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Wendell & Wild: Weird, Sure… But Not All That Wild

Wendell & Wild: Weird, Sure… But Not All That Wild

By John Kirk

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 28, 2022Wendell & Wild, TIFF 2022, Henry Selick, Jordan Peele, Kegan-Michael Key, Lyric Ross, Netflix, Angela Bassett, Ving Rhames, AnimationComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Wendell & Wild’s James Hong on Animation and the Enduring Genius of Seinfeld

Original-Cin Q&A: Wendell & Wild’s James Hong on Animation and the Enduring Genius of Seinfeld

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 25, 2022James Hong, Wendell & Wild, Henry Selick, TIFF 2022, Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Key & Peele, Animated film, Animated movie voice starsComment

Honk For Jesus: Save Your Soul - The Bigger the Mega-Church, the Harder They Fall

Honk For Jesus: Save Your Soul - The Bigger the Mega-Church, the Harder They Fall

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 30, 2022Satires about evangelism, Honk for Jesus: Save Your Soul, Adamma Ebo, Jordan Peele, Regina Hall, Sterling K. Brown), Prosperity gospel, Conphidance, Religious scandalsComment

Nope: We Say Yep to Jordan Peele's Strange Thriller About What's Hiding Behind a Cloud

Nope: We Say Yep to Jordan Peele's Strange Thriller About What's Hiding Behind a Cloud

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 20, 2022Nope, Jordan Peele, Films about aliens, Films about Hollywood, Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael WincottComment

Original-Cin Year In Review: 2021’s Best and Worst Movies

By Original-Cin Staff

Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekDecember 29, 2021Pig, Nicolas Cage, The Card Counter, Oscar Isaac, Above Suspicion, Emelia Clarke, I'm Your Man, TIFF 2021, Hot Docs 2021., Nope, Jordan Peele, The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Flee, The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Jane Campion, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Avatar 2, Dune, Denis Villeneuve, Halloween Kills, Agnes, The Black Phone, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Maria Chapdelaine, The Northman, Robert Eggers, Encanto, The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright, Olivia Wilde, Judas and the Black Messiah, Drive My Car, Black Conflux, Killers of the Flower Moon, Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth, tick tick BOOM!, Coda, Paul Schrader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington Comment

Candyman: Jordan Peele's 'Real' Sequel Trades Traditional Scares for Grim Mood and Racial Relevancy

Candyman: Jordan Peele's 'Real' Sequel Trades Traditional Scares for Grim Mood and Racial Relevancy

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 26, 2021Candyman, Classic horror reboots, Jordan Peele, Nia DaCosta, Clive Barker, Horror movies with racial themesComment

Toy Story 4: Latest Chapter in Winning Franchise a Bracing Look at Childhood Lost

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJune 19, 2019Keegan-Michael Key, Keanu Reeves, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Christina Hendricks, Annie Potts, Jordan Peele, Toy Story 4, Sequel, Franchise, Disney PixarComment

PODCAST! EP. 16: We like Us, we really, really like Us

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

Us: Jordan Peele's crazy horror fever-dream is ambitious, ambiguous, smart and maybe even commercial

By Jim Slotek