Backlash: Misogyny in The Digital Age… Ugly, But Not News
The Tomorrow Job: A Time-Travel Film That’s Best Kept in the Past
Door Mouse: Noir tale of a comic-creator/stripper/investigator is fast but may be literally too graphic
The Super 8 Years: A Home Movie “We-Moir” From A Nobel Laureate
Plane: Patchwork-Quilt Thriller Nods to Many (Many) Films that Came Before
ReviewJim SlotekPlane, Jean-François Richet, Gerard Butler, Paul Ben-Victor, Yoson An, Claro de los Reyes, Mike Colter, Action, thriller, Derivitive
A Man Called Otto: Agreeable Tom Hanks Dramedy a Welcome January Reprieve
ReviewJim SlotekDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, A Man Called Otto, Marc Forster, Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, January opening
M3GAN: Robot Doll Horror-Comedy Explores the Downside of A.I. (Hint: There's Rampant Death)
If These Walls Could Sing: Mary McCartney’s Affectionate Magical Mystery Tour of Abbey Road Studios
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekAbbey Road Studios, If These Walls Could Sing, Mary McCartney, The Beatles, George Martin, Classical recordings, Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline Du Pré, Cliff Richard, Giles Martin, Cilla Black
The Case Against Cosby: Absorbing Doc Surveys Survivor Healing After Sexual Trauma
Hold Me Tight: Vicky Krieps Shines as a Woman Divided and Haunted
The Pale Blue Eye: Period Detective Yarn with Occult Overtones Brings Thrills and Chills
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Pale Blue Eye, Scott Cooper, Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Toby Jones, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Netflix, Period piece, Timothy Spall, Simon McBurney, Edgar Alan Poe, murder mystery, Supernatural thriller
Original-Cin Q&A: Pale Blue Eye’s Christian Bale, Harry Melling on Conjuring Edgar Allan Poe
By Bonnie Laufer
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Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter - A Cautionary Kitchen Tale
Broker: South Korean Baby-for-Sale Tale Less Story than Series of Serio-comic Events
ReviewJim SlotekBroker, South Korean, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Doona Bae, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Joo-young, TIFF 2022, Drama
The Year in Review: The Marvelous, The Meh… and What We Can’t Wait to See in 2023
By Original-Cin Staff
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ReviewJim SlotekOppenheimer, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Everyone Everywhere All At Once, Moonage Daydream, Aftersun, Babylon, Sundown, Daughter of Rage, Barbie, The Sandman, Jurassic World Dominion, Prey, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Petite Maman, Nope, Tar, The Fabelmans, Kimi, Ahed's Knee, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Banshees of Inisherin, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, TIFF 2022, Year in review, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, God's Creatures, Showing Up, Turning Red, Women Talking, Pearl, Final Destination, The Whale, Firestarter, See How They Run, Bodies Bodies Bodies
Women Talking: When Words are the Most Powerful Special Effect
ReviewJim SlotekWomen Talking, Sarah Polley, Religious patriarchy, Miriam Toews, Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod
I Wanna Dance With Somebody: Whitney Houston Biopic Lacks the Sparkle of its Subject
ReviewJim SlotekI Wanna Dance With Somebody, Kasi Lemmons, Anthony McCarten, Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, Clarke Peters, Tamara Tunie, Nafessa Williams, Whitney Houston, Biopic, Music, Drama
Babylon: At Some Point, Even Drug-Fueled Hollywood Orgies Can Wear Thin
By Karen Gordon
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No Bears: Jafar Panahi’s Tragic Iranian Meta-Fiction
ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2022, No Bears, Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjei, Mina Kavani, Narjes Delaram, Darya Alei, Amir Davari, Reza Heydari
Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Patrick J. Adams on Secrets and Lies in The Swearing Jar
By Bonnie Laufer
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