The Death and Life of John F. Donovan: Wunderkind Xavier Dolan gets lost in translation
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Xavier Dolan, Thandie Newton, Ben Schnetzer, Game of Thrones, Kit Harington, Quebecois wuinderkind, Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay, Jacob Tierney
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In Theatres This Week
By Original-Cin Staff
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Views, Review, PreviewAngel Has Fallen, Aquarela, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Touch Me Not, Morgan Freeman, Gerard Butler, Issa López, Weekly Roundup
Touch Me Not: Hybrid doc-fiction tackles sexual connection in a sex-obsessed, intimacy-starved world
ReviewJim SlotekAdina Pintilie, Touch Me Not, Sex therapy documentary, Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear, Sex workers, Laura Benson, Hanna Hofmann, Seani Love, Tómas Lemarquis, Christian Bayerlein, Sexuality among the differently abled
Aquarela: Water, water everywhere, in all its power, in a doc to make you think
ReviewJim SlotekAquarela, Viktor Kossakovsky, 96-frames-per-second, documentaries about water, Ben Bernhard, Molly Malene Stensgaard, Ainara Vera, Lake Baikal, Finnish composer, Eicca Toppinen, Apocalyptica, Wallace Nichols
Tigers Are Not Afraid: The kids aren't all right in this taut, supernatural/drug-war mash-up
Angel Has Fallen: Dumb Third Installment in Save-The-World Series Blows Stuff Up, Collapses
ReviewAngel Has Fallen, Action movies, Franchise, Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Danny Huston, Nick Nolte, Ric Roman Waugh, U.S. politics, Drama, Guns
Original-Cin Interview: Sony Animation's Pam Marsden on the Oscar, Angry Birds 2 and watching a medium grow up
InterviewJim SlotekSony Pictures Animation, Pixar, Best Animated Feature Oscar, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Angry Birds Movie 2, Pam Marsden, Collision Conference, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania, Dinosaur, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Genndy Tartakovsky, Deadpool, PG-13
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in theatres this week
ReviewJim SlotekCate Blanchett, Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, After the Wedding, Susanne Bier, Good Boys, Blinded by the Light, Sarfraz Manzoor, Gurinder Chadha, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Mine 9, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Mads Brügger
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: Richard Linklater's screwball comedy eventually shows its heart
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekWhere'd You Go Bernadette?, Cate Blanchett, Maria Semple, Richard Linklater, Emma Nelson, Troian Bellisario, Zoe Chao, Runaway moms, Q&A interviews, Domestic inner turmoil, Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, Judy Greer, Kristen Wiig
Good Boys: Tweens-Go-Wild Comedy a Bawdy (Sometimes Icky) Look at Growing Up
ReviewGood Boys, Tweens, Tween comedy, Gene Stupnitsky, Jacob Tremblay, Keith L Williams, Brady Noon, Superbad, Coming-of-age stories, Profane, Comedy
Blinded by the Light: 80s-Era Coming of Age Tale Buoyed by Bollywood-ized Boss
47 Meters Down: Uncaged - Sharks vs Mean Girls Is No Fun At All
Review47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Horror, slasher flick, Sequel, Sistine Rose Stallone, Brianne Tju, Brec Bassinger, Sophie Nelisse, John Corbett, Nia Long, Corinne Foxx, Johannes Roberts
Cold Case Hammarskjöld: Oddball Documentary Equal Parts John LeCarre, Morgan Spurlock
After the Wedding: American remake of Danish Oscar-nom lacks emotional payoff
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekAfter the Wedding, American remakes of foreign films, Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Abby Quinn, Billy Crudup, Rolf Lassgård, Mads Mikkelsen, Bart Freundlich, Domestic drama
Mine 9: Appalachian disaster indie drama is a horribly plausible horror, with darkness as its chief special effect
ReviewJim SlotekMine 9, Coal mining drama, Appalachia, King Coal, Eddie Mensore, Terry Serpico, Mining disasters, Drew Starkey, Annie Thrash, Clint James, Erin Elizabeth Burns
Original-Cin Q&A: Cate Blanchett talks 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette', conflictedness, Richard Linklater and leaf blowers
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekWhere'd You Go Bernadette?, Cate Blanchett, Maria Semple, Richard Linklater, Emma Nelson, Troian Bellisario, Zoe Chao, Runaway moms, Q&A interviews, Domestic inner turmoil
The Kitchen: A plethora of underserved characters and an uneven tone makes for one undercooked fem-mob movie
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Kitchen, Elizabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Female mob movie, DC comics, DC Vertigo, Ollie Masters, Ming Doyle, Andrea Berloff, Myk Watford, Domhnall Gleeson
Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark: Guillermo del Toro-Produced Creep Show Thin but Jumpy
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in theatres this week
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekWeekly Roundup, Luce, J.C. Lee, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Octavia Spencer, Guillermo del Toro, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Casey Affleck Light of My Life, Anna Pniowsky, Mike Wallace is Here, 60 Minutes, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, Kevin Costner, Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried
Light of My Life: Casey Affleck’s Dystopian Drama an Alternate Look at Parental Love
