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Friday Review Roundup: Village Keeper and A Working Man Offer a Whole Lot of Meh

Friday Review Roundup: Village Keeper and A Working Man Offer a Whole Lot of Meh

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 27, 2025Village Keeper, TIFF 24, A Working Man, Jason Statham, Drama, Action films, Michael Peña, Karen Chapman, Olunike Adeliyi, Maxine Simpson, March openingsComment

Mission: Impossible - Fallout: An action-film greatest-hits of death-defying, always-escapable predicaments

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 25, 2018Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Christopher McQuarrie, Actors doing stunts, Action films

Original-Cin Q&A: Simon Pegg on Cruise's action-jones, 'It's easy to dismiss it as insane'

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 24, 2018Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Christopher McQuarrie, Actors doing stunts, Action films

Hey, I CAN smell what The Rock is cooking!: A hot mess called Skyscraper

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 12, 2018Dwayne Johnson, Action films, Die Hard, The Towering Inferno, Giant office towers, Neve Campbell, Hong Kong, Summer blockbusters