Standing Up, Falling Down: Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz bond in a gentle movie about failure and friendship
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekStanding Up, Falling Down, Ben Schwartz, Billy Crystal, Movies about failure and regret, Male relationships, Eloise Mumford, Manson Family Vacation, Matt Ratner, Peter Hoare, Killing Hasselhoff
Space and Time: Metaphysically Minded Romance Offers Little More Than the Bummer of their Discontent
ReviewJim SlotekSpace and Time, Shawn Gerrard, Carl Sagan, Mark Duplass, Victoria Kucher, Steven Yaffee, Metaphysics, Romance, Movies set in Toronto, Toronto Islands, First time directors
The Call of the Wild: Jack London's classic good-dog story gets a metaphysical and CGI assist
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekChris Sanders, How to Train Your Dragon, The Call of the Wild, Jack London, Harrison Ford, Animal stars, CGI motion capture, Omar Sy, Cara Gee, Dan Stevens, Movies set in the North, Family movies, Snidely Whiplash, Terry Notary, The Square
The Lodge: Thoroughly Unnerving Horror Upends Horror Genre at Every Turn
ReviewThe Lodge, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, Goodnight Mommy, Alicia Silverstone, Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Horror, Thriller, Jaeden Martell, LIa McHugh
Ordinary Love: Extraordinary performances from Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson in quietly powerful drama
By Linda Barnard
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ReviewJim SlotekOrdinary Love, Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Breast cancer, Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn, Cherrybomb, Good Vibrations, Owen McCafferty, Seniors relationships
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres This Weekend
By Original-Cin Staff
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Fantasy Island: All talk, no 'FUNtasy' in this dumb idea of a horror remake
ReviewJim SlotekFantasy Island, Blumhouse Productions, Paranormal Activity, Get Out., Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Jeff Wadlow, Truth or Dare, Michael Peña, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Horror remakes of TV series, Lucy Hale, Maggie Q, Ryan Hansen, Jimmy O. Yang, Austin Stowell, Portia Doubleday, Kim Coates, Michael Rooker
Nose To Tail: Smart, Unflinching Canuck Indie Lives Day-in-the-Life of Monster Chef
Downhill: The title says it all in this ill-conceived Hollywood remake of a subtle Swedish comedy/drama
ReviewJim SlotekRuben Östlund, Force Majeure, Downhill, Hollywood remakes of foreign films, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Masculinity and cowardice, Julian Grey, Ammon Jacob Ford, Zach Woods, Zoe Chao, Avalanche, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, Miranda Otto
Q&A: Director Jesse Zigelstein’s Ace Debut Deftly Explores Hipster Chef Culture
Portrait of a Lady on Fire: More a smoulder, but a rich picture of two women's relationship in pre-Revolution France.
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekClaire Mathon, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu, Cannes Film Festival, Period same-sex romance, Queer Palm, Alliance of Women Film Journalists, César Awards, Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Valeria Golino, Pre-Revolutionary France, French films
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the thea
ReviewJim SlotekWeek's movies in review, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Margot Robbie, Cathy Yan, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ali Wong, Ewan McGregor, DC Comics, The Assistant, Harvey Weinstein, Julia Garner, Ozark, Kitty Green, Toxic workplaces, The Traitor, Marco Bellocchio, Tommaso Buscetta, Mafia informer, Alex Gibney, Citizen K, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Come To Daddy, Stephen McHattie
Original-Cin Alt-Oscars: What We'd Change About Sunday's Show
By Original-Cin Staff
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ViewsJim SlotekOscar snubs, Apollo 11 documentary, Todd Douglas Miller, American Factory, Greta Gerwig, Louisa May Alcot, Little Women, Timothée Chalamet’, Saoirse Ronan, Uncut Gems., Adam Sandler, The Lighthouse, Jarin Blakshke, Robert Eggers, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Terrence Malick, A Hidden Life, Franz Jägerstätter, August Diehl, Uncut Gems, Schitt's Creek, Harpoon
Birds of Prey: No deep meaning, just a fun, violent, '60s-Gothamesque commitment to the ridiculous
ReviewJim SlotekHarley Quinn, Christina Hodson, Bumblebee, Margot Robbie, Suicide Squad, David Ayer, Ewan McGregor, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Huntress, Chris Messina, Todd Phillips, Joker, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
The Traitor: Italian Master’s Fact-Based Mafia Drama Visually Rich but Narratively Middling
ReviewThe Traitor, TIFF 2019, Marco Bellochio, Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Candido, Fausto Russo Alesi, Nicola Cali, fact based drama, italian movies, Mafia, Revenge
Citizen K: Alex Gibney doc about the oligarch who took on Putin recycles too much before payoff
ReviewJim SlotekCitizen K, Alex Gibney, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room, Derk Sauer, Moscow Times, Boris Yeltsin, Yukos
The Assistant: Bad Boss and Besieged Junior Boost Powerful #MeToo-Era Drama
Original-Cin Q&A: The Assistant director Kitty Green about filmdom's toxic beyond-Harvey atmosphere
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekThe Assistant, Kitty Green, Harvey Weinstein, Abusive workplace environments, Sexual misconduct, Menial tasks assigned to women, Documentarians turned fiction filmmakers, Casting JonBenet, Scott Rudin, Julia Garner, Ozark, Matthew Macfadyen, Succession, #MeToo
Come to Daddy: Stephen McHattie's weirdo bad-dad is a brief highlight in full-bore gore-fest
By Linda Barnard
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ReviewJim SlotekCome to Daddy, Elijah Wood, Ant Timpson, Stephen McHattie, Domestic horror, Turbo Kid, The Greasy Strangler, Toby Harvard, Martin Donovan, Michael Smiley, Violence and gore
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres
Jim SlotekThe week's movies in theatres, Rosie, Sarah Greene, David Cronenberg, Rabid, Horror movie reboots, Jen and Sylvia Soska, Gretel and Hansel, Oz Perkins, Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Fairy tale reboots, Blake Lively\, The Rhythm Section, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, The Human Rights Watch Film Festival
