Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos Offers Three Kinds, All Weirdly Undercooked
ReviewJim SlotekYorgos Lanthimos, Provocative critical hits, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, Anthology features, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Writer Efthimis Filippou, Mamoudou Athie, Hong Chau
Poor Things: Darkly Comic, Disturbing Satire Like Nothing Else You've Seen This Year
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Cruella: Darkly fun fashion fable about a Disney-villain-in-training, with no dogs harmed - yet
ReviewJim SlotekMovie villains' back stories, Cruella de Vil, Cruella, 101 Dalmatians, Emma Stone, Emily Beecham, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Emma Thompson, he Devil Wears Prada, Jenny Beavan, Craig Gillespie, Movies set in the fashion world
Zombieland: Double Tap - A hilarious splash of 'who cares?' in a world full of zombie apocalypses
ReviewJim SlotekZombieland: Double Tap, Zombieland, Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don't Die, Zombie comedies, Long delayed sequels, The Walking Dead, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Jesse Eisenberg, T-800 Terminator, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Zoey Deutch, Rosario Dawson, Ruben Fleischer
What to See (And What to Skip) In Theatres This Weekend
ReviewJim SlotekThe Favourite, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, The Go-Getters, Jeremy Lalonde, Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Anna and the Apocalypse, Ella Hunt, Almost Almost Famous, Celebrity impersonators, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Award-season favourite The Favourite: A brilliant blend of Restoration comedy and arch political satire
ReviewJim SlotekThe Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Deborah Davies, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weiss, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Queen Anne, Lady Sarah Churchill, Abigail Masham, The War of Spanish Succession, Robert Harley, Jonathan Swift, Robbie Ryan, Sandy Powell
PODCAST! Ep. 3 - The critics were wrong about Bohemian Rhapsody (or so say some of us!)
PodcastJim SlotekMovie podcasts, Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, The Go-Getters, Canadian comedies, Woody Allen, Holiday Season movies, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, Bonnie Laufer, Karen Gordon, Jim Slotek, The Favourite, Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weiss
