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Operation Kino

182 Episodes

44 minutes | Nov 15, 2013
Operation Kino 139: Nebraska, Black And White Ennui And A Million-Dollar Promise
This week we're cashing in that $1 million sweepstakes offer and heading to the black and white Midwest, as we're joined by Time Out New York's Keith Uhlich to review Alexander Payne's Nebraska.
52 minutes | Nov 12, 2013
Operation Kino 139: The Future Of Marvel And Of Dumb Hunger Games Marketing
This week we're processing both the weekend performance of Thor: The Dark World and Marvel Studio's giant deal with Netflix to talk about the future of Marvel comics, and how in the coming years pretty much everything Disney makes will be tied together.
38 minutes | Nov 8, 2013
Operation Kino 138 Review: Following Thor Into The Dark World
This week we're finally learning to pronounce Mjolnir and failing to remember the name of the MacGuffin this time, as we review the latest Marvel Studios effort Thor: The Dark World. For help, Patches and Katey bring in Badass Digest's Devin Faraci.
53 minutes | Nov 5, 2013
Operation Kino 138: John Ratzenberger On Pixar, Cheers, American Made, And Pirate Songs
This week we're incredibly thrilled to have as our guest John Ratzenberger, the iconic star of Cheers and every single Pixar movie, who's joining us to talk about his new TV series "American Made," which is currently launching a Fund Anything campaign.
35 minutes | Nov 1, 2013
Operation Kino 137 Review: Celebrating The McConaughssiance In Dallas Buyers Club
This week we're packing our trunks full of illegal prescription drugs and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as we join the Dallas Buyers Club, which was both a real group that got HIV-treatment drugs from Mexico and also a new movie.
63 minutes | Oct 29, 2013
Operation Kino 137: David vs. Copyright Law, The Future Of Late Night, And A New Quiz Time!
This week we're waging war all over the place. David recounts his recent scuffle with Vimeo and gets into the future of copyright law and filmmaking and the Internet, Patches wonders why Jimmy Fallon isn't living up to his potential...
41 minutes | Oct 25, 2013
Operation Kino 136 Review: Unspeakable Acts On A Windshield With The Counselor
This week we've brought in big gun support from Jordan Hoffman, and he's doing some unspeakable things on top of the windshield of our car, as we review Ridley Scott's The Counselor. That plus your picks for your favorite movie sex scenes!
56 minutes | Oct 22, 2013
Operation Kino 136: Ridley Scott's Directing Skills, Plus Our Favorite Sex Scenes
This week Katey has temporarily defected to England, so the boys are left to discuss Ridley Scott, and his credentials as an auteur director, in honor of this week's The Counselor and inspired by Facebook user Jake Bart.
37 minutes | Oct 18, 2013
Operation Kino 135: 12 Years A Slave Cuts To The Bone Of American History
This week we're just going to avoid the jokes and cut straight to the chase, since we're reviewing 12 Years A Slave and somehow that just doesn't put us in the laughing mood. For once, though, it's not David who's the dissenter!
65 minutes | Oct 15, 2013
Operation Kino 135: Classic Film History With The Legendary David Picker, And NYFF In Review
This week we've got a special interview with David Picker, a former studio head who helped wrangle Woody Allen, James Bond, and The Beatles for United Artists, greenlight Grease for Paramount, and turned Steve Martin into a movie star.
31 minutes | Oct 12, 2013
Operation Kino 134 Review: The Unbearable Tension Of Captain Phillips
This week we're launching onto the high seas and being very, very clear about the location of our seat inside the lifeboat, as we review the tense new Paul Greengrass thriller Captain Phillips.
64 minutes | Oct 8, 2013
Operation Kino 134: Escaping From Tomorrow With Special Guest Roy Abramsohn
This week we're joined by a very special guest, with Roy Abramsohn talking to us not only about his starring role in the upcoming Escape From Tomorrow, but about the state of the Disney brand...
35 minutes | Oct 4, 2013
Operation Kino 133: The Terror Of Beauty Of Space In Gravity
This week we're holding our breath and using the last of the fuel in our jetpacks as we brave terrifying space and review Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. All four of us saw it, but not all four of us are onboard with the rapturous critical reception.
63 minutes | Oct 1, 2013
Operation Kino 133: Breaking Bad In Review, And How It Might Change TV
This week we're devoting the entire show to talking about Breaking Bad, both the series finale and the show as a whole as well as the legacy it will leave and how television might change in its wake.
18 minutes | Sep 27, 2013
Operation Kino 132 Review: Rush! Vroom Vroom!
This week we're strapped in, revving our engines and trying desperately not to get flattened by the competition as we go all Formula One and review Ron Howard's Rush. Spoiler alert: there is far less arguing on this one than usual!
39 minutes | Sep 24, 2013
Operation Kino 132: The Authors Of Rush, The Best Food Porn And More
This week we're trying to figure out if Rush is a film by Ron Howard or maybe by Anthony Dod Mantle, talking about auteurs who might not be the directors of their given films.
46 minutes | Sep 20, 2013
Operation Kino 131 Review: The Torture And Heavy-Handed Religion Of Prisoners
This week we're not taking "I'm innocent" for an answer, as we take the movie Prisoners, lock it in our torture shower, and demand that it give us answers about how dreamy Roger Deakins is in person.
47 minutes | Sep 18, 2013
Operation Kino 131: TV Criticism Online, Where Crazy Theories Grow Like Meth Empires
This week we're finally cracking down on the symbolism of Skyler White's hairdos, as we dig into modern TV criticism and the theorizing that can surround it. David fills us in on the rest of his Toronto Film Festival experience...
34 minutes | Sep 13, 2013
Operation Kino 130 Review: Tearing Down White People Problems In Enough Said
This week we're tearing down the idea of "white people problems"-- or at the very least embracing them-- as we're joined by Film School Rejects' Kate Erbland to review Enough Said, the new film from director Nicole Holofcener.
47 minutes | Sep 10, 2013
Operation Kino 13O: A Toronto Film Festival Check-In, Poutine Not Included
This week we've reached across international borders to check in with our own David, who is in the thick of the Toronto Film Festival but has somehow avoided eating poutine (so far). We also talk about the future of the Terminator franchise...
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