Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - Will Ferrell's man-child persona finds a warmly absurd Icelandic heart in this pop spoof
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekWill Ferrell, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Andrew Steele, David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers., Icelandic characters, Celine Dion, ABBA, Pierce Brosnan, Jaja Ding Dong, Dan Stevens, Jamie Demetriou, Natasia Demetriou, What We Do in the Shadows
Force of Nature: Just Another Run-of-the-Mill Art Heist Troubled Cop Natural Disaster Movie
ReviewForce of Nature, Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth, Emile Hirsch, Michael Polish, Cory Miller, Action, disaster movie, Cops, Art heist
The 11th Green: Oddball Time-Travelling Drama Captures Paranoid Political Moment
Who Farted?: Doc by prankster Nerenberg is a colourless, odourless 'gas,' with a whiff of serious overtones
ReviewJim SlotekAlbert Nerenberg, Prankish documentaries, Morgan Spurlock, Michael Moore, Who Farted?, World Fart Championships in Northern Finland, Nik Sheehan, FLicKeR, Whoopee Cushion, Le Pétomane, Mr. Methane, Simon Cowell, Harrison Ford, Greenhouse gases from flatulence, Methane released from permafrost, Fart jokes
Hammer: Canuck Crime Drama Buoyed By Understatement and Solid Acting
Irresistible: Jon Stewart directs a political comedy with less bite than we expected, but some thoughts to chew on
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekJon Stewart, The Daily Show, Talk show host turned filmmaker, Irresistible, Super PACs, Bellwether U.S. elections, Steve Carell, Chris Cooper, Brent Sexton, Mackenzie Davis, Rose Byrne, Jon Ossoff, Veep, Rosewater, Trevor Potter, Dark money in elections
Exit Plan: Hallucinogenic, Slow-Burn Thriller Offers Chills and a Cerebral Buzz
Mr. Jones: With an uneven plot and a profound and powerful silent act, Agnieszka Holland wades into Ukraine's Holodomor
ReviewJim SlotekAgnieszka Holland, Ukrainian Holodomor, Mr. Jones, Gareth Jones, Josef Stalin, Collectivization deaths, Man-made famine, James Norton, Europa Europa, Walter Duranty, Compromised media, Peter Sarsgaard, Vanessa Kirby
The Rest of Us: A dead man's two families grudgingly cohabit in a sweet spirited film that plays like a pilot
ReviewJim SlotekExtended families learning to live together, The Rest of Us, Aisling Chin-Yee, Half siblings, Alanna Francis, Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour, Abigail Pniowsky, Big Little Lies
Original-Cin Review/Interview: Stealing School director Li Dong talks 'Asian Fs,' school's exaggerated importance and absurd tribunals
Review, InterviewJim SlotekStealing School, Li Dong, Academic tribunals, plagiarism accusations, Celine Tsai, racism, Jonathan Keltz, Over importance of academia, Michelle Monteith, Matthew Edison, Mpho Koah, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz
You Don’t Nomi: Doc of Kitsch Classic Showgirls Shows What Legacies Look Like
Think Like a Dog: Overly busy kidflick is a bit of a bow-wow, but you will say, 'Awww'
ReviewJim SlotekTalking dog movies, Think Like a Dog, Apple TV+’, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Doctor Dolittle, Gabriel Bateman, Chinese box office, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Kunal Nayyar, The Big Bang Theory, Neo Hooo, Gil Junger, Todd Stashwick
Original-Cin/Hollywood Suite Cross-Promo: Liam Lacey Programs Disturbing Relationships Into The 'Decades' Channels
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Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekCactus Flower, The End of the Affair, Death in Venice, Fatal Attraction, War of the Roses, Hollywood Suite, Shoot The Moon, Single White Female, The Crying Game, You Can Count on Me, Blue Valentine, Gone Girl, Drama, Comedy, Neil Jordan, Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling, Goldie Hawn, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee squeezes a mini-series worth of contrivances to get us from Vietnam to Black Lives Matter
ReviewJim SlotekSpike Lee, Da 5 Bloods, Vietnam War, Black Lives Matter, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Kevin Willmott, Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Norm Lewis, Chadwick Boseman, Jonathan Majors, Johnny Nguyen, Mélanie Thierry, Jean Reno, Newton Thomas Sigel, Terence Blanchard, The Chambers Brothers, Marvin Gaye
Original-Cin Q&A: Palestinian director Elia Suleiman talks about his absurdist approach to inflammatory reality
Review, InterviewJim SlotekElia Suleiman, It Must Be Heaven, Palestinian filmmaker, Absurdist social comment, Guy Sprung, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Movies released online during pandemic, Yasmine Hamdan, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati
The King of Staten Island: Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson squeeze tenderhearted comedy out of dark reality
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekJudd Apatow, Pete Davidson, The King of Staten Island, Saturday Night Live alumni, Dave Sirus, Marisa Tomei, 9/11, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow, Bill Burr, Steve Buscemi
Shoot to Marry: Toronto Filmmaker’s Madcap Search for Love Yields Laughs… and Gravity
Searching Eva: Deliberately surface-deep portrait of an anxiety-stricken influencer passes off superficiality as art
Judy & Punch: Fearlessly Dark Fable Powered by Puppets, Performance… and Fearsome Payback
ReviewMirrah Foulkes, Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Judy & Punch, Medieval, Black comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Puppets, Marionettes, Vice
The Rabbi Goes West: Soul-saving Hasidim in Montana face neo-Nazis to the right, 'reform' Jews to the left
ReviewJim SlotekThe Rabbi Goes West, Chaim Bruk, Chabad Lubavitch, Bozeman, Montana., Orthodox Jews, Reform and Conservative Jews, Small town Judaism, Gerald Peary, Amy Geller, mezuzah, Whitefish, Montana, Radical white supremacists, Richard Spencer
