Child’s Play: Ultra-Gory Reboot of Horror Classic Is Stupidly Fun (Did We Mention Gory?)
Anna: Luc Besson Thriller Not Quite A Feminist Fiesta But It Gives Good Action (Sorry)
PODCAST! Ep. 28.: Two weeks of devil dolls, tear-jerking toys, dogs and what a Chinese trade war could mean to the movies
PodcastJim SlotekMovie podcasts, Original-Cin, Toy Story 4, Chucky Annabelle, Dogman, Buddy, Trump's trade war with China, Chinese box office, Jim Slotek, Karen Gordon, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, Thom Ernst
Toy Story 4: Latest Chapter in Winning Franchise a Bracing Look at Childhood Lost
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewKeegan-Michael Key, Keanu Reeves, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Christina Hendricks, Annie Potts, Jordan Peele, Toy Story 4, Sequel, Franchise, Disney Pixar
Dogman: Dark Italian Drama Raised by Great Performance, Uncanny Setting
Wild Rose: Heartwarming Tale Persuasively Tallies the Price of Chasing Dreams
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir: Multinational co-production has a bit of everything but not enough of anything
ReviewJim SlotekThe Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, Ken Scott, Seducing Doctor Lewis, The Grand Seduction, Starbuck, Bollywood stars, International co-productions, Romain Puértolas, Dhanush, Amruta Sant, Erin Moriarty, Bérénice Bejo, The Artist
Original-Cin Q&A: Tony Hale, Toy Story 4's 'Forky,' talks up the versatility of sporks and cracking up in Veep
By Bonnie Laufer
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Your Weekend Film Round-Up: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, Preview, PodcastWeekly Roundup, There Are No Fakes, Late Night, Watergate, Shaft, Men in Black: International, The Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch, Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, Jamie Kastner, Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Rowntree, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mouthpiece, Patricia Rozema, Canadian, documentary, remake, Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Chloe Sevigny, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Danny Glover
There Are No Fakes: Engrossing doc on Indigenous art fraud reveals bigger picture
By Karen Gordon
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Shaft: Lame Reboot Sucks the Cool Out of the Sassy Original (and Its Followups)
ReviewIsaac Hayes, Shaft, Tim Story, Ride Along, Remake, Samuel L. Jackson, Regina King, Richard Rowntree, Regina Hall, Blaxploitation
PODCAST! Ep. 27: Props for two Cancon films, why Gwyneth can't remember what she's in, and reboot, reboot, reboot
Jim SlotekMovie podcasts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Spider-Man, The Dead Don't Die, Shaft, Men in Black: International, There Are No Fakes, Jamie Kastner, Mouthpiece, Patricia Rozema, Late Night, Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon
Men in Black: International - Aliens still walk among us, but the thrill is gone
ReviewJim SlotekMen in Black: International, Franchise reboots, Hellboy, Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Cute aliens, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Les Twins, Kumail Nanjiani, F. Gary Gray
Watergate: Everything you wanted to know - in two separate films - but no mention of the "T" word
ReviewJim SlotekWatergate, Deep Throat, CREEP, Nixon, Charles Ferguson, Watergate documentary, Archibald Cox, John Dean, Daniel Ellsberg, Elizabeth Holtzman, Barbara Jordan, Douglas Hodge, Parallels between Trump and Nixon
Late Night: Implausible talk-show-themed screwball comedy doesn't add up
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekLate Night, Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, Amy Ryan, Denis O'Hare, Nisha Ganatra, John Lithgow, Late Night Talk Shows, Comedy writers rooms, White male perspective
The Dead Don't Die: Jim Jarmusch's hilarious zombie/eco satire slips in a dry lament between killer laughs
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch, Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Zombie movies, Zombie spoofs, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, RZA, Wu Tang Clan, Tilda Swinton, Selena Gomez, Caleb Landry Jones, Only Lovers Left Alive, Environmental messages
Your weekend preview: What to watch (and what to skip) in theatres this weekend
ReviewJim SlotekMouthpiece, Patricia Rozema, Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, The Souvenir, Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, The Tomorrow Man, Blythe Danner, John Lithgow, Dark Phoenix, Sophie Turner, Jennifer Lawrence, Pavarotti, Ron Howard, Echoes in The Canyon, Jakob Dylan, Framing John DeLorean, Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Dark Phoenix: A dozen X-Men movies later, how the mighty have fallen
ReviewJim SlotekDark Phoenix, X-Men, Superhero farewells, James McAvoy, Sophie Turner, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Simon Kinberg, The Martian, The Fantastic Four, Shazam!, Brian DePalma, The Fury, Carrie, Firestarter
The Tomorrow Man: Lithgow and Danner wring unlikely romance out of a conspiracy monger's sad lot
ReviewJim SlotekThe Tomorrow Man, Blythe Danner, John Lithgow, I'll See You In My Dreams, Conspiracy nuts, Noble Jones, Elderly romances, Derek Cecil, The Federalist Papers, Originalists
Mouthpiece: Patricia Rozema's stage adaptation successfully divides the psyche into two bickering halves
ReviewJim SlotekMouthpiece, Film adaptations of hit plays, Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, Patricia Rozema, Internal dramas, Funeral stories, Canadian movies, Jodie Foster, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
