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Episodes of Screening in Kingston
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Episode 158: Cruisin' Around
After a busy week, Mike and Taylor sit down to review some new(ish) movies! Taylor talks about The Truffle Hunters, not to be confused with Pig, and Mike reviews the Disney film Jungle Cruise based on the Disney ride…because they do that now.
Episode 157: In The Heights
Mike reviews the musical/movie In The Heights from Hamilton’s creator Lin Manuel Miranda and Taylor turns back the clock to review Love Witch. Speaking of turning back the clock, Nick Cage and The Green Knight are brought up again!
Episode 156: Let’s Talk About Green Belts
Mike and Taylor give their reviews for The Green Knight (starring Dev Patel) and The Suicide Squad (2021) from James Gunn, while trying to understand where exactly these movies are coming from. Our team also gets some Star Trek fan questions and we discuss how close a few fans got to bingo again this past week.
Episode 155: Black Widow and MCU Update
Screening in Kingston gives us an MCU update with reviews of the Disney Plus show Loki and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. We are also surprised by Taylor reviewing Black Widow, the long awaited next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Episode 154: Pig
Nicolas Cage is back, Taylor and Mike review his new film Pig, also Starring Alex Wolff. They review the film and talk a bit about marketing movies and what you can expect from this film. Disney and Scarlett Johansson are fighting, will they stay together for the kids? Only time will tell. #screeninginygk
Episode 153: Back To The Movies…again
Finally. We’re back. Screening in Kingston goes back to the movies this week and finally sees some new films, in an actual movie theatre. Taylor reviews Zola and Mike reviews A Quiet Place Part 2. Mike talks about the comparison of A Quiet Place to A Quiet Place Part II and Taylor also has some thoughts on the next Fear Street films from Netflix.
Episode 152: Star Trek: The Original Series Part 2
...And now the exciting conclusion to our Star Trek talk! Tyler and Mike continue to go through episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, introducing the themes of their picks as they go.
Episode 151: Star Trek: The Original Series Part 1
It’s time for another Star Trek episode! Mike welcomes back Tyler to the show to discuss Star Trek: The Original Series and some of their favorite episodes from all 3 seasons.
Episode 150: One Month To Go!
It’s time for a streaming catch up! Our team discusses some films they’ve watched on streaming platforms this week, many new releases, and are excited by the announcement of movie theatres reopening in Ontario in a few weeks. Taylor reviews Fear Street Part One: 1994, and Mike gives short reviews for Fatherhood, Above Suspicion and Army of the Dead.
Episode 149: Bo Burnham
Taylor and Mike review Bo Burnham: Inside, a comedy/musical special now available on Netflix from comedian, actor, writer, songwriter and Screening in Kingston Award Winner Bo Burnham.
Episode 148: The Conjuring Universe Part 2
Taylor and Mike pick up their chat about The Conjuring Universe and finally review The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. They rank the films with the other Conjuring films and get into some fan questions about how films handle certain types of content.
Episode 147: The Intangible Queer
Joining Mike and Taylor this week are directors/filmmakers Kemi King & Lisbet MacLean from The Intangible Queer, a film in Reelout’s Summer Showcase of Queer films! Matt Salton, director of Reelout Arts Inc. also stops in to chat about the showcase, how it came together, and how you can stream the films this summer from anywhere in the world.
Episode 146: The Conjuring Universe Part 1
Mike opens the show explaining his Monday rut and all the tech issues the day started with. Taylor and Mike discuss The Conjuring Cinematic Universe and dive into their expectations for the series of films, where things could go from here and an update on The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
Episode 145: Movies From A Hat 10: Guernsey to Brooklyn
Mike and Taylor wrap up another #movieclub with our 10th movies from a hat! They review The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2018), compare the two and discuss the careers of Robin Williams and Lily James.
Episode 144: Movies From A Hat 9: The Help/Burnt
The early and mid 2010s come up this week as our team reviews Burnt (2015) and The Help (2011), both films came out of the hat last week! Mike and Taylor discuss and compare the two films and talk about the content of each and how it holds up today.
