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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastBMX Bandits (1983)Hold onto your handlebars. This week we’re hitting the streets for BMX Bandits (1983) — the sun-soaked Australian cult classic that turned bike riding into a full-blown adventure and introduced the world to a young Nicole Kidman before Hollywood came calling. This isn’t just a kids’ movie — it’s a time capsule of 80s energy, DIY thrills, and pure, pedal-powered chaos.Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, the film follows three Sydney teens — P.J., Goose, and Judy — who stumble upon a stash of stolen police radios and quickly find themselves tangled in a cat-and-mouse game with bumbling bank robbers. What st...
2026-04-2758 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastIn Bruges (2008)This week we’re heading to the cobblestone streets of In Bruges — Martin McDonagh’s darkly hilarious and unexpectedly heartfelt crime tale that blends sharp wit with existential dread. Equal parts comedy, tragedy, and character study, In Bruges turns a picturesque Belgian city into the backdrop for guilt, redemption, and some very bad decisions.In Bruges follows two Irish hitmen, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), who are sent to lay low in the medieval city of Bruges after a job goes horribly wrong. While Ken embraces the city’s quiet beauty and history, Ray spirals into gui...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastNightcrawler (2014)You gotta watch the city—and know what sells. This week, we’re chasing the story into the night with Nightcrawler (2014) — the slick, disturbing, neon-soaked thriller that turns ambition into something predatory. If you’ve ever wondered how far someone will go to get ahead, this is the movie that answers: all the way.Directed and written by Dan Gilroy, the film follows Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), a driven but morally unmoored drifter who stumbles into the world of freelance crime journalism in Los Angeles. Armed with a police scanner, a camera, and an unsettling amount of determin...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastManhunter (1986)This week we’re stepping into the shadows and breaking down Manhunter (1986) — Michael Mann’s sleek, psychological thriller that introduced audiences to one of cinema’s most chilling villains long before The Silence of the Lambs. Stylish, haunting, and ahead of its time, Manhunter blends neon-soaked visuals with a deeply unsettling dive into the mind of a killer—and the man trying to stop him.Manhunter follows former FBI profiler Will Graham (played by William Petersen), who’s pulled out of retirement to track down a brutal serial killer known as “The Tooth Fairy.” To catch him, Graham must once...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastIron Man 2 (2010)This week we’re suiting up and breaking down Iron Man 2 (2010) — the high-octane, swagger-filled sequel that helped cement the foundation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Man 2 brings Robert Downey Jr. back as Tony Stark, the genius billionaire grappling with his own mortality, the pressures of being Iron Man, and a growing list of enemies closing in from all sides.We’re diving into everything: Jon Favreau’s expansion of the Iron Man world, the introduction of Natasha Romanoff (played by Scarlett Johansson), Mickey Rourke’s electric turn as the vengeful Ivan Vanko, and Sam Rockwell stealing scenes as...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Color of Money (1986)This week we're racking up and breaking down The Color of Money (1986) — Martin Scorsese's gritty, stylish sequel to The Hustler and one of the most underrated sports dramas of the 1980s. Paul Newman returns as "Fast Eddie" Felson, the legendary pool shark turned liquor salesman who finds a new shot at glory when he crosses paths with Vincent Lauria — a raw, electric Tom Cruise at his most charismatic — and his sharp, scene-stealing girlfriend Carmen, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.We're breaking down everything: Scorsese's signature direction, the film's iconic billiards sequences, that unforgettable 80s soundtrack featuring Eric Clapton an...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastHackers (1995)Hack the planet! This week we're diving deep into Hackers (1995) — the wildly stylish, neon-soaked cult classic that somehow captured the rebellious spirit of early internet culture before most people even knew what the internet was. Directed by Iain Softley, the film follows a crew of teenage hackers led by Dade Murphy, aka "Zero Cool," aka "Crash Override" (Jonny Lee Miller), who uncover a massive corporate extortion conspiracy and find themselves hunted by the Secret Service and the villainous Eugene "The Plague" Belford (Fisher Stevens). Oh, and a little-known actress named Angelina Jolie shows up as "Acid Burn" .We'r...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastBoiling Point (2021)This week we're stepping into the kitchen — and we are not coming out alive. Boiling Point (2021) is one of the most technically audacious and emotionally brutal British films of the decade, and we're breaking down every single nerve-shredding minute of it.Directed by Philip Barantini, this one-shot film — meaning the entire movie is filmed in a single, unbroken take — is set in a packed London restaurant on the busiest night of the year. Stephen Graham plays Andy Jones, a charismatic but crumbling head chef balancing a knife's edge of personal and professional crises as a surprise health and safe...