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Jason Reitman

September 2024

  • Writers, actors, and comedians gather in the dressing room of a television set in the 70s

    First look review
    Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire

    Toronto film festival: Jason Reitman’s 70s-set comedy detailing the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live is a dull and self-indulgent mess

March 2024

  • Annie Potts Press publicity portrait supplied by PR

    ‘I’m still trying to recover’: Annie Potts on Ghostbusters, Toy Story – and the car crash that almost killed her

    She has played Janine in Ghostbusters since the franchise started, not to mention her star turn as Bo Peep. But, as Potts says, her life and career were almost over before they had really begun

February 2022

  • 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' film premiere, New York, USA - 15 Nov 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Erik Pendzich/REX/Shutterstock (12603995dl) Ivan Reitman 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' film premiere, New York, USA - 15 Nov 2021

    Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters director and Animal House producer, dies at 75

    The film-maker behind bawdy comedy hits including Twins, Stripes and Kindergarten Cop, died at his home in California on Saturday

November 2021

  • Ivan and Jason Reitman in Ecto-1, the Ghostmobile.

    Who ya gonna call? Ivan and Jason Reitman on resurrecting Ghostbusters together

  • Obtuse … Logan Kim, left, and Mckenna Grace in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

    Ghostbusters: Afterlife review – defanged retread that is lacking in spirit and laughs

October 2021

  • Paul Rudd in Ghostbusters: Afterlife

    First look review
    Ghostbusters: Afterlife review – a slimy, stinking corpse of a sequel

    Jason Reitman takes over his father’s franchise and immediately tanks it with a tonally misjudged blend of fan service and bizarrely played-straight spectacle

January 2019

  • First team … Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd in 1984’s Ghostbusters.

    Who ya gonna call? Ivan Reitman sends son Jason to direct Ghostbusters 3

    Up in the Air film-maker to take charge of ‘secret’ sequel to father’s original comedies, unconnected to Paul Feig’s contentious 2016 female reboot
  • Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart in The Front Runner.

    The Front Runner review – sharp US election bio-drama

    Jason Reitman’s thrilling take on senator Gary Hart’s fall from grace in 1988 shines a powerful light on US politics
  • 2018, THE FRONT RUNNER<br>HUGH JACKMAN Character(s): Gary Hart Film 'THE FRONT RUNNER' (2018) Directed By JASON REITMAN 31 August 2018 SAY96704 Allstar/SONY PICTURES RELEASING **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of SONY PICTURES RELEASING and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To SONY PICTURES RELEASING is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    The Front Runner review – evasive account of Gary Hart's downfall

    Hugh Jackman stars as the US Democrat whose presidential ambitions were scuppered by allegations of misbehaviour on board the Monkey Business

September 2018

  • Hugh Jackman in The Front Runner (2018) Film still from TIFF

    First look review
    The Front Runner review – Hugh Jackman makes headlines in nuanced drama

    Starring as disgraced US senator Gary Hart, the Oscar nominee delivers a thoughtful performance in a film about morality in both politics and the newsroom

May 2018

  • 22342_07_R<br>This image released by Focus Features shows Charlize Theron in a scene from “Tully.” (Focus Features via AP)

    Tully review – perceptive take on the woes of motherhood

    Jason Reitman and Charlize Theron are bang on form in this bleakly funny tale about a mum and her new night nanny
  • 'Tully' film premiere, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 18 Apr 2018<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (9636169n) Diablo Cody 'Tully' film premiere, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 18 Apr 2018

    'There's this idea that mothers are completely selfless': Diablo Cody on Tully – and the Juno backlash

    The Oscar-winning writer’s new film is about an exhausted mother slowly unravelling. She talks about the impact of motherhood, facing middle-age – and what she’d now change about Juno
  • 2018, TULLY<br>MACKENZIE DAVIS & CHARLIZE THERON Character(s): Tully, Marlo Film 'TULLY' (2018) Directed By JASON REITMAN 23 January 2018 SAW88645 Allstar/BRON STUDIOS **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of BRON STUDIOS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To BRON STUDIOS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Tully review – Charlize Theron pregnancy drama doesn’t quite deliver

    Diablo Cody’s story of a mother and her night nanny is sharply written with some fine edge-of-the-seat moments but is let down by an exasperating ending

January 2018

  • Charlize Theron in Tully

    Tully review – Juno creators rekindle old magic in Charlize Theron pregnancy comedy

    Jason Reitman reteams with screenwriter Diablo Cody for a marvellous movie about a struggling mother saved by a millennial Mary Poppins

August 2017

  • Directors’ feuds composite: Spike Lee, Lans von Trier and Clint Eastwood

    Hollywood at war: when film-makers feud with each other

    James Cameron and Patty Jenkins disagreeing over Wonder Woman’s grasp of feminism is not the first and won’t be the last example of directors falling out

May 2016

  • Uma Thurman, Olivia Wilde, Rose Byrne, Michael Sheen and Salman Rushdie in Hannah and her Sisters at the TimesCenter, New York.

    Hannah and Her Sisters Live Read review – Olivia Wilde leads confident staging

    Michael Sheen and Uma Thurman offer standout performances in Woody Allen masterpiece – but resurfaced allegations against director are discomfiting

April 2016

  • Young mother ... Charlize Theron is to work with the Young Adult team again for a film about parenting.

    Charlize Theron, Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody reunite for parenting movie

    The creative team responsible for the 2011 dark comedy Young Adult are working on a new film about parenting

September 2015

  • Casual

    TV and radio blog
    Casual review - Jason Reitman's foray into television juggles funny with the familiar

  • Brides to be ... Gage Munroe, Chris O'Dowd, Rob Reiner, Patrick Stewart, Rachel McAdams, Carry Elwes, George Laraque, Donald Glover, and director Jason Reitman attend Jason Reitman's Live Read during this year's Toronto International Film Festival

    As Reitman wishes ... Rachel McAdams and Patrick Stewart head up cast of Princess Bride live read

July 2015

  • Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Fassbender at the Live Read.

    Film blog
    Michael Fassbender really ties the Big Lebowski live read together

    The actor was smokin – literally – at this Montreal original script read of the Coen brothers’ comedy, with support from Jennifer Lawrence and Patton Oswalt
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