Episode 143: Movies From A Hat 8: Apollo 13/The Haunting
The movies from a hat movie club continues with our look at Apollo 13 (1995) and The Haunting (1999). Taylor and Mike review both films, we find out how Taylor feels about them, and we compare the two best we can.
Episode 142: Movies From A Hat 7: Life of Brian/Die Hard
As we continue our movies from a hat movie club, Taylor and Mike give their thoughts on Monty Python’s Life of Brian, from 1979 ,and Die Hard, from 1988!
Episode 141: Movies From A Hat Returns: Love & Other Drugs/Timeline
In our first time back to our Movies From A Hat movie club, Mike and Taylor are joined by Tyler Vance to talk about Love & Other Drugs (2010) and Timeline (2003). They also reveal the winners from our fan voted first ever Screening in Kingston Awards.
Episode 140: 2021 Oscars Recap
The 2021 Oscars are in the books and we have a lot to say. Taylor and Mike are joined by Matt Salton to go over all the Oscars winners, the show itself and to announce the winner of the Screening in Kingston’s annual Oscars Pool!
Episode 139: The Screening in Kingston Awards Show
One week away from the 2021 Oscars, the Screening in Kingston team are put to the test by a fan of the show. Guest Producer Austin Spinner Summer comes up with games, trivia and awards categories for Mike and Taylor to tackle with guest host Tyler Vance. They'll select their picks for Best Picture, Best Performance and some fun games centred around movies.
Episode 138: Minari...for real this time
Our attention stays focused on the Oscars as Mike and Taylor review Minari and the Oscar Nominated documentary Crip Camp. The Screening in Kingston team also makes some announcements for upcoming episodes and discusses how foreign language films are starting to get more awards attention in more categories than one. #screeninginygk #OscarNoms
Episode 137: Promising Young Woman
This week Taylor and Mike dive into another Oscar Nominated film Promising Young Woman, directed by Emerald Fennell and starring Carey Mulligan. Fan questions include some discussion around the acting in One Night In Miami and the difference from watching movies from home to review and being out at the theatre.
Episode 136: One Night with Glenn Close, Judas and the Black Messiah
Taylor and Mike continue their countdown to the Oscars with reviews of Judas and the Black Messiah, One Night In Miami… and Hillbilly Elegy. They review the films and give their thoughts on if the Oscar Nominations they all got, fit each movie. They also answer fan questions about what makes a screen play an adapted one and give an unfortunate Armie Hammer update.
Episode 135: 2021 Oscar Nominations Reactions
In what was the strangest film year in our recent history, we take a look at all the Oscar Nominated films from this past year and give you our thoughts, what we’re now looking to catch up on and news about our annual Oscars Pool! To add to the excitement, we answer fan questions throughout the episode. The Academy Awards are coming up April 25.
Episode 134: WandaVision Season 1 Review
Mike welcomes back Andrew to the show to talk all things Marvel as the MCU's first TV Series comes to an end! We review the entire first (and maybe only?) season of WandaVision on Disney Plus. Spoiler Warning on this episode as we go from episode 1 to episode 9, talking about every single fun moment from the entire series and getting ourselves pumped for the next MCU show.
Episode 133: How To Fix Radios
Yes, the Golden Globes did indeed happen this year! In the first half of the episode, Mike and Taylor discuss the big movie winners and what films they want to see leading up to the Oscars. We walk through every winner of a Golden Globe and Mike gives his thoughts on the general presentation. In the second half of the show we're joined by the team behind How To Fix Radios, a film in the Kingston Canadian Film Festival; directors Casper Leonard & Emily Russell and actors James Rudden & Dimitri Watson tell us about their experiences making the film!
Episode 132: Short Films Talk with directors Lara Besa and Ryan Petre!
Taylor and Mike are joined by filmmakers Lara Besa and Ryan Petre, two young directors who have films in the KCFF Local Shorts program! This year the Kingston Canadian Film Festival goes digital, Lara and Ryan give us their experiences finishing a film during the COVID era and their journeys to getting their films in the festival.
