PODCAST! Ep. 24: Liam's Cannes memories, John Wick's balletic killing spree and some words about Tim Conway
PodcastJim SlotekCannes Film Festival, Jeremy Piven, John Wick, Keanu Reeves, Tim Conway, Aniara, Aniara], Anjelica Huston, Asia Kate Dylan, Movie podcasts, Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, Karen Gordon, Thom Ernst, Bonnie Laufer
Meeting Gorbachev: Germany’s Werner Herzog Cozies Up with Former Soviet Leader
City Dreamers: Pioneering Female Architects Recall Smashing (Then Rebuilding) Glass Ceiling
Aniara: Swedes lost in space find plenty of emptiness to wrap their angst around
ReviewJim SlotekAniara, Swedish films, Art-house science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Claire Denis, Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja, Harry Martinson, The Starlost, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian
The Biggest Little Farm: Beautiful Doc Murmurs Its Strong Environmental Message
This Is North Preston: Music Video Sensibility Undermines Documentary’s Thrust
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: All that extra plot, and many more shots to the cerebellum
ReviewJim SlotekJohn Wick, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Lance Reddick, Halle Berry, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon
Original-Cin Q&A: Doc subject Dr. Ruth talks about everything, including sex
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekAsk Dr. Ruth, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Ryan White, Rafi Marmor, No Place on Earth, The Keepers, The Holocaust, Sex advice, Hugh Hefner, Hoarders, Sex education
Your Weekend Roundup: What to See (And Skip) In The Theatres
By Original-Cin Staff
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The Hustle: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Remake Falls Short (Surprise!) of the Mark
Shadow: Zhang Yimou regains his martial arts mojo after Matt Damon's not-so-Great Wall
ReviewJim SlotekZhang Yimou, Shadow, Red Sorghum, Gong Li, Matt Damon, The Great Wall, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Deng Chao, Guan Xiaotong, Sun Li, Lao Zai, Loudboy
Pokémon Detective Pikachu : Catnip for fans, incoherent to the unindoctrinated
ReviewJim SlotekPokémon Detective Pikachu, Pokemon, Pikachu, Mr. Mime, Psychduck, Charmander, Squirtle, Ryme City, Justice Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Rob Letterman
Tolkien: A superficial take sees the Lord of the Rings author as a nice chap who imagined dragons on the battlefield
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekJ.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Literary biopics, Dome Karukoski, First World War, Nicholas Hoult, Colm Meaney, Lily Collins, Derek Jacobi, Battle of the Somme, David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford, Goodbye Christopher Robin
The White Crow: Director Ralph Fiennes' Nureyev bio-pic puts a rare bird in a cage
ReviewJim SlotekRudolf Nureyev, The White Crow, Black Swan, Ralph Fiennes, Le Bourget Airport, Opera star defection, Oleg Ivenko, David Hare, Julie Kavanagh, Kirov Ballet, Parid Opera House, Clara Saint, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Andre Malraux, Maksimilian Grigoriyev, Chulpan Khamatova
POMS: Starry Comedy Set in Retirement Community a Fun if Fleeting Diversion
Ordinary Days: Three different movie ideas sewn together into an ordinary film
ReviewJim SlotekOrdinary Days, Jacqueline Byers, Missing people, Crime procedurals, Canadian movies, Richard Clarkin, Torri Higginson, Michael Xavier, Kimberly Laferriere, Joris Karsky, Kris Booth, Jordan Canning, Mena Massoud, Aladdin
PODCAST! Ep. 23: Avatar and Star Wars and Avatar and Star Wars (kill me now)
PodcastJim SlotekAvatar, Star Wars, Disney, James Cameron, Christmas blockbusters, Pokemon, Japanese pop culture, Pokemon Detective Pikachu, Sailor Moon, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Saban, Tolkien, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Movies about authors, World War i, Ordinary Days, Mena Massoud
Your weekend roundup: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres this weekend
ReviewJim SlotekDennis Quaid, The Intruder, Hail Satan?, Long Shot, Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, Dame Judi Dench, Penny Lane, UglyDolls, JT Leroy, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Red Joan, Sophie Cookson
Red Joan: (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love while smuggling bomb secrets)
ReviewJim SlotekRed Joan, Dame Judi Dench, Trevor Nunn, Royal Shakespeare Company, Atomic bomb secrets, Melita Norwood, Ben Miles, Sophie Cookson, Tereza Srbova, Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Kingsman: The Secret Service
Long Shot: Seth Rogen/Charlize Theron Entry Raises the Rom-Com Bar
PreviewAlexander Skarsgård, Andy Serkis, Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, Jonathan Levine, Long Shot, Romantic comedy, O'Shea Jackson Jr, Bob Odenkirk, Comedy