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastCool Hand Luke (1967)What we've got here is a failure to communicate — and this week, we're fixing that. We're going deep on Cool Hand Luke (1967), one of the greatest American films ever made and arguably the role that cemented Paul Newman as a cinematic legend for all time.Directed by Stuart Rosenberg and based on Donn Pearce's semi-autobiographical 1965 novel, the film follows Lucas "Luke" Jackson — a decorated war veteran and nonconformist convict in an early 1950s Florida prison camp who refuses, at every turn, to submit to the system. George Kennedy plays Dragline, the yard's resident heavy who ends up admiri...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastApocalypto (2006)A civilization in collapse. A man running for his life. And one of the most relentlessly intense survival thrillers ever committed to film. This week we're covering Apocalypto (2006) — Mel Gibson's audacious, visceral, and deeply controversial epic that somehow shouldn't work and yet absolutely, completely does.Directed and produced by Mel Gibson, the film follows Jaguar Paw, a young Mesoamerican hunter whose village is raided by an invading force. He and his fellow tribesmen are dragged on a harrowing journey to a Maya city for human sacrifice, at a time when the Maya civilization is already crumbling from with...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastRounders (1998)Listen to your gut, Mike. This week we're sitting down at the table for Rounders (1998) — the underground poker cult classic that didn't just capture a world, it helped create one. This is the movie that launched a thousand poker careers, and we're dealing every single card.Directed by John Dahl and written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the film follows Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), a gifted New York law student and poker prodigy who loses his entire bankroll to Russian mobster and underground card room operator Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). He goes straight — until his fast-talking, self-d...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastSuper Troopers (2001)The time is meow. This week we're pulling over Super Troopers (2001) — one of the greatest cult comedies ever made, a film that critics mostly dismissed, audiences absolutely devoured, and basically an entire generation still quotes on a daily basis. Litracola. Meow. Chicken fucker. You know the ones.Written, directed by, and starring the Broken Lizard comedy group — Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske — the film follows five bored, prank-obsessed Vermont state troopers who stumble onto a drug smuggling ring while fighting to keep their station from being shut down by budget cuts, all whil...
2026-02-0955 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastCon Air (1997)Put the bunny back in the box. This week we're boarding the Jailbird for Con Air (1997) — the most gloriously unhinged, completely self-aware, and relentlessly entertaining action blockbuster of the entire 1990s. And yes, we are going to talk about the mullet.Directed by Simon West in his feature directorial debut and produced by the legendary Jerry Bruckheimer, Con Air follows Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage), a former Army Ranger who — freshly paroled for manslaughter — finds himself trapped aboard a federal prison transport plane hijacked by the most dangerous criminals in America. Leading the chaos is John Malkovich as Cyrus "The...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastTrue Detective S1, Pt. 2 (2014)Time is a flat circle. And this week, we're going back to Louisiana. We're covering True Detective Season 1 (2014) part 2 — covering the last four of the eight episodes of HBO television so dense, so atmospheric, and so staggeringly well-performed that nothing before or since has quite matched it. This is the one that redefined what prestige TV could be.Created by Nic Pizzolatto and directed in its entirety by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the season follows Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Woody Harrelson) as they investigate the ritualistic murder of a wo...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastTrue Detective S1, Pt. 1 (2014)Time is a flat circle. And this week, we're going back to Louisiana. We're covering True Detective Season 1 (2014) part 1 — covering the first four of the eight episodes of HBO television so dense, so atmospheric, and so staggeringly well-performed that nothing before or since has quite matched it. This is the one that redefined what prestige TV could be.Created by Nic Pizzolatto and directed in its entirety by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the season follows Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Woody Harrelson) as they investigate the ritualistic murder of a wo...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastSnow Angels (2007)This week we're shining a light on a film that almost nobody saw and almost everyone who did was completely shattered by. Snow Angels (2007) is one of the most devastating, achingly human, and woefully overlooked American dramas of the last 25 years — and it's time the world knew about it.Written and directed by David Gordon Green and based on Stewart O'Nan's 1994 novel, the film is set in a small Pennsylvania town in winter and weaves together two parallel stories: a shy, awkward teenager named Arthur (Michael Angarano) falling tentatively and sweetly into his first love with a new...