Episode 131: Movies From A Hat 5:The Caine Mutiny/Holmes And Watson
In this week's episode of pulling movies from a hat, Mike and Taylor discuss the 2018 comedy Holmes & Watson as well as the 1954 war epic The Caine Mutiny, proving once and for all that every movie has connections such as people acting, a camera pointing at them, and dialogue.
Episode 130: Movies From A Hat 4: Enemy/Sliding Doors
This week's pull from the hat brought us Sliding Doors and Enemy, two films that have one glaring thing in common, but anything else? We'll find out as Mike and Taylor review both films, compare them and see what our fans say in the most bizarre of our movie clubs so far.
Episode 129: Movies From A Hat 3:Empire of The Sun/Kingsman
In our 3rd week of the Movies From a Hat movie club we turn to Empire of the Sun (1987) and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). As we compare these two films and hear from our fans, we look back on a long career of Christian Bale who brings a gavroche style of acting to Empire Of The Sun.
Episode 128: Reelout + Movies From A Hat 2
This week Mike and Taylor welcome Matt Salton back to the show, this time to talk about the 22nd annual Reelout Film Festival coming up January 29- February 6. In the second half of the show we continue our movies from a hat this week talking about Into The Woods (2014 film) and To The Stars (2020, available on amazon prime).
Episode 127: Star Trek TNG Guilty Pleasures
As a special birthday present to himself, Mike brings back Tyler to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation! This time, the boys chat about their TNG guilty pleasure episodes. This is Star Trek at its most Star Treky, they go through 5 TNG episodes each that they know are not the best…but are a lot of fun anyway. Live long and prosper!
Episode 126: Movies From a Hat 1: Your Name/Lone Star
In our first ever “movies from a hat” episode, Mike and Taylor discuss the 1996 film Lone Star and the 2016 anime Your Name. We hear from our fans and discuss what exactly these films have in common, if anything!
Episode 125: 1984, what a year!
This week Mike reviews Wonder Woman 1984 and the post-apocalypticThe Midnight Sky, and Taylor reviews Palm Springs from Andy Samberg, an Amazon Prime original. This episode ends with the first ever "Movies From A Hat" movie club! We put our fan's suggestions in a hat and draw two films this week for us to watch and try to connect in next week's episode.
Episode 124: The Best of The Worst, The Worst of The Best
We put a final stamp on 2020 by looking back at every film our team reviewed this past year. We'll go through every film that got a See It, Stream It, Airplane It and Skip It, giving a final ranking and deciding what were the best of the best and the worst of the worst.
Episode 123: A Netflix Christmas
Because we are indeed in a lockdown, Taylor and Mike gives you some more Holiday movie options straight from Netflix! Taylor reviews The Christmas Chronicles, while also giving you a list of great Netflix Christmas movies. Mike also reviews A California Christmas, for some reason.
Episode 122: Happiest of Seasons
Screening in Kingston gets you set for the holidays with our first of two Christmas/Holiday movie themed episodes! This week we’re joined by Nicole and Missy who give us their thoughts on the best Christmas Movies. Our team reviews Happiest Season, the latest film from Clea DuVall starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis and Alison Brie.
Episode 121: Our Quarantine Catchup on New Releases
Mike and Taylor get caught up on some new releases that went right to streaming and may even have some awards season ambitions...Taylor reviews Mank (Netflix), Mike reviews Uncle Frank (Amazon Prime), Greyhound (Apple TV sorta) and maybe we bring up that new musical sensation The Prom. With stars like Tom Hanks and Gary Oldman headlining streaming options, it should make for a very interesting Oscars season indeed.
Episode 120: Back To The Basics
We open up our emails and get back to fan questions in our all mailbag episode! This week we hear from our fans, get some movie news and see where the film world sits after our month long dive into experimental film. Wonder Woman 1984 approaches, Warner Bros. pulls movies from releasing in theatres and Mads Mikkelsen replaces every actor in all upcoming movie roles.
