Kino Lefter
A socialist podcast about movies and culture based in Edmonton, Alberta. New releases, throwbacks, TV and more get covered here and on our Patron-only feed. Host | Evan MacDonald Editor | Jamar Powell
Episodes
250 episodes
PREVIEW - Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark with Ava and Anna
Friends of the show Ava (@westcoastwinter) and Anna (@electricityska) join for a an investigation into the comedic stylings of Marc Maron, and th...
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150 - Chandler Levack on the making of I Like Movies
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...
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PREVIEW - The Book of Boba Fett: Twink Jawa with Vic
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...
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149 - Dune: Part One (2021) Messages From The Deep With Tyler, Sean, and Tristan
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 <...
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PREVIEW: Love is Blind Season Three with Sophie Hayes
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.
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148 - Discordia (2004) A Snapshot of Student Activism with Darts & Letters
Gordon and Marc from the Darts & Letters podcast join me to discuss the 2004 National Film Board document...
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147 - James Gunn Reveals the DC Studios Slate, Local Expert Weighs In
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 ...
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146 - We're All Going to the World's Fair with Trevor Strunk: Imaginary Futures and Moldavite
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 W...
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PREVIEW - Akira Kurosawa's I Live in Fear with Megan Linton
Writer, researcher, and fellow podcaster from Invisible Institutions (also on the Harbinger Media Network,) Megan Linton joins me for this discussi...
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145 - Don't Worry Darling - Gaslighting: The Movie with Caitlin & Laura
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 storie...
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL PREVIEW - What is a Woman? Commentary Track
I have prepared a little Halloween special for you all. I've wanted to record commentary tracks for a little while now, and this is a film that I think deserves one. What is a Woman? is the transphobic documentary from legitimate fasci...
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144 - Being Normal at the Georgia Guidestones: Alex's War with Big Shiny Takes
Alex Jones gets the kid gloves treatment from TFW No GF director Alex Moyer in Alex's War, a sanitized look at Jones' career and InfoWars leading up to the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. We discuss how the post-left has...
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143 - Mike & Evan Talk Obi-Wan Kenobi (eps. 1 & 2)
Friend of the show and audio wizard Mike (@olivesagan) came on the show immediately after the release of the Deborah Chow-directed Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi to chat with me about our rel...
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PREVIEW - Videodrome with Worst Case Ontario
Enjoy this clip from my conversation with the hilarious crew from Worst Case Ontario on the classic Canadian body horror masterpiece, Videodrome. This is a preview of Primo Lefter, our week...
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142 - Top Gun: Maverick, a Tale of Two Brothers (with my Brother Tyler)
Kino's back from its summer break, and what an episode to come back with.My brother Tyler joins me to share where our love of movies comes from, our Top Gun fanaticism, and our shared experiences of one of the best blockbusters to grace...
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141 - Return to Space: The Elon Musk Disrespect Hour with Paris Marx
Friend of the show Paris Marx is back to talk about the phenomenon of SpaceX propaganda on our beloved streaming platforms. Return to Space, directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhel...
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PREVIEW - Rise of the Planet of the Apes with Rob Rousseau
Takes From The Forbidden Zone is back! Rob Rousseau joins me to discuss the first film in the reboot/prequel trilogy, director Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes<...
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140 - Everything Everywhere All At Once with Dylan McKeever: taxes can be fun
Comedian, writer, and artist Dylan McKeever (@deemakes) joins Evan for a conversation on multiverse fiction, poverty, Asian-American experiences, and Avatar 2 on this week's Kino dedicated...
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PREVIEW - The Life and Living Death of Dr. Micheal Morbius with Tristan Turner
Literal angel and my best friend Tristan Turner rejoins the show for this milestone 90th episode of Primo Lefter on the latest disaster from the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, or SP...
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139 - X / Deep Water with Eli Olsberg: Are you familiar with Torque (2004)?
Eli Olsberg (Twitter/Letterboxd) visits Kino Nation for a deep dive on two strangely connected films: Ti West's new A24 slasher X and the dir...
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PREVIEW - Turning Red with Pia Co: "every screen in your home is a portal to the demonic"
Chef, former journalist, and all-around superstar Pia Co joins Evan this week to talk about the latest Pixar film, Domee Shi's Turning Red. Set in 2002 Toronto, it follows a young Chinese-Canadia...
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138 - jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy with Abdul Malik: West of Kanye by John Steinbeck
Kino keystone Abdul Malik returns for some F1 shit talk, the writing and projects he's been working on, and the brand-new Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy. We watch his conserva...
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137 - Annette / Titane with Rose (@rip_cinema): Metal Baby v Puppet Baby
Friend of the show Rose returns to the Kino fold for a stacked and thematically rich double feature: Leos Carax's Annette and Julia Ducournau's Titane. Family, trauma, gender, explo...
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