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
PODCAST! Ep. 3 - The critics were wrong about Bohemian Rhapsody (or so say some of us!)
PodcastJim SlotekMovie podcasts, Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, The Go-Getters, Canadian comedies, Woody Allen, Holiday Season movies, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, Bonnie Laufer, Karen Gordon, Jim Slotek, The Favourite, Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weiss
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
Tiger: A Tame Take on an Actual Canadian Sports Triumph
ReviewJim SlotekJanel Parrish, Canadian film, Mickey Rourke, drama, boxing, Alister Grierson, Michael Pugliese, Prem Singh, Marshall Manesh, Michael 'Mick' Harrity, Liam Lacey
PODCAST! Ep. 2 - Yes to Roma! Hooray for Dames! Death to cellphone users!
PodcastJim SlotekMovie podcasts, Original-Cin, Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon, Bonnie Laufer, Roma, Alfonso Cuarón, Nothing Like A Dame, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Netflix, Oscar race, Clara, Akash Sherman, Cellphones in theatres
Prosecuting Evil: The last Nuremberg prosecutor continues to fight inhumanity at 99
ReviewJim SlotekBen Ferencz, Nuremberg Trials, International Criminal Court, Einsatzgruppen, Barry Avrich, Prosecuting Evil, Alan Dershowitz, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump
Nothing Like A Dame: 'Mags,' 'Jude' et al dish deliciously about stage history
ReviewJim SlotekTea With The Dames, Nothing Like A Dame, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Joan Plowright, Dame Eileen Atkins, Laurence Olivier, Roger Michell, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, British theatre legends, Franco Zeffirelli
Roma: Gravity Director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gripping Drama Finds Focus in Family