Episode 119: Movie Club 3- Mouthpiece
In the final week of our movie club, we look at the Canadian Film Mouthpiece with a fun Kingston connection! Our panel discusses the film and the overall movie club as we dive into the general topics of film, art and how we approach watching movies.
Episode 118: Movie Club 3- What Did Jack Do?
With the third film comes the unapologetically absurd What Did Jack Do? from writer/director David Lynch best known for his work Twin Peaks. Our panel discusses the so-called "film" as our movie club turns to the strange and yet still entertaining as our panel is split down the middle!
Episode 117: Movie Club 3- The Neon Demon
It's week 2 of our movie club on experimental films! This week Taylor tells us why she selected The Neon Demon, starring Elle Fanning, and our panel reviews the movie, discusses the directors intentions and we hear from several fans who are not quite on the same page as our panel.
Episode 116: Movie Club 3- Under The Skin
It's our 3rd movie club and this month we kick things off with Under The Skin! Thisis the first film in our discussion on arthouse films, experimental movies and other movies that sometimes we just simply try to avoid! We'll review the movie, hear from our fans and discuss Under The Skin, Scarlett Johansson and the directing choices of Jonathan Glazer.
Episode 115: Rebellion
Mike and Taylor welcome filmmakers Mark Starowicz and Caitlin Starowicz to the show to discuss their upcoming documentary Rebellion, debuting on the 60th Season Premiere of The Nature of Things on CBC and CBC GEM. They talk about their experiences making the film and the topics at the centre of both their film and the world. They give insights into filmmaking during COVID 19 and Mike and Taylor give their thoughts on the film!
Episode 114: Halloween 3:At World’s End, Revolutions, The Third One
In our 2020 Halloween episode Taylor reviews the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor and we discuss The Conjuring, its universe of films and where it could be going next! We give lots of spooky movie suggestions for Halloween and discuss how we might cast The Conjuring if the universe was to reboot.
Episode 113: Trials and Tribble-ations
Taylor returns from her Honeymoon to put a stop to all the Star Trek talk! She gives us her honeymoon movie list while Mike reviews the new Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7, looking back at the careers of Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Episode 112: Our Favorite Star Trek The Next Generation Episodes *EXTRA PODCAST!*
With the 3rd season of Star Trek Discovery set to debut, we welcome back Tyler Vance to talk Star Trek with Mike! In this special episode we look at Mike and Tyler’s favourite 5 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and talk about how each episode holds up today. We decided to go positive with our Star Trek talk and remember all the great episodes that came before from Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, and we take a moment to remember the late Leonard Nimoy and recount how we found out about his death.
Episode 111: Star Trek and Social Topics
The real Star Trek included 5 TV shows and a lot of films, many of which tackled social and political topics/issues in many episodes since the 1960s. This week, Tyler Vance, our Star Trek correspondent, joins Mike to discuss their favourite episodes that address many issues that are still very relevant today. We talk about race, class, gender, education, political tension, prejudice, and more. Was it always perfect? No, but we give you 10 episodes in total that were well ahead of their time!
Episode 110: Weddings, Keys, Streaming, Push Backs, Oh My!
We finally find out if Taylor did indeed get married! Mike reviews a random film (The Skeleton Key) and we talk about a lot of new movie news about more push backs as films get set for a long winter.
Episode 109: Netflix's New Releases
Netflix continues to bring us a wide variety of movies as more new releases turn to streaming services. This week we review the films Enola Holmes with Millie Bobby Brown and The Devil All The Time starring Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Pennywise the clown himself Bill Skarsgård. We get the final wedding update from Taylor and some fans ask award season themed questions.
