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Clairtone: Remembering the Canadian 60s Stereo Console with Big Shiny Balls
Clairtone: Remembering the Canadian 60s Stereo Console with Big Shiny Balls

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 20, 2025Clairtone, Documentary, Ron Mann, Canadian film, Nina Munk, Peter Munk, David Gilmour, 1960sComment
Is This Thing On?:  Will Arnett Plays Serious in Standup Comedy (and Divorce)
Is This Thing On?: Will Arnett Plays Serious in Standup Comedy (and Divorce)

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 18, 2025Movies about standup comedy, Will Arnett, Is This Thing On?, Director co-writer Bradley Cooper, New York's Comedy Cellar, Laura Dern, Liz Furiati, British comic John Bishop, Andra Day, Dave Attell, Scott Icenogle, Sean HayesComment
Breakdown 1975: Doc Suggests We’ll Survive Our Current Moment (and Our Movies Might Improve)
Breakdown 1975: Doc Suggests We’ll Survive Our Current Moment (and Our Movies Might Improve)

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 18, 2025Breakdown 1975, Netflix films, Documentaries, Morgan Neville, Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese, Ellen Burstyn, Patton Oswalt, John Brolin, Seth Rogen, Films from 1975, Classic American cinema Comments
Code 3: Rainn Wilson stars in a Dramatic 9/11 Call for the Health Care System
Code 3: Rainn Wilson stars in a Dramatic 9/11 Call for the Health Care System

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 17, 2025Movies about first responders, Code 3, Rainn Wilson, Director Christopher Leone, Yvette Nicole Brown, Aimee Carrero, Rob Riggle, Fourth wall dramatic commentaryComment
Original-Cin Chat: Will Arnett on Developing Stand-Up Muscles in Is This Thing On?
Original-Cin Chat: Will Arnett on Developing Stand-Up Muscles in Is This Thing On?

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 17, 2025Movies about standup comedy, Will Arnett, Is This Thing On?, Director co-writer Bradley Cooper, New York's Comedy Cellar, Laura Dern, Liz Furiati, British comic John Bishop, Using a divorce as comedy materialComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Aimee Carrero on the Rigors of Playing a Paramedic in New Film Code 3
Original-Cin Q&A: Aimee Carrero on the Rigors of Playing a Paramedic in New Film Code 3

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekDecember 16, 2025Code 3, Amanda Carrero, Rainn Wilson, Lil Rey Howery, Drama, VOD, ParamedicsComment
Avatar: Fire and Ash - Cameron's Space-Colonizing Epic Takes an 'Enemy of My Enemy' Turn
Avatar: Fire and Ash - Cameron's Space-Colonizing Epic Takes an 'Enemy of My Enemy' Turn

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 16, 2025Avatar, Metaphor for European colonization, Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron, War between the Na'vi, Ash People, Oona Chaplin, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Britain Dalton, Jack Champion, Stephen LangComment
Fallout S2: Getting the Hang of The Game
Fallout S2: Getting the Hang of The Game

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 16, 2025Fallout, Fallout Season Two, Season Two, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham Wagner, Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Prime Video, Frances Turner, Moisés Arias, Kyle MacLachlan, based on a video game, Science fictionComment
Cover Up: The Atrocities Seymour Hersh Has Seen and Exposed
Cover Up: The Atrocities Seymour Hersh Has Seen and Exposed

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 13, 2025Documentarian as "storyteller", Laura Poitras, Cover-Up, Investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh, The My Lai massacre, Abu Ghraib prison, Woodward and Bernstein, Watergate, The Dark Side of Camelot, Sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, Chemical weapons in Syrian civil war Comment
Dust Bunny: Mads Mikkelsen Makes Assassin-as-Father-Figure Work in Eccentric Drama
Dust Bunny: Mads Mikkelsen Makes Assassin-as-Father-Figure Work in Eccentric Drama

