Fleishman Is In Trouble: Disney+ Mini-Series Flips the Script on the Male Story
She Said: How #MeToo Was Born, and Weinstein Bagged, Amid the Tedium of Reporting
ReviewJim Slotek#MeToo, She Said, Harvey Weinstein, Maria Schrader, New York Times, Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse - Dizzying Disney History Ride Needs More Walt... Among Other Things
The Wonder: Faith Without Food in 19th Century Post-Famine Ireland
ReviewJim SlotekFlorence Pugh, Don’t Worry, Darling, The Wonder, "Miracle" fasts, Sebastián Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Lady Macbeth, Sarah Jacobs, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Burke, Irish famine
The Menu: Terrific Horror Comedy Deserves Better Than Food Puns (Burp!)
ReviewJim SlotekHorror-comedy, Foodie film, The Menu, Mark Mylod, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult, Judith Light, John Leguizamo, Paul Adelstein, The Exterminating Angel, Luis Buñuel
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Spectacularly Competent Franchise Reinvention, Minus Black Panther
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Darker than Disney, a Fairy Tale Wrapped in Real-World Fascism
ReviewJim SlotekNon-Disney versions of Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi’s 1881 novel, Ewan McGregor, Jim Henson Company, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Christoph Waltz, Ron Perlman, Ciao, Papa
Rosie: Life on the Street Can Be Really Neat Through the Eyes of a Precocious Child
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms: Grungy Geek Fantasy Promises a 'High' It Can't Deliver
Causeway: Damaged-People-Find-Each-Other Drama Unrolls Slowly with Rich Performances
Cinefranco at 25: French cinema for the rest of us
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCinefranco Film Festiva, Toronto film festivals, En Roue Libre (Freestyle), Mes Tres Cher Enfants (Price of Parenting), L’homme parfait (The Perfect Man), La Pièce rapportée (The Unsophisticated Lady), Claude Lelouch documentary, Maigret, Gérard Depardieu
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile - A Straight-Ahead Celebration of Country's 'Outlaw' Women
Armageddon Time: James Gray's Tale of a Mixed-Race Friendship, a Child's Eye View of a Complex World
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - Daniel Radcliffe Brings Us Greetings from 'Planet Al'
Wendell & Wild: Weird, Sure… But Not All That Wild
ReviewJim SlotekWendell & Wild, TIFF 2022, Henry Selick, Jordan Peele, Kegan-Michael Key, Lyric Ross, Netflix, Angela Bassett, Ving Rhames, Animation
Prey for the Devil: Who Knew There Was a Glass Ceiling for Women Exorcists?
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues: A Fresh Look at Satchmo from His Home Tapes
Call Jane: Who Ya Gonna Call When You’re Pregnant in Pre-Roe v Wade America?
The Banshees of Inisherin: Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Shine in a 'Civil War' Over a Broken Friendship
By Karen Gordon
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Original-Cin Q&A: Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues Director Sacha Jenkins on the 'World's Most Famous' Jazzman
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