Episode 108: Film Festivals Go Digital
Mike and Taylor welcome back their Toronto International Film Festival correspondent Nicole Stawikowski to talk about TIFF 2020 and how a film festival was able to run during a global pandemic. Nicole reviews films from the festival and gives suggestions for what to look for this fall as the film festival movies start their Oscars run. Fan questions include news about James Bond, The Conjuring 3, She Dies Tomorrow and Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Episode 107: Ending Some Things, Changing Others
This week we review the new Netflix film I’m Thinking of Ending Things starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons and the always entertaining Toni Collette. (light spoilers) We also review How To Be A Good Wife, a french film with English subtitles and give a little preview of what you can expect next week when we welcome a special guest back to the show. The show kicks off was a discussion around the new Oscars standards for Best Picture.
Episode 106: New Release Catchup
Mike and Taylor catch up on some new releases from the past 2 weeks of movie theatres being open. Mike reviews The New Mutants and the live action Mulan on Disney Plus. Taylor reviews Bill And Ted Face The Music, the third film in the Bill and Ted series from the 80s. Mike and Taylor also take turns ranting about Star Trek Discovery and Horror Film critics.
Episode 105: Tenet Dies Today, She Dies Tomorrow
Mike and Taylor are both back to the movie theatres! Mike reviews Tenet, our first new movie review in theatres since March. Christopher Nolan's latest film has been a long time coming, how does it hold up with his other films? Taylor reviews She Dies Tomorrow, playing at the Screening Room, and Mike and Taylor pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman who passed away suddenly on Friday.
Episode 104: The Week Before New Releases
This week Mike and Taylor answer some fan questions and comments about Masks in Movie Theatres and the evolution of Comedy. Mike reviews Inception from Christopher Nolan as we get set for the wide release of his next film Tent. Taylor reviews Crash from 1996, the director David Cronenberg is a Canadian best known for his thrillers and horror films.
Episode 103: What It's Like Seeing Movies Now
This week Mike recounts his visits to all 3 movie theatres in Kingston! He reviews The Burnt Orange Heresy, Peninsula and Jurassic Park. Topics this week include Donald Sutherland, Korean Films, Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula, Steven Spielberg, Sang-ho Yeon, and Mike's experiences going to the movies with new guidelines at each theatre. We also get to some fan questions including a debate over if The Princess Bride is a boring movie?
Episode 102: Summer Movies
It's time for another themed episode as Mike and Taylor talk about their favourite movies set in Summer or themed to the summer. Jaws, Call Me By Your Name, We Hot American Summer and so much more as they break down their Top 10 lists and discuss what the rest of the summer may be like for movie goers.
Episode 101: Back To The Movies
Mike and Taylor breakdown the return to movie theatres with a spotlight on films playing in Kingston and at The Screening Room! They review The Invisible Man, Emma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Clue, Sonic The Hedgehog, Jumanji The Next Level and more as we take a look at how theatre’s are handling no new releases.
Episode 100: Our 100th Episode
It is episode 100 of Screening in Kingston! We hear from our fans about some of their favorite moments from the first 99 episodes and Mike and Taylor walk through the IMDB Top 100 Movie List. How does it hold up? Which movies have the loudest fans? We talk about this and more in our special 100th Episode.
Episode 99: Da 5 Bloods
In episode 99, Mike and Taylor review Da 5 Bloods, a film from Spike Lee currently streaming on Netflix. We start off with some fan questions and present a fan's creation: The Screening in Kingston Bingo Card as we continue our countdown to 100 episodes.
Episode 98: Musicals for Everyone
This week our team reviews some new movies on streaming platforms! Hamilton, from Lin-Manuel Miranda, started streaming on Disney Plus this past weekend, Mike reviews it and talks about how musicals should be filmed. Also, for some more music, Mike and Taylor checked out Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga with Will Ferrell and Canada’s own Rachel McAdams.
Episode 97: Movie Club Week 3: The F Word
In the final film of our all Canadian Movie Club, we take a look at the F Word, or in many parts of the world the film is called What If. This movie stars Daniel Radcliffe, Adam Driver and Zoe Kazan, directed by Michael Dowse.
Episode 96: Movie Club Week 2: The Ravenous
In Week 2 of our movie club we review The Ravenous, a french film set in Quebec during a zombie apocalypse....quite the film to say the least.