By Liz Braun

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 11, 2025Dust Bunny, TIFF '25, Bryan Fuller, Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, Sophie Sloan, Fantastical, DramaComment
Ella McCay: A Feisty Young Woman in a Feel-Good Movie Stuck in Faux Nostalgia
Ella McCay: A Feisty Young Woman in a Feel-Good Movie Stuck in Faux Nostalgia

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 11, 2025Ella McCay, Politically themed comedy, Emma Mackey, James L. Brooks, Albert Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Kavner, Movies set during the Obama administration, Jack Lowden, Woody HarrelsonComment
Resurrection: Director Bi Gan’s Latest a Fantastical Trip for (and About) the Senses
Resurrection: Director Bi Gan’s Latest a Fantastical Trip for (and About) the Senses

By Alice Shih

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 11, 2025Resurrection, Bi Gan, Science fiction, Fantastical, Shu Qi, Jackson Yee, Chen Yongzhong, Mark Chao, Cannes, Chinese, Chinese science fiction, Drama Comments
One More Shot: It’s Like a Hot Tub Tequila Groundhog Time Machine Friends Episode
One More Shot: It’s Like a Hot Tub Tequila Groundhog Time Machine Friends Episode

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 10, 2025Time travel comedies, Friends-like pals, Australian films, One More Shot, Emily Browning, Sucker Punch, Ashley Zukerman, Anna McGahan, Contessa Treffone, Director Nicholas CliffordComment
Original-Cin Chat: James L. Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis and Albert Brooks talk Ella McCay
Original-Cin Chat: James L. Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis and Albert Brooks talk Ella McCay

By Jim Slotek

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InterviewJim SlotekDecember 9, 2025Ella McCay, Politically themed comedy, Emma Mackey, James L. Brooks, Albert Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Kavner, Movies set during the Obama administration, Jack Lowden, Rebecca HallComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Percy Jackson's Cast and Creator on Chariot Racing and enduring The Ironclad
Original-Cin Q&A: Percy Jackson's Cast and Creator on Chariot Racing and enduring The Ironclad

By John Kirk

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Jim SlotekDecember 8, 2025Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Second season of young gods, The Sea of Monsters, Walker Scobel, Leah Sava Jeffries, Daniel Diemer, Creator Rick Riordan, Chariot racing, Authors creating TV adaptationsComment
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Young Gods Keep True in Season Two
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Young Gods Keep True in Season Two

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 8, 2025Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Second season of young gods, The Sea of Monsters, Walker Scobel, Leah Sava Jeffries, Daniel Diemer, Aryan Simhadri, Creator Rick RiordanComment
Wake Up Dead Man: Rian Johnson Delivers a Holy Gift for Mystery Lovers
Wake Up Dead Man: Rian Johnson Delivers a Holy Gift for Mystery Lovers

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 5, 2025The Knives Out series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Whodunnits, Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc, Murder in a church, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Director Rian Johnson, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Thomas Haden Church Comment
Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Animatronics Unbound, More In-Jokes for Gamers
Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Animatronics Unbound, More In-Jokes for Gamers

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 4, 2025Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Movie versions of popular video games, Creator Scott Cawthon, Murderous animatronics, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew LillardComment
Merrily We Roll Along: Sondheim’s 1981 “Flop” Completes Its Comeback
Merrily We Roll Along: Sondheim’s 1981 “Flop” Completes Its Comeback

By Chris Knight

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 4, 2025Merrily We Roll Along, Maria Friedman, Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez, Broadway, Movies based on Broadway musicals, Stephen Sondheim, MusicalComment
The Secret Agent: 70s-Era Brazilian Thriller with an Absurdist Twist One of the Year’s Best
The Secret Agent: 70s-Era Brazilian Thriller with an Absurdist Twist One of the Year’s Best

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 3, 2025The Secret Agent, TIFF '25, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Alice Carvahlo, Maria Fernando Cândido, Brazilian, Drama, Thriller, Political thriller, Portuguese, CannesComment
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