This is a movie that so badly wants to be as cool as its source material that it trips over itself into something so old-fashioned and dully familiar that no amount of retro sheen can boost its cool b

Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night from Jason Reitman debuted at $265k, a great $53k per theater that’s the second-best limited opening of the year, and the best since June when Kinds Of Kindness also opened in 5 theaters (to a $75k PTA). It’s been a long a slightly dower wait for something to pop.

With “Saturday Night,” director Jason Reitman deftly captures the magic and madness that went into creating the first episode of the beloved and long-running late-night series, “ Saturday Night Live ” — which kicks off its 50th season on Sept. 28.

With his new movie Saturday Night, co-writer/director Jason Reitman — whose films range from the superb coming-of-age comedy Juno and the provocative mid-life dramedy Tully to the the horrid reboot Ghostbusters: Afterlife — wants you to remember back when SNL was a scrappy sketch show stocked with counterculture comedians,

Whether it is busting ghosts or assembling some of the best comedians/actors to play television’s collective of some of the greatest comedians/actors, Jason Reitman has been in charge of both. Canadian-American filmmaker Reitman most recently created a new generation of Ghostbusters films with Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire—acting as direct sequels to the original two films his father,

Film Review, a movie directed by Jason Reitman, written by Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman and starring Gabriel LaBelle