Kino Lefter

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62 - The Gentlemen, or, Guy Ritchie Success Posting Jan 29, 2020

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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 (dir. Matthew Rankin)
Abdul: Beyond the Peasant International (The Anarchist Library)
Laura: [1] Free Transit YEG (twitter) [2] Laura and Paige Gorsak on The Progress Report [3] The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (dir. Wes Anderson)

PREVIEW: Crisis on Infinite Earths with Leslie Lee III Jan 27, 2020

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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?

61 - 1917 (Treaty of Versailles prequel movie) Jan 22, 2020

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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.
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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.

60 - Uncut Gems feat. Tyler from Alberta Advantage Jan 15, 2020

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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.
ReComradations:
Evan: F1 2019 (PS4)
Laura: (1) Upcoming leftist D&D podcast appearance and (2) Revolution Selfie at the Metro Cinema. (Ticket Info here)
Tyler: Pornographic Seizures by Sanguisugabogg

59 - Cats, or Deuteronomy Bottom Surgery Jan 08, 2020

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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 Says Her Cats Character is Trans (Out)

ReComradations:

Laura: The Golden Compass (HBO)
Abdul: Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage production of Sunset Boulevard
Evan: Pushing your boundaries and celebrating with your loved ones

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58 - The Rise of Skywalker, or Eichmann on Endor ft. Tristan Turner Dec 31, 2019

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Happy new years, Kino! We did the film everyone wanted us to do and inadvertently created the most toxic episode we've ever done.
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57 - A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby ft. Victoria Dee Dec 25, 2019

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Merry Christmas, we're joined by Victoria DeJong @tendergarbage from Heart Half Full, a podcast on kindness and self-care, to bring you our most disgusting episode ever.
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56 - Six Underground, or, Winning Syria with Magnets Dec 18, 2019

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The Michael Bay Defender has logged on.
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UNLOCKED: Blue Milk with Buddies ft. Coffee With Comrades Dec 17, 2019

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In honor(?) of the Skywalker Saga ending, we've unlocked the crossover with one of our favorite podcasts, COFFEE WITH COMRADES, as we discuss the Bush Era Star Wars Extravaganza, REVENGE OF THE SITH.
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55 - Dark Waters, or Fly Like a C8 Dec 10, 2019

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We watch Mark Ruffalo (we stan) pretend to be a West Virginian in this environmental drama that's basically designed specifically for the podcast
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Notes:

The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare by Nathaniel Rich
John Sayles on Work and Class in Movies from Film at Lincoln Center
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