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.

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

Take me to Rockefeller Center! I’m going to go do Saturday Night Live, a new show on NBC.” “TV at night? That’ll never work!” “Fuck you, you fucking dumb cabbie. It’ll be so famous and good at sketch comedy.

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,

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

"Saturday Night Live" viewers and media expert Bob Thompson weigh in on the variety show's legacy and impact on the TV landscape as Season 50 approaches.