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.

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

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,

When I first heard about the premise of Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night” — the entire film takes place in the 90 minutes leading up to the late-night comedy landmark’s first episode in 1975 — I confess that I found the idea to be a head-scratcher.

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