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Only Murders in the Building, Season 4: Killing It in Hollyweird

Only Murders in the Building, Season 4: Killing It in Hollyweird

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 26, 2024Comedy mystery series, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building Season 4, Hollywood murder theme, Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, Jin Ha, Richard Kind, Melissa McCarthy, Disney+Comment

TIFF ’21 Capsule Reviews, Round Four

TIFF ’21 Capsule Reviews, Round Four

By Jim Slotek, Linda Barnard, Thom Ernst, Karen Gordon, Kim Hughes, Liam Lacey, and Bonnie Laufer

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 13, 2021TIFF 2021, Memoria, Special Events, Tilda Swinton, Nobody Has To Know, Bouli Lanners, Michelle Fairley, The Starling, Special Presentations, Dashcam, Midnight Madness, Ali & Ava, Clio Barnard, Rob Savage, Chris O'Dowd, Melissa McCarthyComment

The Kitchen: A plethora of underserved characters and an uneven tone makes for one undercooked fem-mob movie

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 11, 2019The Kitchen, Elizabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Female mob movie, DC comics, DC Vertigo, Ollie Masters, Ming Doyle, Andrea Berloff, Myk Watford, Domhnall GleesonComment

Your Weekend Film Roundup: What to See (and Skip) in the Theatres.

By Original-Cin staff

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Fact-Based Drama Brings the Best of Melissa McCarthy

By Kim Hughes

ReviewOctober 24, 2018Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Jane Curtin, Nicole Holofcener, Marielle Heller, Lee Israel, TIFF 2018, Black comedy, Drama, Noel Coward, Dorothy Parker, forgery, literary forgery, adaptationComment

Love, Gilda: Heartfelt Doc on Late, Beloved SNL Alum Hits All the Right Notes

By Kim Hughes

ReviewSeptember 20, 2018Hot Docs, documentary, Gilda Radner, Saturday Night Live, Martin Short, Paul Shaffer, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Poehler

The Happytime Murders: When bad puppet sex is worse than no puppet sex at all

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 22, 2018R-rated puppetry, The Jim Henson Company, Henson Alternative, Brian Henson, Melissa McCarthy, Improv comedy, Elizabeth Banks, Todd Berger, Patrick Bristow, Puppet sex

Original-Cin Q&A: The 'next Henson' goes rogue w/Happytime Murders - 'My dad's up there thinking I'm crazy.'

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekAugust 21, 2018R-rated puppetry, The Jim Henson Company, Henson Alternative, Brian Henson, Melissa McCarthy, Improv comedy, Elizabeth Banks, Todd Berger, Patrick Bristow, Puppet sex

Spy Who Dumped Me: 'Best friends' action comedy is really an out-of-control one-woman show

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 2, 2018Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Spy comedies, female action comedies, Justin Theroux, Susanna Fogel, Gillian Anderson, Saturday Night Live, CIA, Jason Bourne

Life of the Party: Dead on Arrival, And Scant Fun To Boot

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMay 10, 2018Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, comedy, coming of age, midlife crisis