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 published: 2013-03-26Operation Kino 107: Spring Breakers Breakdown And Sci-Fi That's Almost Great This week special guest Scott Beggs joins us for a very serious and not at all sexy conversation about Spring Breakers and the cultural trope of the teen girl meltdown. Plus tidbits about The Sapphires and Andrew Niccol's sci-fi chops, remembrances of childhood toys gone by, and a lightning round question inspired by Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor.  filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-03-22Operation Kino 106 Review: Olympus Has Fallen! We Repeat, Olympus Has Fallen! Olympus has fallen, and the only person who can revive it is Eric D. Snider, who we bring in to help us review the new Gerard Butler action film Olympus Has Fallen. Is it too violent? Is it ridiculous? Is it kind of great? All that, plus your answers to our lightning round question about the next auteur to have a surprise hit filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-03-19Operation Kino 106: Jurassic Park 4 Speculation, VOD Confusion, And A Days Of Heaven Throwdown This week we bring in publicist Brandon Rohwer to help us dig through the confusing world that is VOD film rentals, but only after we indulge in some speculation about Jurassic Park 4. Katey has a tidbit about catching up with Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, Da7e wants you to know about the greatness of TV's Robot Combat League, and we all answer a lightning round question inspired by the surprise box office success of Spring Breakers filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-03-15Operation Kino 105 Review: Ginger & Rosa & Nuclear Bombs & Teenage Drama Choosing to ignore a movie about Halle Berry on a phone and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (despite the fact that Patches has hired himself as the movie's new publicist), we review the super-small release Ginger & Rosa, from director Sally Potter. It stars up-and-coming actresses Elle Fanning and Alice Englert (or, if you're David, "Jane Campion's daughter") filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-03-12Operation Kino 105: Visual Effects Industry In Turmoil, Spring Breakers, And The Return Of Film Centipede This week we dig into the recent turmoil in the visual effects industry, celebrate the return of Film Centipede, talk about the storytelling tactics in Dungeons & Dragons and fall hard for Spring Breakers. All that plus a lightning round inspired by The Incredible Burt Wonderstone filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-03-08Operation Kino 104 Review: Oz The Great And Powerful Both Dazzles And Disappoints If you hated Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland the way we did, you might be cringing at the sight of another brightly colored fantasy world, filled with recognizable stars and action and everything perfectly calibrated to appeal to as many people as possible. But Oz is directed by the likable Sam Raimi, and stars the very likable Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz (plus James Franco, who's also there somehow) filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-03-05Operation Kino 104: Defending The Smurfs And Offensive Humor This week Katey and Dave have doubleheader tidbit talk about NBC and HBO's Girls, Patches defends his love of The Smurfs, and the guys get into a conversation about what makes some humor offensive. All that plus a lightning round inspired by the DVD release of Wreck-It Ralph filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-03-01Operation Kino 103 Review: Park Chan-wook's Lush And Possibly Crazy Stoker Korean director Park Chan-wook has become an icon thanks to films like Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Thirst, but he's making a whole new leap with Stoker, his first film in the English language. Starring Mia Wasikowska as a young girl undergoing a very, very unusual coming of age, Stoker is lush and stylish and very, very weird-- exactly what many of us have come to expect from Park, filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-02-26Operation Kino 103: Can Trolling Be Used For Good? This week on Operation Kino, we've got a tidbit from Patches talking about the experimental documentary Leviathan and another tidbit from David about Oscilloscope Laboratories and their promotional stunt using Vine. Our first-ever listener voicemail asks us to talk about Star Wars and the ever-expanding world of franchises, and then we get into a big conversation about trolling, and how once in a while it can be used for good filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-02-22Operation Kino 102 Review: The Rock Gets Serious With Snitch We're bracing ourselves for a lot of movies starring The Rock coming our way in the next few months, and kicking things off is Snitch, a movie inspired by a true story and sharply critical of the very real government policy of mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offenders. Sound boring? Well, that's where The Rock comes in to spice things up filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-02-19Operation Kino 102: Do The Oscars Even Matter? This week on Operation Kino, we've got a tidbit from Da7e-- with special guest Sean O"Connell-- talking about the future of Spider-Man, and a tidbit from Katey about Spotify and getting back into the music. Then there's a Pop Culture Existential Crisis, in which we ponder the deeper meanings behind the Toy Story franchise filed under: opkino
 published: 2013-02-15Operation Kino 101 Review: Is It Ever A Good Day To Die Hard? Yippee-ki-yay, Mother Russia. For the review segment of this week's Operation Kino we're talking about A Good Day to Die Hard, with special guest Matt Singer of Indiewire's Criticwire blog. We talk about where the movie stands among all the previous Die Hard movies filed under: opkino
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