2026-01-1256 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastSmokin' Aces (2007)Everybody wants Buddy Israel dead. And this week, we want to talk about Smokin' Aces (2007) — the gloriously unhinged, hyperkinetic, Tarantino-adjacent crime thriller that critics mostly dismissed and audiences absolutely lost their minds over. This is one of the most chaotically entertaining films of the entire 2000s, and it doesn't get nearly enough credit.Written and directed by Joe Carnahan, the film centers on Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) — a Las Vegas magician turned mob associate who agrees to turn state's evidence against the mob, triggering a one-million-dollar bounty that sends every assassin, hit man, bounty hunter, and psycho...
2026-01-0557 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Wizard (1989)I love the Power Glove. It's so bad. This week we're plugging in our NES cartridges and heading cross-country for The Wizard (1989) — the gloriously shameless, utterly endearing, feature-length Nintendo advertisement that somehow also managed to be one of the most beloved cult films of an entire generation's childhood.Directed by Todd Holland, the film follows three kids on a road trip to California to compete in a massive video game tournament called Video Armageddon — brothers Corey (Fred Savage) and Jimmy (Luke Edwards), a withdrawn boy processing the trauma of his sister's death who turns out to be a supe...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastHome Alone (1990)Keep the change, ya filthy animal. This week we're heading to Winnetka, Illinois for Home Alone (1990) — one of the most beloved, most rewatched, and most endlessly quotable Christmas films in the history of cinema. This is the movie that made Macaulay Culkin a superstar, cemented John Hughes as the king of American family comedy, and somehow became a holiday institution watched by hundreds of millions of people every single December around the world.Written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus, the film stars Macaulay Culkin as eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, accidentally left behind when his...
2025-12-2259 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastDie Hard (1988)Yippee-ki-yay. This week we're heading to Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve for Die Hard (1988) — the film that didn't just launch one of the greatest action franchises of all time, it fundamentally rewrote the rules of what an action movie could be, invented the modern everyman hero, and sparked a holiday debate that is somehow still raging 35 years later. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? We're settling it. For good. Maybe.Directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven de Souza, Die Hard follows New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) — in town on Christmas...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastMoon (2009)Wake up, Sam. This week we're orbiting one of the most quietly stunning, deeply human, and criminally underappreciated science fiction films of the 21st century. Moon (2009) is a film that does more with less than almost anything else in the genre — and if you haven't seen it, we're about to change your life.The feature film directorial debut of Duncan Jones — yes, David Bowie's son — Moon was specifically written as a vehicle for Sam Rockwell, and what Rockwell delivers here is nothing short of one of the greatest one-man performances in modern cinema. The film follows Sam Bell, a ma...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastEdward Scissorhands (1990)Hold still. This week we're climbing the hill to the castle at the edge of the pastel suburb for Edward Scissorhands (1990) — Tim Burton's most personal, most achingly beautiful, and most enduring film. A Gothic fairy tale about loneliness, belonging, and the cruelty of the ordinary world toward anyone who dares to be different. And one of the most quietly devastating love stories ever put on screen.Written by Caroline Thompson from a story she developed with Burton, the film follows Edward — an unfinished artificial humanoid with scissor blades instead of hands, the incomplete creation of a dying invent...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastFor A Few Dollars More (1965)When the chimes end — begin. This week we're riding into the Almería desert for For a Few Dollars More (1965) — the second film in Sergio Leone's legendary Dollars Trilogy, and the one that gets the least attention despite being, by almost any measure, the most fully realized, most emotionally complex, and most flat-out thrilling of the three.Directed by Sergio Leone, the film stars Clint Eastwood as Manco — the Man with No Name — and Lee Van Cleef as Colonel Douglas Mortimer, a rival bounty hunter whose motivation turns out to be something far more personal than money. Together, t...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastFight Club (1999)The first rule of this podcast episode is: you absolutely talk about Fight Club. This week we're going deep on Fight Club (1999) — David Fincher's savage, visually revolutionary, and endlessly debated psychological thriller that bombed at the box office in 1999, became the defining cult movie of its generation on DVD, and has never stopped being argued about since.Based on Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel and adapted for the screen by Jim Uhls, the film follows an unnamed insomniac narrator (Edward Norton) — disenchanted with his sterile white-collar life and IKEA-catalog existence — who meets the electric, charismatic, and dangerously free Tyler Durden...