Episode 95: Movie Club Week 1: Black Cop
We kick off our second movie club with Black Cop, a film on CBC Gem written and directed by Cory Bowles. Mike and Taylor give their review and we hear from fans who watched along with us. Join Our Movie Club
Episode 94: Big Announcements
This week Mike and Taylor have some big announcements that will continue throughout June! One of those is the launch of our second movie club, stream at home along with us as we do a three week tribute to Canadian films. Check out this week's episode for more announcements with more to follow in June.
Episode 93: The Lovebirds Land on Netflix
In our first new movie review since the start of COVID 19 closures in Ontario, Taylor talks about a romanic comedy with an action twist. The Lovebirds, starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae was originally scheduled for a theatre release BUT was moved to #streaming rather than being pushed back or rescheduled.
Episode 92: Tiger King
Finally Mike and Taylor dive into the Netflix documentary that took our world by storm! Tiger King is the crazy story of Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Jeff Lowe, their lives with Tigers and so much more. Spoiler Warning for the entire series of Tiger King as our team goes into detail on their thoughts on doc. Mike also revisits his conversation about #blackAF, also available on Netflix, and our team answers fan questions about the future of the Oscars.
Episode 91: Quarantine Fan Questions #2
Mike and Taylor answer fan questions for the entire episode as we open up our email and comments to all our amazing fans! Hear great streaming suggestions, film industry insights, post COVID-19 talk and a short review of the Netflix series #BlackAF from writer/producer Kenya Barris..
Episode 90: Movie Theatre Update with Wendy from The Screening Room!
Mike and Taylor are joined by Wendy Huot, owner and manager of The Screening Room, Kingston’s independent movie theatre to give an update on the Screening Room being closed during COVID19 and what the world of theatre going could look like in the future. She gives some Netflix suggestions and recounts stories about the Cats
Episode 89: New Platforms for group movie watching
Mike and Taylor are joined by Val Martin and Aprajita Sarcar, who watched the film “The Platform” on Netflix while practicing social distancing. They discuss how they watched the film and what it was like to share in the movie watching experience from home.
Episode 88: Captain America: The First Avenger- The Final Film in our April Movie Club
This week Mike and Taylor review the final film in our first ever Movie Club; Captain America: The First Avenger! Fans write in as we wrap up April and talk about what’s to come in the next few months in the world of film.
Episode 87: The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch- The Third Film in our April Movie Club
This week Mike and Taylor review the next film in our April Movie Club, The Awakening Of Motti Wolkenbruch and one of our fans gives Taylor homework for next week!
Episode 86: The Last Man on The Moon- The Second Film In our April Movie Club
This week we turn to our second film in our April Movie Club as this time it’s a movie Mike picked that he thinks Taylor will hate! Our team reviews “The Last Man on The Moon” and gets into some more fan questions including a fan casting request for the XMEN!
Episode 85: The Coal Miner’s Daughter- The First Film in Our April Movie Club
We introduce our first Movie Club film for April and review The Coal Miner’s Daughter, now available on #Netflix! Be sure to stream along with us each week as we go back and forth on films that Taylor or Mike will HATE!
Episode 86: Star Trek Picard Season 1 Review
Mike is joined by Tyler Vance for another episode of Star Trek talk, this time reviewing all of Season 1 of Star Trek Picard, which finished its first season last week. They have feelings.
Episode 85: Mailbag- Fan Questions, Streaming Suggestions and More!
We open up the mail bag and hear from our fans! They ask questions, give their streaming suggestions, pick on Taylor, probably, and so much more!
Episode 84: Streaming in Kingston 2
In our second official week of Social Distancing, Mike and Taylor review some shows and movies they streamed this past week, A Night’s Tale, Star Trek, I Am A Killer and more!
Episode 83: Movie World and Real World in a holding pattern
This week on Screening in Kingston Mike and Taylor talk COVID-19 and what it means in the world of films/movies and continue to offer streaming suggestions while everyone is practicing social distancing. Mike also quizzes Taylor on her love of Wes Anderson as the request of a fan!
