Will Sloan

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

I am going to ask for your kind indulgence as I take a little of your time to discuss The Cinema Snob Movie (2012). I understand that this is beneath both you and me. The Cinema Snob Movie is the vanity project of a minor YouTube personality, produced on a nonexistent budget with an all-amateur cast and crew, and which was self-distributed on the internet and DVD. Today it is accessible only on archive.org, its official purchase links having long ago been scrubbed by its makers.

1 week ago | torontotoday.ca | Will Sloan

Has the front page of Netflix got you feeling blah? Looking for a more adventurous cinematic experience? In RepWatch, film critic and podcaster Will Sloan talks to programmers who bring their personal stamps to Toronto’s thriving repertory cinemas. __As so much of film culture has migrated to streaming, movie theatres have been in an existential crossroads. Why leave the house to see a movie that’s right there on your TV? Why buy a ticket to see the same digital file in public?

2 weeks ago | torontotoday.ca | Will Sloan

Has the front page of Netflix got you feeling blah? Looking for a more adventurous cinematic experience? In RepWatch, film critic and podcaster Will Sloan talks to programmers who bring their personal stamps to Toronto’s thriving repertory cinemas. __As so much of film culture has migrated to streaming, movie theatres have been in an existential crossroads. Why leave the house to see a movie that’s right there on your TV? Why buy a ticket to see the same digital file in public?

3 weeks ago | theglobeandmail.com | Will Sloan

1 month 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.