Lorne: A Painfully Reluctant Subject, And a Light-But-Not-Slight History of SNL
ReviewJim SlotekSaturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels documentary, Lorne, Director Morgan Neville, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Oral history of SNL, Robert Smigel animation, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, John Mulaney, Conan O'Brien, Chris Rock, 30 Rockefeller Centre, Studio 8H
Rustin: Spotlighting the Dandy Hero of The Civil Rights Movement
ReviewJim SlotekRustin, TIFF 23, Civil Rights Movement, American Civil Rights, George C. Wolfe, Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Netflix, Jeffrey Wright, Aml Ameen, Martin Luther King, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper, Da‘Vine Joy Randolph
Amsterdam: Director David O. Russell’s Anticipated Return as Sloppy as It Is Starry
ReviewJim SlotekAmsterdam, David O. Russell, Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Michael Shannon, Mike Myers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldana, Taylor Swift, Rami Malek, Beth Grant, Robert De Niro, Timmy Olyphant, Period piece, Drama, Madcap
Spiral: Latest Installment in the SAW Horror Franchise at Once Faithful and Novel
ReviewJim SlotekSpiral, Saw, Darren Lynn Bousman, Franchise, Horror, Torture, Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Cop drama, Jigsaw, Serial killers, Tobin Bell
The Witches: Edgeless, CGI-laden remake of Roald Dahl story brings nothing new to the cauldron
ReviewJim SlotekRoald Dahl’s The Witches, Robert Zemeckis, Anne Hathaway, Nicolas Roeg’s 1990 version, The Joker, Venom, Guillermo del Toro, Jahzir Bruno, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock, Everybody Hates Chris, Codie-Lei Eastick, Augustus Gloop, Kristin Chenoweth, Kenya Barris