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastInherent Vice (2014)Don't worry if you don't follow the plot. Nobody does. And that's entirely the point. This week we're lighting one up and drifting into Inherent Vice (2014) — Paul Thomas Anderson's deliriously funny, achingly melancholy, and deliberately bewildering adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel, and one of the most singular, purely cinematic experiences of the last decade. This is the film that rewards surrender over comprehension.Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and based on Pynchon's 2009 novel — the first Pynchon work ever adapted for the screen — the film follows Larry "Doc" Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), a perpetually stoned hippie private investig...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Lost Boys (1987)Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire. This week we're riding into Santa Carla for The Lost Boys (1987) — Joel Schumacher's supremely stylish, wickedly funny, endlessly rewatchable 80s horror masterpiece that didn't just make vampires cool, it permanently redefined what vampire movies could look and feel like.Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film follows two teenage brothers — Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) — who move with their divorced mother Lucy (Dianne Wiest) to the fictional California beach town of Santa Carla, only to discover it's the murder capital...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastScream (1996)What's your favorite scary movie? This week we're heading to Woodsboro for Scream (1996) — Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's genre-shattering, self-aware, wickedly clever slasher masterpiece that didn't just revive a dying genre, it completely reinvented it and changed the course of horror cinema forever.Directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, the film follows high school student Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), who on the anniversary of her mother's murder becomes the target of a masked killer known as Ghostface. The cast around her is extraordinary — Courteney Cox as the ruthlessly ambitious reporter Gale Weathers, David Arquette as the...
2025-10-271h 08
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Guest (2014)Hello. I served with your son. This week we're unlocking the front door and letting in The Guest (2014) — Adam Wingard's neon-soaked, synth-drenched, John Carpenter-worshipping action thriller that is simultaneously one of the most purely entertaining genre films of the decade and one of the most quietly devastating post-9/11 meditations on what America does to its soldiers. Also, Dan Stevens is absolutely terrifying and magnetic and you will not be able to take your eyes off him for a single second.Written by Simon Barrett and directed by Adam Wingard, the film follows David (Dan Stevens), a US sold...
2025-10-201h 05
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastOne Battle After Another (2025)No fear. Just like Tom Cruise. This week we're going all in on One Battle After Another (2025) — Paul Thomas Anderson's thundering, dizzying, deeply American epic that has critics calling it his masterpiece, awards voters showering it with nominations, and audiences either completely electrified or walking out in the first five minutes. This is the most talked-about film of the year, and we have a lot to say about it.Written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland, the film follows washed-up ex-revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) — a stoned, paranoid recluse living...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastJohn Carpenter's Vampires (1998)A vampire isn't a romantic figure in a frilly shirt with a euro-trash accent. This week we're strapping on the crossbow and heading into the New Mexico desert for John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) — the wildest, most unapologetically savage, and most criminally underrated vampire film of the entire 90s. This is the anti-Interview with the Vampire. This is what happens when John Carpenter decides to make a vampire western.Directed and scored by John Carpenter and adapted from John Steakley's novel Vampire$, the film follows Jack Crow (James Woods) — a lifelong vampire slayer raised by the Catholic Church after his par...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastGood Will Hunting (1997)It's not your fault. This week we're heading to South Boston for Good Will Hunting (1997) — one of the most beloved, most emotionally devastating, and most enduringly powerful American dramas ever made. The film that launched Matt Damon and Ben Affleck into the stratosphere, gave Robin Williams his Oscar, and made an entire generation feel seen in ways they didn't know they needed.Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck — then unknown young actors in their mid-twenties — the film follows Will Hunting (Damon), a self-taught mathematical genius from working-class South Boston who works as...
