Spinning Gold: A Complicated Music Figure, Through a Filmmaker Son's Upbeat Prism
By Karen Gordon
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Original-Cin Q&A: Unstable's Rob Lowe on Simpatico with his Co-Star Son and His All-Ages Fanbase
By Bonnie Laufer
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ReviewJim SlotekFather and son acting tandems, Rob Lowe, John Owen Lowe, Unstable, 9-1-1: Lone Star, The West Wing, Parks and Recreation, The Grinder, Netflix series, The Outsiders
Dungeons & Dragons: A Player’s Delight and a Gateway Drug for Non-Players
ReviewJim SlotekDungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Fantasy, Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Role-play, Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Hugh Grant, Daisy Head, Chloe Coleman, Sophia Lillis, Adaptation, CGI
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis, Lots of Countries, Always Waving
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV - Father of Video Art, Impactful and Enigmatic
A Thousand and One: Intense Sundance-Approved Family Drama Not Exactly as Shown
ReviewJim SlotekA Thousand and One, Family drama, Sundance Grand Jury Prize, A.V. Rockwell, Teyana Taylor, Will Catlett, Josiah Cross, Aven Courtney, Aaron Kingsley Adetola, New York
Tetris: Docudrama Reveals Unknown History about Ubiquitous, Fan-Favourite Game
A Good Person: Florence Pugh's Pill-Popping Journey is An Ordeal for All
88: Would-Be Thriller About Neo-Nazis in U.S. Politics Barely Feels Like Fiction
ReviewJim Slotek88, Political thriller, U.S. politics, Eromose, Brandon Victor Dixon, Naturi Naughton, Orlando Jones, Thomas Sadoski, William Fichtner, Kenneth Choi, Nazis, Neo-Nazism
The Lost King: Smart Fact-Based Historical Biopic Rewrites Shakespeare For Better
By Karen Gordon
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You Can Live Forever: Gay Teen Life in a Jehovah's Witness Village Where 'The Truth' is a Tight Fit
By Chris Knight
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The Five Devils: Sniffing for Meaning in an Odd French Multicultural, Bisexual Psychodrama
John Wick: Chapter 4 - Overcoming the Overkill in Looney Tunes Style
Ithaka: Family-Led Portrait of Julian Assange Flies the Flag for Sympathy and Freedom
Riceboy Sleeps: Mother-Son Relations Exalted and Explored in Acclaimed Canuck Drama
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekRiceboy Sleeps, Canadian film, TFCA, Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, TIFF 2022, Anthony Shim, Choi Seung-Yoon, Ethan Hwang, Dohyun Noel Huang, Korean cinema
Boston Strangler: Latest Remake Smartly Follows Female Reporters on the Case
ReviewJim SlotekBoston Strangler, Matt Ruskin, Keira Knightly, Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Chris Cooper, David Dastmalchian, True crime, Disney+, 1960s
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman - Dave's Yin and Bono's Earnest Yang Mix Well
Tenzin: A Veil of Illusion In Toronto’s Little Tibet
Shazam: Fury of the Gods - Bringing Back the Simplest of Kid-Level Comic Book Pleasures
Supercell: Low-Budget Twister Film Has its Moments - None of Which Belong to Anne Heche or Alec Baldwin
