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A podcast about film festivals
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Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
There's no greater honor a movie can aspire to than to be talked over by the gang at Cannes I Kick It. So Pedro Almodóvar? You're WELCOME! This is our commentary on THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, which is currently available on Netflix and other fine rental and purchase platforms. We chat about the movie and many other things! Golden Li-what? You won the Palme D'Ollie!
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Friday Nov 28, 2025
Friday Nov 28, 2025
It's a good year to hold fast to traditions that bring us joy and what is more joyful than the giving of shorts? Nothing! Shortgiving Five is here and we have another wide ranging conversation of various short films to share with each other. This year's shorts are: Lover, Lovers, Loving Love (dir. Jodie Mack)-Not available to the public, Balloonfest (dir. Nathan Truesdell)-available on Vimeo, In Order To Not Be Here (dir. Deborah Stratman)-available on YouTube, and Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (dir. Peter Capaldi)- available on YouTube. Shorts to you all!
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
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Friday Nov 14, 2025
Friday Nov 14, 2025
There are so many movies this fall! We talk a few Chicago Film Festival titles like DRY LEAF and more on IS THIS THING ON? and get into discussions of all sorts of other movies like MIROIRS NO. 3, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, DIE MY LOVE, BUGONIA, IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, BLUE MOON and much much more!
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
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Friday Oct 31, 2025
The fall regional festivals have been doing their thing and that includes the city of Chicago. Emilio has been on the ground and offers up his report on seeing FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, THE MASTERMIND, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, THE SECRET AGENT, IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, and, of course, IS THIS THING ON? Andy is mostly here to get all your questions about Balls answered.
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
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Friday Sep 19, 2025
Friday Sep 19, 2025
As a new People's Choice Winner has been crowned and all the stars have left Toronto, so too has Andy returned from his pilgrimage to the festival. He and Emilio got on the line to break down everything he saw, from new films from Park Chan-Wook, Richard Linklater, and Claire Denis, to the people's choice winner HAMNET. Documentaries, undistributed musicals, Cannes prize winners, we've got a little bit of everything!
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
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Friday Sep 05, 2025
Friday Sep 05, 2025
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 2024 is on the table, and we are giving a festival-style awards slate. Who will take home the coveted Palme D'Ollie? There's only ONE way to find out. NOTE: This episode confers NO LEGITIMACY on Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.
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
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Friday Aug 22, 2025
Friday Aug 22, 2025
With a full TIFF Schedule announced and most of the NYFF lineup in place, we take a look at the full picture. J Catherine and Andy talk about Andy's upcoming visit to TIFF, using the wonderful resource of tiffr to see what should be on Andy's shortlist and what his ideal schedule might look like. Up top, some thoughts on the latest Spike Lee Joint, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST.
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
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and J. Catherine Traverse who is not on social media
Friday Aug 08, 2025
Friday Aug 08, 2025
As we move ever closer to a full fall festival lineup, the gang comes together to discuss a bunch more TIFF titles and the NYFF Main Slate, before moving into a game designed to test their knowledge of TIFF movies from Actors Turned Directors. And some discussion of Alex Ross Perry's Pavements up top now that everyone on the pod has seen it!
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
Friday Jul 25, 2025
Friday Jul 25, 2025
Announcement after announcement after announcement is upon us. There were like 3 or 4 major festival announcements between when we recorded this episode and when it's coming out so we will get to those NEXT TIME. Please enjoy our brief look at LOCARNO, and a deeper look at VENICE and TIFF and some assorted speculation about other stuff happening this fall. Some EDDINGTON talk up top between J. Catherine and Andy that is not particularly spoilery. We're back!
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
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Wes Anderson is punctual! Always happy to have a festival premiere and then be in wide release within mere weeks, his latest THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is now in theaters and ALL FOUR HOSTS had an opportunity to see, so we naturally come together to discuss. We talk about Anderson's structural choices, his ideas on faith and religion, and his use of violence and many more things ON TOPIC and RELATED TO THE FILM before we kind of DIGRESS to offer a preview of a Venice preview and just kind of shoot the shit about movies since it hasn't been all four of us for a while. Fun stuff! Can we steal "Do it up!" now that Maron is retiring? Let's find out!
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