2025-09-291h 13
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)Nobody would come out of their trailer. This week we're shipwrecked on the most chaotic film set in Hollywood history for The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996) — a movie so legendarily, spectacularly, cosmically doomed that the story of how it got made is more entertaining than the film itself. And the film itself, in its own deranged way, is absolutely unmissable.Based on H.G. Wells' 1896 novel and directed by John Frankenheimer — who was brought in as a replacement director halfway through the first week of shooting — the film stars Marlon Brando as the ice-bucket-hat-wearing, papal-throne-riding mad scientist Dr. More...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastWedding Crashers (2005)Rule number one: never leave a fellow crasher behind. This week we're suiting up, picking a fake name, and crashing Wedding Crashers (2005) — the wildly funny, endlessly rewatchable, R-rated comedy that didn't just dominate the summer of 2005, it permanently changed the economics of adult comedy in Hollywood and gave us one of the greatest big-screen comedic pairings of the entire decade.Directed by David Dobkin, the film follows divorce mediators and lifelong best friends John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) — who spend every wedding season crashing receptions across the DC area to eat free food, drink...
2025-09-151h 07
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastSpeed (1994)Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. If the bus drops below 50 miles per hour, the bomb explodes. What do you do? What do you do? This week we're strapping in for Speed (1994) — Jan de Bont's perfectly engineered, relentlessly propulsive, gloriously ridiculous action masterpiece that launched Sandra Bullock into superstardom, cemented Keanu Reeves as one of the great action heroes of his generation, and gave Dennis Hopper one of the most enjoyably unhinged villain roles of the entire decade.Directed by Jan de Bont in his feature film directorial debut and written by Graham Yost, the...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastPoint Break (1991)Vaya con Dios, Brah. This week we're paddling out for Point Break (1991) — Kathryn Bigelow's electrifying, sun-drenched, adrenaline-soaked action masterpiece that is simultaneously one of the greatest pure action films ever made and one of the most unexpectedly emotional stories about obsession, identity, and the intoxicating pull of a life lived completely without limits. This movie should not work as well as it does. It absolutely does.Directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay by W. Peter Iliff — developed in collaboration with her then-husband James Cameron — the film follows Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), a hotshot rookie FBI agent and form...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)Turtle power. This week we're dropping into the sewers of New York City for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) — the scrappy, gritty, genuinely surprising independent film that every major Hollywood studio passed on, became the highest-grossing independent film of its time, and defined the childhood of an entire generation. This movie is a bigger deal than people remember. We're making the case.Directed by Steve Barron and distributed by New Line Cinema — which at the time was a small independent company better known for low-budget B-movies — the film follows Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael as they surface from the sewe...
