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Fleishman Is In Trouble: Disney+ Mini-Series Flips the Script on the Male Story
Fleishman Is In Trouble: Disney+ Mini-Series Flips the Script on the Male Story

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 16, 2022Fleishman Is in Trouble, Stories about sexually promiscuous divorcees, Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Valerie Faris, Lizzy Caplan, Adam BrodyComment
She Said: How #MeToo Was Born, and Weinstein Bagged, Amid the Tedium of Reporting
She Said: How #MeToo Was Born, and Weinstein Bagged, Amid the Tedium of Reporting

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 14, 2022#MeToo, She Said, Harvey Weinstein, Maria Schrader, New York Times, Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rose McGowan, Ashley JuddComment
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse - Dizzying Disney History Ride Needs More Walt... Among Other Things
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse - Dizzying Disney History Ride Needs More Walt... Among Other Things

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 14, 2022Mickey: The Story of a Mouse, Director Jeff Malmberg, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Walt Disney, Connections between man and Mouse, Oswald Rabbit, Steamboat WillieComment
The Wonder: Faith Without Food in 19th Century Post-Famine Ireland
The Wonder: Faith Without Food in 19th Century Post-Famine Ireland

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 14, 2022Florence Pugh, Don’t Worry, Darling, The Wonder, "Miracle" fasts, Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Lady Macbeth, Sarah Jacobs, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Burke, Irish famineComment
Original-Cin Q&A: My Father's Dragon's Jacob Tremblay on voicing animated films as his voice changes
Original-Cin Q&A: My Father's Dragon's Jacob Tremblay on voicing animated films as his voice changes

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekNovember 13, 2022Jacob Tremblay, Child actors growing up, The Little Mermaid, My Father’s Dragon, Netflix movies, Gaten MaterrazoComment
The Menu: Terrific Horror Comedy Deserves Better Than Food Puns (Burp!)
The Menu: Terrific Horror Comedy Deserves Better Than Food Puns (Burp!)

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 10, 2022Horror-comedy, Foodie film, The Menu, Mark Mylod, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult, Judith Light, John Leguizamo, Paul Adelstein, The Exterminating Angel, Luis Buñuel Comment
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Spectacularly Competent Franchise Reinvention, Minus Black Panther
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Spectacularly Competent Franchise Reinvention, Minus Black Panther

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 9, 2022Black Panther: Wakanda Forever., Franchises where a star has died, Chadwick Boseman, Ryan Coogler, Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, Tenoch Huerta, Prince NamorComment
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Darker than Disney, a Fairy Tale Wrapped in Real-World Fascism
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Darker than Disney, a Fairy Tale Wrapped in Real-World Fascism

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 9, 2022Non-Disney versions of Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi’s 1881 novel, Ewan McGregor, Jim Henson Company, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Christoph Waltz, Ron Perlman, Ciao, PapaComment
Rosie: Life on the Street Can Be Really Neat Through the Eyes of a Precocious Child
Rosie: Life on the Street Can Be Really Neat Through the Eyes of a Precocious Child

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 8, 2022Rosie, Gail Maurice, Keris Hope Hill, Melanie Bray, Indigenous adoptees, The Sixties Scoop, Constant Bernard, Alex Trahan, Brandon OakesComment
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms: Grungy Geek Fantasy Promises a 'High' It Can't Deliver
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms: Grungy Geek Fantasy Promises a 'High' It Can't Deliver

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 8, 2022All Jacked Up and Full of Worms, Fantasia International Film Festival, Alex Phillips, Eating worms as a hallucinagen, Phillip Andre Botello, Trevor Dawkins, Betsey BrownComment
Causeway: Damaged-People-Find-Each-Other Drama Unrolls Slowly with Rich Performances
Causeway: Damaged-People-Find-Each-Other Drama Unrolls Slowly with Rich Performances

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 3, 2022Jennifer Lawrence, Damaged-people-find-each-other dramas, Causeway, Lila Neugebauer, Afghan war, New Orleans, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda EmondComment
Cinefranco at 25:  French cinema for the rest of us
Cinefranco at 25: French cinema for the rest of us

By Liam Lacey

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Review, PreviewJim SlotekNovember 3, 2022Cinefranco Film Festiva, Toronto film festivals, En Roue Libre (Freestyle), Mes Tres Cher Enfants (Price of Parenting), L’homme parfait (The Perfect Man), La Pièce rapportée (The Unsophisticated Lady), Claude Lelouch documentary, Maigret, Gérard DepardieuComment
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile - A Straight-Ahead Celebration of Country's 'Outlaw' Women
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile - A Straight-Ahead Celebration of Country's 'Outlaw' Women

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 2, 2022The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile, Kathlyn Horan, Kacey Musgraves, The Chicks, Glen Campbell, Joni Mitchell, Country music documentariesComment
Armageddon Time: James Gray's Tale of a Mixed-Race Friendship, a Child's Eye View of a Complex World
Armageddon Time: James Gray's Tale of a Mixed-Race Friendship, a Child's Eye View of a Complex World

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 2, 2022James Gray, Armageddon Time, Coming of age movies, Issues of race and class, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, Anne HathawayComment
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - Daniel Radcliffe Brings Us Greetings from 'Planet Al'
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - Daniel Radcliffe Brings Us Greetings from 'Planet Al'

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 1, 2022Spoofs of music biopics, Weird Al Yankovic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, TIFF Midnight Madness movies, Funny or Die, Rainn Wilson, Dr. DementoComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Henry Cavill on Enola Holmes 2, and His Return to the Cape as Superman
Original-Cin Q&A: Henry Cavill on Enola Holmes 2, and His Return to the Cape as Superman

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekOctober 31, 2022Enola Holmes 2, Henry Cavill returns to Superman role, The Witcher, Millie Bobby Brown, Sherlock Holmes' siblings, Harry Bradbeer, Sam ClaifinComment
Wendell & Wild: Weird, Sure… But Not All That Wild
Wendell & Wild: Weird, Sure… But Not All That Wild

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 28, 2022Wendell & Wild, TIFF 2022, Henry Selick, Jordan Peele, Kegan-Michael Key, Lyric Ross, Netflix, Angela Bassett, Ving Rhames, AnimationComment
Prey for the Devil: Who Knew There Was a Glass Ceiling for Women Exorcists?
Prey for the Devil: Who Knew There Was a Glass Ceiling for Women Exorcists?

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 28, 2022Exorcism movies, Prey for the Devil, Daniel Stamm, The Last Exorcism, Jacqueline Byers, Colin Salmon, Movies with female exorcistsComment
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues: A Fresh Look at Satchmo from His Home Tapes
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues: A Fresh Look at Satchmo from His Home Tapes

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 28, 2022Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, Louis Armstrong, Sacha Jenkins, TIFF 2022, documentary, Apple TV +, Racism, Music legend biopicsComment
Call Jane: Who Ya Gonna Call When You’re Pregnant in Pre-Roe v Wade America?
Call Jane: Who Ya Gonna Call When You’re Pregnant in Pre-Roe v Wade America?

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 28, 2022U.S. Supreme Court’s Dodd decision, Abortion rights, The Janes documentary, Call Jane drama, Underground Chicago women’s abortion collective, Elizabeth Banks, Kate Mara, Sigourney Weaver, Phyllis NagyComment
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