marc: Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossed
James Gunn and Peter Safran are the co-CEOs of DC Studios, Warner Brothers Discovery's creative entity charged with righting the ship of DC films, television, animation, and games. What's in store for this first chapter of DC storytelling? New takes on Batman & Robin, Superman, and the whole world of weirdos at DC await. Like The Rock promised, the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe has changed. #freethepeoplesjoker
Articles Discussed:
Comic Book Homework:
The Omega Men
The Green Lantern: Intergalactic Lawman
Mister Miracle
Strange Adventures
Justice League: Gods and Monsters, dir. Sam Liu (2015)
Friend of the show and host of No Cartridge Audio, Trevor Strunk (@hegelbon) returns to discuss director Jane Schoenbrun's horror film We're All Going to the World's Fair. We talk moldavite, Roblox, art and escapism, identity, queer cinema, Atlus games, and connecting with strangers on the computer.
The Shimmering Screen: Jane Schoenbrun's transient aesthetic by Sailor Dinnucci-Radley | Letterboxd Journal
ReComradations
Trev: [1] Marble Hornets [2] Danganronpa
Evan: [1] When Women Kill, dir. Lee Grant (1983) [2] Persona 5 & Shin Megami Tensei 5
Writer, researcher, and fellow podcaster from Invisible Institutions (also on the Harbinger Media Network,) Megan Linton joins me for this discussion on collective anxiety in the age of COVID, disability and institutionalization, and the masterful direction of Akira Kurosawa in this story of an elderly foundry owner facing the threat of conservatorship over his fear of another atomic attack on Japan in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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Drama. Faux feminism. Gaslighting. It's all here.
Olivia Wilde's follow-up to Booksmart is here and it isn't good! Caitlin and Laura return to the show to discuss the cooler stories this film could have told, its tired politics, some juicy behind-the-scenes Hollywood gossip, and the interior design choices we liked.
ReComradations
Evan: Hold the Girl - Rina Sawayama
Caitlin: How Should a Person Be? by Shiela Heti
Laura: Catch Me If You Can, dir. Steven Spielberg (2002)
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