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Will Sloan

Toronto

Journalist at Freelance

Co-Host at Michael and Us

Modern-day folk hero. Once met Dolph Lundgren. World-famous for @ImprtCinemaClub and @MichaelandUs. [email protected]

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  • Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal returns, with too much of a good thing

    4 days ago | theglobeandmail.com | Will Sloan

  • Smorgasbord

    1 week ago | screenslate.com | Will Sloan

    When Jerry Lewis returned to movie screens after a decade-long absence with Hardly Working (1980), he opened the film with a rapid-fire montage of highlights from his ‘50s and ‘60s comedies. These clips showed a young, impossibly energetic dynamo backed with all the resources of the Hollywood Dream Factory. Clearly intended to re-establish Lewis’s pedigree, the montage couldn’t help but render Hardly Working an accidental meditation on its star’s diminished status.

  • The Making of "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA"

    2 weeks ago | willsloan.substack.com | Will Sloan

    My book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA is now available for pre-order from its publisher, OR Books. I hope you will consider purchasing it. If you are at all curious about the director of Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from Outer Space, I hope to offer a lens through which to better appreciate him. If you are already well-versed in his classics, I am excited to introduce you to the full scope of his career.

  • Ed Wood

    2 weeks ago | orbooks.com | Will Sloan

    sub-heading: Made in Hollywood USA —Guy Maddin —Drew Friedman —Willow Maclay —Bob Blackburn, editor of Blood Splatters Quickly: The Collected Stories of Edward D.

  • A King in New York (1957)

    3 weeks ago | willsloan.substack.com | Will Sloan

    Early in Donald Trump’s first term, I felt compelled to revisit Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940), as I recall there being something of a vogue for it in left-of-centre cinephile circles. Perhaps we were all looking for past examples of right-wing rulers being defused by humour.

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Will Sloan
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23 Apr 25

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Will Sloan
Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq
23 Apr 25

Charlie Chaplin, stinging from the negative critical reception that greeted A Countess from Hong Kong, assesses contemporary cinema circa 1967 https://t.co/3a54ixnhEz

Will Sloan
Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq
22 Apr 25

RT @eyuplovely: Keir Starmer is willing to kill an unlimited amount of children if it means gaining so much as one vote from a section of t…