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Civil War: Alex Garland’s Dystopian Tale of a Besieged America Both Thrilling and Terrifying

Civil War: Alex Garland’s Dystopian Tale of a Besieged America Both Thrilling and Terrifying

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekApril 11, 2024Civil War, Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Jesse Plemons, Dystopian fiction, Action, Drama, Stephen McKinley HendersonComment

Killers of the Flower Moon: Scorsese at His Best Documents America at its Worst

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 17, 2023Killers of The Flower Moon, Adaptation, David Grann, Eric Roth, Marin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tantoo Cardinal, Lily Gladstone, American, Based on a true story, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow Comments

Original-Cin Year In Review: 2021’s Best and Worst Movies

By Original-Cin Staff

Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekDecember 29, 2021Pig, Nicolas Cage, The Card Counter, Oscar Isaac, Above Suspicion, Emelia Clarke, I'm Your Man, TIFF 2021, Hot Docs 2021., Nope, Jordan Peele, The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Flee, The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Jane Campion, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Avatar 2, Dune, Denis Villeneuve, Halloween Kills, Agnes, The Black Phone, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Maria Chapdelaine, The Northman, Robert Eggers, Encanto, The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright, Olivia Wilde, Judas and the Black Messiah, Drive My Car, Black Conflux, Killers of the Flower Moon, Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth, tick tick BOOM!, Coda, Paul Schrader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington Comment

Original-Cin Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch on Accessing His 'Inner A--hole' in The Power of the Dog

Original-Cin Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch on Accessing His 'Inner A--hole' in The Power of the Dog

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 16, 2021The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch playing a rancher, Jane Campion, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee Comments

The Power of the Dog: Jane Campion’s Western Masterpiece

The Power of the Dog: Jane Campion’s Western Masterpiece

By Linda Barnard

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 15, 2021The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, TIFF 2021, Western, drama, Kodi Smit-McPheeComment

Antlers: Gory, Creepy Horror Conjures Scares Both Literal and Figurative

Antlers: Gory, Creepy Horror Conjures Scares Both Literal and Figurative

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 28, 2021Horror, Guillermo del Toro, Antlers, Scott Cooper, Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Graeme Greene, Jeremy T. Thomas, Sawyer Jones, Scott HazeComment

Jungle Cruise: Dwayne Johnson Gives his All to Keep a Leaky Theme-Park Ride Afloat

Jungle Cruise: Dwayne Johnson Gives his All to Keep a Leaky Theme-Park Ride Afloat

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 31, 2021Movies based on theme park rides, Jungle Cruise, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Films set during WWI, Amazon river Comment

I'm Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman creates a wonderfully odd, meet-the-parents fever dream

I'm Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman creates a wonderfully odd, meet-the-parents fever dream

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 1, 2020Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Inner-dialogue, Canadian author Iain Reid, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anomalisa, Traumatic meet-the-parents movie, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David ThewlisComment

The Irishman: DeNiro, Pacino and Pesci's best work in years is best seen in the theatre

By Liam Lacey