Mary Poppins Returns: Dazzling Sequel Conjures All the Charm of the Original Classic
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewMary Poppins Returns, Sequel, Emily Blunt, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin FIrth, Ben Whishaw, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dick Van Dyke, Musical, Rob Marshall
Vox Lux: Director’s Stylized Take on Broken Society Full of Empty Calories
ReviewVox Lux, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Raffey Cassidy, Willem Dafoe, TIFF 2018, Brady Corbet, Sia, Stacy Martin, pop culture, Her Smell
They Shall Not Grow Old: WWI Becomes Immersive in Peter Jackson’s Riveting, Tech-Boosted Doc
What To See (And What to Skip) In the Theatres This Weekend
ReviewJim SlotekSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Lego Movie, Mary Queen of Scots, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Blaze, Blaze Foley, Ethan Hawke, Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, The Mule, Clint Eastwood, The Straight Story, Nebraska, "Old man" road movies, Ben is Back, Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Peter Hedges, Mortal Engines, Peter Jackson, Christian Rivers, Super-Grid, Leo Fafard, Marshall Williams, post-apocalypse
Ben is Back: Hedges directs son Hedges in a decidedly off-kilter family Xmas story
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekBen is Back, Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Kathryn Newton, Courtney B. Vance, Peter Hedges, About A Boy, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Pieces of April, Manchester By The Sea, Boy Erased, Awards season movies, Dysfunctional family movies, Christmas movies
Mortal Engines: Adaptation of YA Novel Offers High-Concept Looks, Low-Rent Story
ReviewMortal Engines, YA novel, Dystopian stories, Peter Jackson, Leila George, Hera Hilmar, Hugh Weaving, Stephen Lang, Christian Rivers, Jihae
The Mule: Clint directs himself as a 90-year-old drug runner with craft and echoes of Gran Torino
ReviewJim SlotekClint Eastwood, The Mule, Gran Torino, Nick Schenk, Leo Sharp, 90-year-old-drug-runner, Alison Eastwood, Dianne Wiest, Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Pena, DEA, Andy Garcia, Yves Belanger
SuperGrid: Road Warrior-lite in a post-apocalyptic Saskatchewan
ReviewJim SlotekSuperGrid, Wolf Cop, Lowell Dean, Leo Fafard, Marshall Williams, Daniel Maslany, Saskatchewan films, post-apocalypse, Pandemic movies, Road Warrior
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Punks the Marvel 'Canon' with a Swarm of Arachnids
ReviewJim SlotekSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Multiverse theory, Super hero movies, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, The Lego Movie, Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Stan Lee, Spider-Ham, Spider Pig, Liev Schreiber, Kathryn Hahn, Marvel
Blaze: A soft, touching movie about a not-so-soft forgotten country outlaw
ReviewJim SlotekBlaze Foley, Ethan Hawke, Country outlaws, Mike Judge, Tales from the Tour Bus, Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard, Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton, Josh Hamilton, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Richard Linklater
Mary Queen of Scots: Period Drama Aces the Details but Offers Scant Sizzle
What to See (And What to Skip) In Theatres This Weekend
ReviewJim SlotekThe Favourite, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, The Go-Getters, Jeremy Lalonde, Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Anna and the Apocalypse, Ella Hunt, Almost Almost Famous, Celebrity impersonators, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Award-season favourite The Favourite: A brilliant blend of Restoration comedy and arch political satire
ReviewJim SlotekThe Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Deborah Davies, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weiss, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Queen Anne, Lady Sarah Churchill, Abigail Masham, The War of Spanish Succession, Robert Harley, Jonathan Swift, Robbie Ryan, Sandy Powell
Anna and the Apocalypse: Zombie High School Christmas Musical (Need We Say More?)
ReviewAnna and the Apocalypse, Zombies, Musical, High School, Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, John McPhail, Ryan McHenry, Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal
Searching for Ingmar Bergman: Insightful Doc Puts Gentle Lens on Influential Director
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, a standard doc about a lonely, insecure GOP "fixer"
Almost Almost Famous: Tribute Act Doc Probes What it Means to Be Someone Else
Reviewdocumentary, Canadian movies, Barry Lank, Music, Tribute Acts, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackie Wilson, Buddy Holly, Hot Docs
The Go-Getters: How low can you go for a laugh? Find out here
ReviewJim SlotekThe Go-Getters, F-bombs, Dark comedy, Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Jeremy Lalonde, Brendan Gall, James Cade, Street people, Prostitution, Canadian movies, Canadian comedies
Your Weekend Film Round-Up: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
By Original-Cin Staff
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Preview, ReviewRoma, Alfonso Cuaron, Nothing Like A Dame, Weekly Roundup, Tiger, Clara, Movie podcasts, Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon, Bonnie Laufer, Roger Michell, Barry Avrich
Dead in a Week or Your Money Back: Promptly dead on delivery
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDead in a Week: Or Your Money Back, Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Edmunds, Gangster comedies, Freya Mavor, Guy Ritchie, Suicide, Gunplay, Hitmen