2025-08-2558 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastFace/Off (1997)I could eat a peach for hours. This week we're going full operatic chaos for Face/Off (1997) — John Woo's barnstorming, dove-releasing, slow-motion-shooting, completely unhinged masterpiece that stands as not only the crown jewel of peak Nicolas Cage, not only the greatest film of John Travolta's career, but possibly the single most maximalist, most joyfully excessive, most purely cinematic action film ever produced by Hollywood. This movie is beyond category. It simply exists on its own plane.Directed by John Woo in his first Hollywood film with complete creative control and written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, the...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Big Lebowski (1998)The Dude abides. This week we're mixing a White Russian, lacing up our bowling shoes, and settling in for The Big Lebowski (1998) — the Coen Brothers' gloriously shaggy, endlessly quotable, impossibly warm masterpiece of American absurdist cinema that bombed with critics on release, baffled audiences who expected another Fargo, and then slowly, inexorably became one of the most beloved cult films in movie history. This is the one. This is the film that spawned an actual religion. We need to talk about it.Written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, the film follows Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebow...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastSnatch (2000)Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible c*** — me. This week we're deep in the London criminal underworld for Snatch (2000) — Guy Ritchie's hyperkinetic, impossibly quotable, perfectly engineered crime comedy that took everything brilliant about Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and somehow made it better, faster, funnier, and even more gleefully chaotic. This film goes so hard it practically vibrates.Written and directed by Guy Ritchie, the film weaves together two intertwined plots set in the London criminal underworld: one following a stolen...
2025-08-041h 13
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastApocalypse Now (1979)The horror. The horror. This week we're going upriver for Apocalypse Now (1979) — Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory, operatic, psychologically devastating Vietnam War epic that is simultaneously one of the greatest films ever made and the product of one of the most chaotic, dangerous, nearly fatal film productions in Hollywood history. This is the movie Coppola said wasn't about Vietnam — it was Vietnam. And watching it, you believe him.Written by Coppola and John Milius with narration by Michael Herr and loosely adapted from Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, the film follows Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a haunted Special F...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastFull Metal Jacket (1987)This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. This week we're shipping out to Parris Island and then straight into the Battle of Hué for Full Metal Jacket (1987) — Stanley Kubrick's ice-cold, darkly hilarious, and profoundly disturbing Vietnam War film that has generated one of the most passionately argued structural debates in all of cinema: is the first half so brilliant that the second half can never match it — or is that the whole point?Directed and produced by Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Vietnam War correspondent Michael Herr and novelis...
2025-07-2158 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastPlatoon (1986)We did not fight the enemy. We fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us. This week we're going into the jungle for Platoon (1986) — Oliver Stone's raw, autobiographical, Academy Award-winning Vietnam War masterpiece that didn't just win Best Picture — it finally gave a generation of veterans the film they had been waiting a decade to see. This is the film where Stone settled his debts with the war. And it shows in every frame.Written and directed by Stone — himself a Vietnam War veteran who had struggled for over a decade to get the film made — Platoon follows Chri...
2025-07-141h 15
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastGleaming the Cube (1989)Gleaming the cube: pushing your limits to the edge. This week we're grabbing our boards, ditching class, and rolling hard into Gleaming the Cube (1989) — the utterly singular, completely unhinged, gloriously committed late-80s teen thriller in which a teenage skateboarder investigates his adopted Vietnamese brother's murder using exclusively the power of skateboarding. This movie exists. It is real. And we need to talk about it at length.Directed by Graeme Clifford and starring Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 17-year-old Orange County skateboarder who refuses to accept the official ruling that his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh died by s...
2025-07-071h 10
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastAmerican Psycho (2000)Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? This week we're slipping on our morning moisturizer, reviewing business cards with horrifying intensity, and diving headfirst into American Psycho (2000) — Mary Harron's ice-cold, wickedly funny, deeply unsettling satire of 1980s Wall Street masculinity that was nearly destroyed by studio interference, saved by a director who understood exactly what it was, and has since become one of the most quoted, memed, and genuinely misunderstood films in modern cinema history.Directed by Mary Harron and co-written with Guinevere Turner, based on Bret Easton Ellis's controversial 1991 novel, the film follows Patrick Bateman (Chri...
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Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastKingpin (1996)He just got Munsoned. This week we're lacing up our rental shoes and rolling into Kingpin (1996) — the Farrelly Brothers' dark, mean, outrageously funny sophomore film that bombed spectacularly at the box office upon release, got overlooked in the shadow of Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary, and has spent the three decades since quietly building a cult following among people who understand that this might be the best thing the Farrellys ever made. And it has Bill Murray at his most unhinged and magnificent. Come on. That alone is enough.Directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the fil...
