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Juror #2: Justice Is on Trial in Director Clint Eastwood’s Intelligent Latest

Juror #2: Justice Is on Trial in Director Clint Eastwood’s Intelligent Latest

By Liz Braun

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 31, 2024Juror #2, DRama, Clint Eastwood, Jonathan A. Abrams, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina, Courtroom dramaComment

Saturday Night: The Chaos of SNL's Opening Night is a Non-Stop Roller-Coaster of Anxiety

Saturday Night: The Chaos of SNL's Opening Night is a Non-Stop Roller-Coaster of Anxiety

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 1, 2024Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night movie, Director/co-writer Jason Reitman, 1975, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Young actors playing comedy legends, Lamorne Morris, Ella Hunt, Cory Michael Smith, Gabriel LaBelle, J.K. Simmons, Milton BerleComment

Original-Cin Chat: Saturday Night director Jason Reitman on SNL's Generational Reach

Original-Cin Chat: Saturday Night director Jason Reitman on SNL's Generational Reach

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 30, 2024Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night movie, Director/co-writer Jason Reitman, 1975, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Young actors playing comedy legends, Lamorne Morris, Ella Hunt, Cory Michael Smith, Gabriel LaBelle, J.K. Simmons, Milton BerleComment

Original-Cin Q&A: You Can't Run Forever's J.K. Simmons on Going Psycho With His Wife, Daughter and Son

Original-Cin Q&A: You Can't Run Forever's J.K. Simmons on Going Psycho With His Wife, Daughter and Son

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMay 14, 2024J.K. Simmons, Film stars working with multiple family members, You Can’t Run Forever, Filmmaker Michelle Schumacher, Olivia Simmons, Joe Simmons, I'm Not Here, Sebastian Stan, Jason Reitman’s SNL 1975, Milton BerleComment

Spider-Man: No Way Home - A noisy celebration of two decades of Spidey culled from the multiverse

Spider-Man: No Way Home - A noisy celebration of two decades of Spidey culled from the multiverse

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 15, 2021Spider-Man: No Way Home, The multiverse, 20 years of Spider-Man movies, Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, J.K. Simmons, Zendaya, Willem DafoeComment

Being the Ricardos: Aaron Sorkin’s Snappy I Love Lucy Biopic Soars on Novel Approach

Being the Ricardos: Aaron Sorkin’s Snappy I Love Lucy Biopic Soars on Novel Approach

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 11, 2021Biopic, Drama, I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina AriandaComment

21 Bridges: Keep things moving and keep shooting - and did we mention the NYPD is corrupt from the top down?

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 19, 201921 Bridges, Chadwick Boseman, Brian Kirk, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Police action films, Police corruption plots, Taylor Kitsch, Stephan James, Liam Neeson, Sienna Miller, J.K. Simmons, SerpicoComment

Original-Cin TIFF Picks: Friday, September 14

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, and Karen Gordon