The People have chosen and The Market has ended, so that means Andy has returned from Toronto and has so many thoughts about so many movies. Listen for thoughts on TIFF Award Winners LA BOLA NEGRA, EL...

Surprise! Fall Festival season is here and we couldn't pass that up! Andy is going to TIFF again because he is old and cannot break the habit. He and Emilio got together to talk about the landscape of...

Back on schedule, there's a Cannes Lineup to analyze, and all four of us are here to offer the kind of insight only we can provide. What wikipedia rabbit holes will be fall down? How many French direc...

We decided, decisively and with a great amount of thought, to sit out Sundance and Berlin and South by Southwest this year. But Cannes's a callin', and we cannot resist the idea of at least one more f...

Rewatchability has been a key topic of conversation in the movie world lately. And we know we have to put our special Cannes I Kick It? spin on the conversation. So we turned to friend of the pod Jack...

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In September 1986, the city of Cleveland attempted to set a special record: the simultaneous launch of 1.5 million balloons. But fate intervened, and the result…

Fall Festival Season is in FULL SWING. Andy is ACTIVELY AT TIFF. So you KNOW what that means. IT IS TIME FOR THE 2024 CIKI AWARDS JURY. That's right, the shared list of movies we all have seen from 20...

The 2025 Cannes Lineup is here! Who's in? Who's out? Who will win the Palme? Emilio and Andy look into all the competition films, take a peak at the other lineups including the coveted Cannes Premiere...

It is the time of year where we all go a little mad, what with it being the month of March. We are celebrating by going far up our own butts and determining the greatest of the CIKI in-jokes and obsessions. Play along won't you? And let us know where we go wrong! View the bracket HERE Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

It's OSCARS WEEKEND and to celebrate, Andy has put together a little Festival Oscars Guessing Game for Emilio and Cullen to duke it out over. Please don't pay TOO close attention to the scores, but we...

J. Kim Murphy from Variety joins us, to pitch Richard Linklater movies based on names and ideas pulled from hats. Plus our first taste of Cannes 2025 news! Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram ...

We're back! And once again looking forward in a new way! We've prepped a little quiz for each other for us to share and discuss movies we expect in the next 12 months or so, so join in and guess along...

A WARNING TO ANY LISTENERS WHO DON'T LIKE THE SOUND OF EATING ON MIC: THIS MAY NOT BE THE EPISODE FOR YOU. As the year ends and we look back and ahead, a persistent question comes to mind: what's up w...

As the end of the year approaches, we take another crack at this film festival programming thing. Where will we go? Who will we book? How many live events will we hold? How early does Cullen expect us...

F for Fibonacci i takes as its departure point American author William Gaddis’ epic modernist novel JR (1975). An eerily prescient, biting social satire, JR…

Directed by Chris Marker, Frank Simeone, and John Chapman • 1981 • United States The filming of the VERTIGO sequences in SANS SOLEIL brought director Chris Marker to the Bay Area on a number of occas...

By the end of World War II, 3 prisoners wish to escape. To make this happen, they need to get food first...Director Jan Němec's graduation film, A Loaf of...

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This episode is a cold open that is about 8 minutes of VENOM: THE LAST DANCE spoilers, then about 45 minutes of earnest discussion of Robert Zemeckis's HERE, and then 4 minutes of special presentation...

The Chicago International Film Festival is picking up and this week we hear from Cullen about Hard Truths and Nickel Boys. We also dig into two big questions: if we were having a birthday dinner with Andy would he want us to tell the restaurant it was his birthday, and should we be a podcast about butter? Weigh in on our socials with #ButterYes or #YouButterNot. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse