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Operation Kino 115: Talking About Spoilers, Because We Cannes

This week we are gallivanting along the French Riviera— or standing outside in torrential downpours, depending on how you look at it— as Patches checks in with an update from the Cannes Film Festival. Katey and Da7e talk spoiler culture, David waxes poetic over Before Midnight, Da7e explains a bit about the future of zombie Community, and we have a lightning round inspired by Fast & Furious 6.

Michael Haneke’s Amour in comic strip form.

Sometimes Mondo gets it oh so right.

Operation Kino 113 Review: Join Us For The Great Gatsby, Old Sport

This week we’d like you to join us for a ride on our hydroplane, old sport, as we sweep up the confetti and champagne glasses left over from our screening of The Great Gatsby. Did Baz Luhrmann’s experiment with 3D actually work with his maximalist aesthetic? Are the crazy party sequences great, or great to the point that they’ll make you sick? And who is this Gatsby fellow anyway? (It’s Leonardo DiCaprio.) All that, plus your answers to our lightning round questions about other books you read in high school that ought to become movies.

Operation Kino 113: Predicting The Themes Of This Year’s Summer Movie Season

This week we bring in Movies.com mastermind Erik Davis to look at the year’s crop of summer movies, and which trends we see emerging by the time the weather cools down again. Katey talks over her first time watching Road House, David sings the indie praises of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, and we test our memories of the year’s films so far with a quick round of Patches Matches. All that plus a lightning round inspired by The Great Gatsby.

Did not realize Saul Bass designed a rejected poster for Schindler’s List.