Caligula: The Ultimate Cut - Raunchy Roman 'Epic' Remains a Bacchanalian Bore
ReviewJim SlotekPenthouse publisher Bob Guccione, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, Filmmaker/art historian Thomas Negovan, Movies that were disavowed by participants, Malcolm McDowell, Dame Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, Sir John Gielgud, Written by Gore Vidal, Roger Ebert, Teresa Ann Savoy
Bad Monkey: Vince Vaughn Revisits Vince Vaughn in Adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s Comic Novel
ReviewJim SlotekMichelle Monaghan, Alex Moffat, Natalie Martinez, Eve Stripling, Ronald Peet, Rob Delaney, David St. Louis, Jodie Turner-Smith, Adaptation, Apple TV+, Bad Monkey, Vince Vaughn, Bill Lawrence, Carl Hiaasen, Black comedy, Miami Beach, Detective series
Good One: Sometimes Less Is More. And Sometimes It’s a Lot More
By Chris Knight
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It Ends With Us: Bestseller Adaptation Well Acted, Poorly Executed
By Chris Knight
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Borderlands: Like Watching Someone Play a First Person Shooter Game - Badly
Balestra: To Dream a Dangerous Dream
ReviewJim SlotekBalestra, Nicole Dorsey, Canadian drama, Cush Jumbo, Manny Jacinto, James Badge Dale, Christin Park, Hannah Duke, Luke Bilyk, Heather Doerksen, Sci fi, Fencing
Sugarcane: Devastating Doc about Canadian Residential Schools Should be Required Viewing
ReviewJim SlotekSugarcane, documentary, Canada, Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Charlene Belleau, Rick Gilbert, Chief Willie Sellars, Ed Archie Noisecat, Indigenous themed films, Residential Schools
Umbrella Academy S4: The Epic Fantasy Becomes Slapstick and Anticlimactic
ReviewJim SlotekThe Umbrella Academy, Netflix, Streaming series, Season Four, Elliot Page, adaptation, comic book, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Aidan Gallagher, David Cross, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Colm Feore, Sci fi, Superheroes
Cuckoo: Great Cast Elevates Wobbly Thriller That’s Kind of Good and Kind of Not
By Chris Knight
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Dance First: Waiting for a Better Bio of Samuel Beckett
The Instigators: Damon and Affleck Are Imperfect… but Entertaining
The Death Tour: A Snowy Road Where Wrestlers Find Reasons to Live
ReviewJim SlotekPro wrestling minor leagues, The Death Tour, Documentaries about wrestling, Northern Indigenous communities, Stephan Peterson, Sonya Ballantyne, The Promoter: The Tony Condello Story, Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, Indigenous wrestlers
Trap: When There's No Film So Bad, You Wouldn't Make It For Your Daughter
Dìdi: Filmmaker’s Delightful Coming-of-Age Story an Homage to Mothers, Family, and Art
Starve Acre: Yet Another Rural British Village with an Evil Secret, What's New?
ReviewJim SlotekBritish movies with evil rural settings, Starve Acre, Daniel Kokotajlo, Novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Church of England anti-demon Deliverance Ministry, Erin Richards, Sean Gilder, Animal cruelty scene
Sing Sing: Caged Free Spirits Put on a Show in a Reality-Based Tale of Jailhouse Musical Theatre
By Chris Knight
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Only the River Flows: Challenges of Pre-Digital Age 1990s Power Crafty Police Procedural
By Chris Knight
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Kneecap: If 'A Hard Days Night' had Drugs, Nudity, Anarchy and Gaelic Profanity
ReviewJim SlotekKneecap, Rich Peppiatt, DJ Próvai, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, Josie Walker, Michael Fassbender, Simone Kirby, Music biopic, Irish
Crossing: Odd Couple Road Movie Celebrates the Joys of Ambiguity
ReviewJim SlotekCrossing, Drama, Georgian, Istanbul, Levan Akin, Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli, Levan Bochorishvili, Ziya Sudancikmaz, LGBTQ+, LGBT issues
The Fabulous Four: Definitely Not Fabulous, But Uplifting and Fun