2025-06-231h 05
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)He was famous the way that people are afraid to be famous. And the man who killed him became famous for nothing else. This week we're riding into the long golden prairie dusk for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) — Andrew Dominik's hypnotic, achingly beautiful, deliberately paced meditation on fame, obsession, myth, and the terrible weight of being a legend that nobody wanted to see in theaters in 2007 and that everybody now agrees is one of the greatest Westerns — and one of the greatest American films — of the 21st century. This is the one. We need to...
2025-06-161h 11
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastBurn After Reading (2008)Report back to me when... uh, I don't know. When it makes sense. This week we're deep inside the most gloriously misanthropic, casually catastrophic, and criminally underappreciated entry in the entire Coen Brothers filmography — Burn After Reading (2008). This is the film the Coens made immediately after winning Best Picture for No Country for Old Men, assembled the most absurdly stacked cast imaginable, wrote specifically for each actor, and then watched as critics shrugged and audiences mostly moved on. Fifteen years later, this film is getting a serious reappraisal. We're leading the charge.Written, directed, and edited by Joel...
2025-06-0957 min
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastBlow (2001)Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on. This week we're going deep on Blow (2001) — Ted Demme's visceral, emotionally devastating, criminally underappreciated biographical crime drama that tells the true story of George Jung — the Massachusetts kid who accidentally helped establish the American cocaine market in the 1970s, built a $100 million empire with the Medellín Cartel, and lost absolutely everything, including the one person he loved most. This is not a film about drugs. It's a...
2025-06-021h 00
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastThe Town (2010)I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people. Whose car we gonna take? This week we're heading to Charlestown for The Town (2010) — Ben Affleck's lean, brutal, impeccably crafted crime thriller that stands as the single most definitive argument for Ben Affleck as one of the most natural and instinctive directors of his generation. This is the film that made the world stop asking about Gigli and start asking when his next film was coming out. And it absolutely holds up.Co-wri...
2025-05-271h 10
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastSwingers (1996)You're so money, baby. You're so money and you don't even know it. This week we're sliding into a booth at the Dresden Lounge for Swingers (1996) — Jon Favreau's razor-sharp, effortlessly cool, painfully funny and quietly heartbreaking independent film about heartbreak, male friendship, and the desperate grind of trying to make it in Hollywood that launched three of the most significant careers of the late 1990s, entered the cultural vocabulary permanently, and has only gotten better with age. This is the movie that made everyone say "baby" for two years. We are not apologizing.Written by Jon Favreau — who co...
2025-05-191h 00
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastDrive (2011)There's a hundred thousand streets in this city. You don't need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a five-minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. I don't sit in while you're running it down. I don't carry a gun. I drive. This week we're behind the wheel of Drive (2011) — Nicolas Winding Refn's hypnotic, neon-drenched, brutally violent, achingly romantic neo-noir that arrived in 2011 and has spent every year since cementing its reputation as one of the defining films of the 21st century. The scorpion jacket. The toothpick. The...
2025-05-121h 09
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastPrometheus (2012)Big things have small beginnings. This week we're suiting up and heading to LV-223 for Prometheus (2012) — Ridley Scott's visually stunning, philosophically audacious, infuriatingly imperfect, and genuinely one-of-a-kind science fiction film that arrived as one of the most anticipated films in decades, divided audiences immediately and spectacularly, and has been argued about with extraordinary passion every single year since. You either love it, hate it, think it's underrated, think it's overrated, or cycle through all four positions depending on the week. This is one of those films. We need to talk about it properly.Directed by Ridley Scott and...
2025-05-051h 02
Regular or Menthol: Kino Movies PodcastReservoir Dogs (1992)Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite? This week we're holing up in the warehouse for Reservoir Dogs (1992) — Quentin Tarantino's incendiary, electrifying, endlessly quotable feature-length debut that premiered at Sundance, became the most talked-about film in the festival's history, changed independent cinema forever, and launched one of the most significant directorial careers of the 20th century on a budget of approximately $1.2 million. There are great debut films. And then there is Reservoir Dogs, which operates in a category entirely by itself.Written and directed by Tarantino in his feature-length directorial debut, the f...
2025-04-2851 min