Kino Lefter

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

January 29, 2025 10 mins

As teased on the Wicked episode, Evan and Sophie (formerly of Dumb Bitch Media) have started a new show - Community Diagnosis. 

This is a comedy show where we get a chance to hang out and diagnosis the individuals and communities contributing to society's many issues. The first episode covers disgraced dead Canadian comedian Mike Bullard. Expect to hear more about Mike's misadventures, the world of stand-up comed...

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Laura and Sophie (@hogpussy) join me for the final episode of everyone's favourite movie podcast.

Thank you for listening! Look forward to a new creative venture coming your way soon.

ReComradations:
Sophie: King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild (audiobook)
Laura: [1] The Wizard of Oz (1939) [2] The Telepathy Tapes (podcast)
Evan: [1] The Great Silence (1963) [2] Catching Chickens - Nour...

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Abdul (@MarxGasol) and Jeremy (@jeremyappel1025) join from the Kino Lefter vault to discuss the smash hit film of a summer in our memory, Sound of Freedom.

Order Jeremy's book "Kennyism: Jason Kenney's Pursuit of Power" here. And subscribe to The Orchard, Jeremy's Substack.

Check out the movie Abdul wrote, Peace by Chocolate and check out Allegiance.

ReComradations:
Evan: Fa...

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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.

This is a preview of Primo Lefter, our premium show. You can visit our Patreon to get access to this episode, our archive, and every new episode. 

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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. 

Wa...

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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.

This is a preview of Primo Lefter, our premium show. You can visit our Patreon to get access to this episode, our archive, and every new episode. 

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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) 

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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!

This is a preview of Primo Lefter, our premium show. You can visit our Patreon to get access to this episode, our archive, and every new episode. 

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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 yout...

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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. #freethepeoplesjoke...

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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 Jour...

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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 W...

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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 P...

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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 fascist Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire website. They're in the movie-making business now, so in service to my listeners, I watched their movie. 

This is a preview of Primo Lefter, ou...

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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 embraced Jones and what this film means for the next phase of the MCU. Eric and Jeremy from Big Shiny Takes return.

ReComradations
Evan:
action figure YouTubers + Four Horsemen Studios...

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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 relationship to Star Wars and our first reactions to this series. With Andor streaming now, we will never not have Star Wars products to talk about until the day we die. 

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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 theatres in years.

ReComradations:
Evan:
Petite Maman, dir. Céline Sciamma (2021)
Tyler:
home renovations, and looking forward to Jurassic World: Dominion

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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 weekly premium show. You can visit our Patreon to get access to this episode, our archive, and a new episode every week. 


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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 Vasarhelyi, chronicles the quest of SpaceX to privatize space travel by sending two dads to the International Space Station.

ReComradations:
Evan:
watching Hong Sang-soo movies, and notably Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Paris:
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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 from 2011.

Listen to the whole series on Patreon for just $3/month. 

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