Rendezvous with Madness: Long-running Mental-Health Themed Festival Timelier Than Ever
Interview, Preview, Review, ViewsRendezvous With Madness, Geoff Pevere, Conviction, Retrospekt, Bedlam, Mental health issues, documentaries, Dramas, Toronto film festivals, Festival
Gemini Man: Ang Lee Actioner Has Will Smith Times Two But Single-Digit Thrills
Lucy in the Sky: Natalie Portman Space Drama Grounded by Ridiculous Plot
Preview, ReviewLucy in the Sky, TIFF 2019, Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Ellen Burstyn, Noah Hawley, NASA, Space adventure, Zazie Beetz, Reese Witherspoon
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres This Week
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Review, PreviewJoker, The Laundromat., Robbery, Sometimes Always Never, Roger Waters Us + Them, Where’s My Ray Cohn?, First Love, Weekly Roundup, TIFF 2019
First Love: Provocateur Takashi Miike serves up betrayal, vengeance, and murder in his most crowd-pleasing film
Robbery: Half-cooked heist film can't keep its eyes - or its plot - on the prize
ReviewJim SlotekRobbery, Canadian movies, Feature debut, Corey Stanton, Jeremy Ferdman, Art Hindle, Rachel Wilson, Sera-Lys McArthur, Jennifer Dale, Father-son crime films, Caper films
The Laundromat: Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers Tale Mines Sadly Familiar Terrain
ReviewThe Laundromat., TIFF 2019, Steven Soderbergh, Scott Z Burns, Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, David Schwimmer, James Cromwell, Jeffrey Wright, Matthias Schoenaerts
Joker: Joaquin Phoenix Descends Believably into Madness in Gotham's Dark Heart
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ReviewJim SlotekJoker, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy, Zazie Beetz, TIFF 2019, Todd Phillips, Venice Film Festival, Gotham, Batman
Roger Waters Us + Them: Doc is Equal Parts Concert Film, Anti-Establishment Rally
Review, PreviewRoger Waters Us + Them, Documentary, Concert Film, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Sean Evans, Is This The Life We Really Want?, Jon Carin, Joey Waronker, Dark Side of the Moon
Sometimes Always Never: British Dramedy Aims to Please, Occasionally Succeeds
ReviewSometimes Always Never, Bill Nighy, Jenny Agutter, Carl Hunter, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Tim McInnerny, Louis Healy, British, Dra, Dramedy
Where’s My Roy Cohn?: Doc on Infamous Political Fixer Echoes in Time of Trump
ReviewWhere’s My Ray Cohn?, documentaries, Matt Tyrnauer, Donald Trump, Tom Snyder, Gore Vidal, Mike Wallace, Larry King, American politics, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres This Week
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Judy: Renee Zellweger's incandescent Garland reduces the rest of the cast to mere bystanders
ReviewJim SlotekJudy movie, Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger, Rupert Goold, Tom Edge, Peter Quilter, Louis B. Mayer, Richard Cordery, Mickey Rooney, Lorna Luft, Liza Minnelli, Rufus Sewell, Sid Luft, Mickey Deans, Finn Wittrock, Jessie Buckley, Michael Gambon, Awards season movies
Monos: Audiences feel the heat as child soldiers go 'Lord of the Flies' in a Latin American jungle
ReviewJim SlotekMonos, Lord of the Flies, Child soldiers, Alejandro Landes, Julianne Nicholson, Wilson Salazar, Julian Giraldo, Moises Arias, Karen Quintero, Sofia Buenaventura, FARC, Jasper Wolf, Latin American guerrillas
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of my Voice - A terrific, touching doc about a singer for all seasons
ReviewJim SlotekLinda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, Emmylou Harris, '70s folk rock, '70s country rock, The Eagles, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther, C, Classic rock documentaries, Dolly Parton, Karla Bonoff, Parkinsons, The Pirates of Penzance, Rex Smith, Kevin Kline, Nelson Riddle, Bobby Kimmel, Kenny Edwards, Stone Poneys, Jerry Brown, Canciones de mi Padre, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres This Week
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Zeroville: Stop me if you've heard this before, but Hollywood is a twisted place under the glamour
ReviewJim SlotekZeroville, James Franco, Once Up A Time in Hollywood, The Disaster Artist, Underbelly of Hollywood movies, A Place in the Sun, Will Ferrell, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Seth Rogen, Movies directed by and starring actors, Steve Erickson, Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust, What Makes Sammy Run?
Honey Bee: Teen Sex Worker Drama Both Timely and Kind of Timed-Out
Before You Know It: Indie Dramedy Aims for Kooky/Clever Sweet Spot, Skids Left
Ad Astra: Ponderous, preposterous, but damn, Brad Pitt is giving good performances lately
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekAd Astra, James Gray, Brad Pitt, Space adventure, Father and son issues, Liv Tyler, Neptune, Tommy Lee Jones, Ethan Gross, Terrenc Malick, Knight of Cups, Apocalypse Now, The Lost City of Z, Max Richter
