Fair Game: Reissued Ozploitation Thriller a Queasy Look Back at Female Vengeance Genre
ReviewJim SlotekFair Game, Ozploitation, 1980s, Re-release, Female Vengeance, Mario Andreacchio, Australian, Cassandra Delaney, Peter Ford, Don Barker, Garry Who, Thriller, Outback, Genre films
Where The Crawdads Sing: Adaptation of Bestseller Faithful to the Point of Redundancy
ReviewJim SlotekWhere The Crawdads Sing, Adaptation, Delia Owens, Olivia Newman, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, David Strathairn, Sterling Macer, Jr., Drama, Murder mystery
The Gray Man: Still in Action Mode, Ex-Avengers Directors Deliver a Lower Tier John Wick
ReviewJim SlotekThe Russo Brothers, Avengers, CIA action films, The Gray Man, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, John Wick, International assassins, Ana de Armas, Dhanush, Mark Lindsay Silver Bird
Persuasion: Dakota Johnson in a Jane Austen Adaptation is Decidedly Unpersuasive
ReviewJim SlotekJane Austen, Period romance, Period piece, Persuasion, Carrie Cracknell, Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Richard E. Grant, Henry Golding, Netflix, Izuka Hoyle, Ben Bailey-Smith
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris: Predictable, Light Fare as a Brit Maid Seeks Fashion Above Her Station
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMovies about the British class system, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico, Lesley Manville, Ellen Thomas, Jason Isaacs, Isabelle Huppert, Anthony Fabian, Jenny Beavan, Light comedies
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song Explores What Everybody Knows, and Much We Don’t
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentary, Music documentaries, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Song, A Journey, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Leonard Cohen, John Lissauer, Judy Collins, Adrienne Clarkson, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, Rufus Wainwright, Brandi Carlile
The Deer King: Japanese Weaponized Deer and The Fever Dogs of War
Original-Cin Q&A: Some Words - Including 'Oh My!' - From George Takei on Voicing a Cat in Paws of Fury
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Scream Queen Alice Krige on Trauma, Healing and Mining Both in She Will
ReviewJim SlotekHorror, Fantasy, Witches, Trauma, Revenge, She Will, Charlotte Colbert, Alice Krige, Malcolm McDowell, Rupert Everett, Kota Eberhardt, John McCrea, Jonathan Aris, Daniel Lapaine
Neptune Frost: Anti-Colonial, Gender-Fluid Political Rave Up Boasts Triumphant Imagery
Black Bird: Creepy, But Facile Series About a Jock and his Serial Killer Buddy
Apples: An Amnesia Pandemic Provides Fodder for this Debut Feature About Identity and Loss
By Karen Gordon
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Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel a Negligible Add to the Fabled Building's Canon
Thor: Love and Thunder - Fun Ride with Quips, Personal Crises, Cameos and Jane With the Hammer
By Karen Gordon
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Fourth of July: Louis C.K. Quietly Returns to Directing With a 'Safe' Dysfunctional Family Tale
Original-Cin Q&A: Karl Urban on Hunting Animated Sea Beasts and Being Covered in Blood on The Boys
By Bonnie Laufer
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Marcel The Shell with Shoes On: A Man and Mollusk in a Therapeutic Bond
Attack on Finland: Sort of 'Helsinki has Fallen,' But Devoid of Fun and Nonsense
The Passengers of the Night: French Film Plumbs the Quiet Joy of Ordinary Life. Shhh.
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekFrench films, Quiet angst, The Passengers of the Night, Mikhaël Hers, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emmanuelle Béart, Megan Northam, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita, Women rebuilding their lives
Interview (With SPOILERS): Star Trek's First Blind Actor on Cancer, Family and Facing Death
Interview, PreviewJim SlotekStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Blind actors playing blind characters, Bruce Horak, Aenar, a blind species of the Andorian, Celia Rose Gooding, The Gorn, S1E9 “All Those Who Wander”, Characters who die
