O’dessa: A Symphony without a Song
The Alto Knights: Robert De Niro Plays Antagonists in a Mafia Film That Lacks Spark
By Karen Gordon
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Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants - A Wide-Ranging Doc on a Wide-Ranging Animal
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekElephant habitats, Global treatment of elephants, Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants, Director Fern Levitt, Pinnawala, Brazil’s Global Sanctuary for Elephants, Elephant art, African Lion Safari, Performing Animal Welfare Society, Bob Barker
Black Bag: Blanchett and Fassbender Bond Beautifully in Smartly Scripted Spy Whodunit
ReviewJim SlotekSpy films, Dialogue driven thrillers, Black Bag, Director Steven Soderbergh, Scriptwriter David Koepp, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, Slow Horses, Pierce Brosnan
Can I Get a Witness?: 50 Is The New Life Expectancy
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekCan I Get a Witness?, TIFF 24, Ann Marie Fleming, Sandra Oh, Joel Oulette, Keira Jang, Canadian, sci-fi, Drama, Dystopian stories
Opus: Deeply Dark Entertainment Media Satire is a Made-For-Malkovich Fun Ride
ReviewJim SlotekEntertainment media spoof, Opus, John Malkovich, Writer-director Mark Anthony Green, Pop superstar turned cult leader, Ayo Edebiri, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Chambers, Faux thriller
Novocaine: Too Painful to Watch, Too Funny to Miss
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie - Daffy and Porky Find Buddy-Comedy Mojo
ReviewJim SlotekLooney Tunes movies, The Day the Earth Blew Up, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, Eric Bauza, Mel Blanc, Alien invasion, Fred Tatasciore, Candi Milo, Laraine Newman, Wayne Knight
Boiling Point: An English Kitchen Drama with Social Bite
ReviewJim SlotekBoiling Point, BBC, TV series, Kitchen, Philip Barantini, Mounia Akl, Vinette Robinson, Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters, Ray Panthaki, Super Channel, British, Drama
The Rule of Jenny Pen: The Twilight Years Just Got Darker
Mickey 17: Twice the Robert Pattinsons, Twice the Madness in Bong Joon Ho's Latest
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekBong Joon Ho, Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson, Programmed replacement soldiers, Space sci-fi, Alien life forms, Mickey 7 novel by Ashton Edward, Ice planet, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie
The Silent Planet: Canadian Low-Budget Sci-Fi Goes the Distance
By Chris Knight
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This Time Next Year: Routine Rom-Com Prompts New Year’s Auld Lang Anxiety
Daredevil: Born Again - The Devils Finally Get Their Due
ReviewJim SlotekMarvel TV series, Daredevil: Born Again, Charlie Cox, The Kingpin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Classic comic hero/villain dichotomy, Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, Kamar de los Reyes, Jon Bernthal, White Tiger, Punisher
Superboys of Malegaon: A crowdpleaser about DIY cinema, Desi style
ReviewJim SlotekBollywood cinema spoof, Superboys of Malegaon, DIY Indian cinema, Toronto International Film Festival, Viral Deși films, Wedding photographer Nasir Sheikh, Adarsh Gourav, Shashank Arora, Vineet Kumar Singh, Personal and local filmmaking
Last Breath: Deeper Dive into Character Would Have Made Drama Stronger
My Dead Friend Zoe: PTSD Becomes a Literal Near-Death Experience in a Touching Tale
ReviewJim SlotekPTSD stories, Hallucinations of dead friends, My Dead Friend Zoe, Director/writer Kyle Haussman-Stokes, Sonequa Martin-Green, Star Trek: Discovery, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gloria Reuben, U.S. military in Afghanistan
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX – Beginning: Cool Robots, Too Bad About the Story
Grand Theft Hamlet: A Fascinating Mashup of 17th-Century Theatre, 21st-Century Gaming, and Pandemic Lockdown
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekGrand Theft Hamlet, Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, Mark Oosterveen, MUBI, Shakespeare, Video game, Animation, British, Documentary
Parthenope: Naples' Most Beguiling Woman Exists But for Males to Gaze Upon
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekThe male gaze, Italian movies, Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope, Celeste Dalla Porta, Paralyzingly beautiful female characters, Daniele Rienzo, Peppe Lanzetta, Silvio Orlando, John Cheever, Gary Oldman
