Operation Kino

Can Oz The Great And Powerful succeed where Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland failed? Find out our take, as Katey and Patches discuss the giant movie along with special guest Jordan Hoffman. We end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert.

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.

Katey, David and Patches all love Park Chan-wook's English-language debut Stoker, so to make the conversation interesting, they brought in Amy Nicholson, who didn't like it at all. Listen to the battle!

We talk about experimental docs like Leviathan, Oscilloscope Labs using Vine for PR, Star Wars and the future of franchises, and how trolling can be used for good.

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 a very real government policy.

This week we bring in special guest Nathaniel Rogers to help Katey argue why the Oscars matter, and special guest Sean O'Connell to discuss the future of Spider-Man. Plus chatter on Spotify and a pop culture existential crisis about Toy Story.

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 Identity Thief and the habit of critics tweeting after movies, play two games called Film Centipede and Eff, Roadtrip, Kill, and then dig into a longer Segment 3 chat about Netflix, House of Cards, and the future of TV on the Internet.

This week we celebrate our 100th episode with a Full Quell, featuring interviews with four family members: Katey's sister, Patches' dad, Da7e's mom and David's brother-in-law. Uncover family secrets, embarrassing stories, and a bit of insight on how to ra

We review Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects and look back on what we've learned after 99 episodes of this podcast. Plus tidbits about The End of Love, Warm Bodies, Baldur's Gate and the end of 30 Rock.

In this special Sundance-ified episode, we run down what we've seen at the festival with special guest Brian Moylan, and has a brief tidbit from Da7e about the series finale of Fringe.

We review the Jessica Chastain-starring horror film Mama, then dig into our most anticipated films of 2013. Plus tidbits about The Carrie Diaries, Adventure Time, Zack Snyder's potential Star Wars and Ben Affleck's thwarted Oscar ambitions.

We review Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad, then test our knowledge with the latest edition of the trivia game Patches Matches. Plus tidbits about Letterboxd, The Mirror Crack'd, Star Trek alternate universes, and A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan

This week on Operation Kino, we send out 2012 with a little bit of Carly Rae Jepsen and three separate top 10 lists, with Katey, David and Patches counting down their top 10 films of the year, and Da7e bravely moderating as always.

We review The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and hand out superlatives for 2012's movies, including best line of dialogue and best movie to watch on drug. Plus tidbits about the Qatsi trilogy, Osombie, the week's new trailers and Middle of Nowhere.