Hot Docs Interview: The Day Iceland Stood Still's Producer and Director on a Game-Changing Women's Strike
Hot Docs Interview: Top Toronto Chef Revisits His Indian Street Kid Past in Born Hungry
InterviewJim SlotekAdopted Indian street kids, Hot Docs 24, Sash Simpson, Born Hungry, Upscale Toronto restaurants, Barry Avrich, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Foster parents, Sandra and Lloyd Simpson, North 44’s Mark McEwan, Lion, Shipra Khanna
Challengers: All’s Fair In 15-Love and War
By Chris Knight
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Boy Kills World: A Fun and Twisted Coming-of-Rage Story
ReviewJim SlotekBoy Kills World, TIFF '23, Moritz Mohr, Bill Skarsgård, Famke Janssen, Nicolas Crovetti, Cameron Crovetti, Quinn Copeland, Yayan Ruhian, sci-fi, Dystopian stories
Occupied City: Steve McQueen’s Original Take of Amsterdam Under the Nazis
Original-Cin Q&A: Humane Director Caitlin on Not Being Just Another Cronenberg
By Karen Gordon
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InterviewJim SlotekCaitlin Cronenberg, Humane, Ecological disaster, Deadly dysfunctional family, Writer Michael Sparaga, Peter Gallagher, Uni Park, Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Cronenberg clan horror tradition
I Don’t Know Who You Are: An Anxious, Empathetic Medical Odyssey
ReviewJim SlotekSexual assault aftermath, I Don’t Know Who You Are, Writer/filmmaker M.H.Murray, The Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica, Movies set in Toronto, Mark Clennon, Nat Patricia Manuel, Unreliable friends, Cinematographer Dmitry Lopatin
Hot Docs Made In Spain Program: Powerful, Topical Films from a Vibrant Nation
PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs '24, Docuementary, Festival, documentaries, The Click Trap, Made in Spain, Wild Gleaming Space, Flying Hands, My Sextortion Diary, Eyes of the Soul-Cristian García Rodero, Salt Covers All, Aitana, Back to Riaño, Aqueronte, Spanish language
Dead Boy Detectives: Spinoff (sort of) of Gaiman's Sandman Intros a New Supernatural Scooby Gang
ReviewJim SlotekNeil Gaiman, Comics turned into TV series, Dead Boy Detectives, DC Comics of Magic, The Sandman universe, Kirby Jean Baptiste, Teen ghost detectives, George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, Netflix
Hot Docs ’24: What to See at the Planet’s Biggest Documentary Film Festival, Pt. 2
By Original-Cin Staff
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PreviewJim SlotekDocumentaries, Film Festival, An Unfinished Journey, Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, Born Hungry, Curl Power, Death of a Saint, Fragments of a Life Loved, Nice Ladies, Okurimono, Power, So This Is Christmas, Streets Loud with Echoes, The Conquest of Space, The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine, Stories We Tell, Red Fever, Chasing Time, A, American Cats, Family Tree, Helen and the Bear
Hot Docs ’24: What to See at the Planet’s Biggest Documentary Film Festival, Pt. 1
By Original-Cin Staff
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PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 24, Docuementary, film festival, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity, Big Moves, Black Box Diaries, Daughter of Genghis, Grand Theft Hamlet, Lost in the Shuffle, Marching In the Dark, Me, Michael and I, Never Look Away, XIXI, Uncle Bardo, The Here Now Project, My Sextortion Diary, Ari's Theme
The Inventor: Stephen Fry Voices da Vinci in a Kid-Film About the Power of Questions
ReviewJim SlotekChildren's films about historical figures, Leonardo da Vinci, The Inventor, Stephen Fry, Cardinal De Medici, Pope Leo X, Matt Berry, Writer/co-director Jim Capobianco, Ratatouille, Rankin/Bass Christmas specials
Wings Over Water: Gorgeous Nature Doc is Perfect Family Fare for Earth Day
Sasquatch Sunset: Absurdist, Sad, Gross - That's the Way They Became the Bigfoot Bunch
By Karen Gordon
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Original-Cin Q&A: Sophie Nélisse on Playing a Holocaust Heroine in Irena's Vow
By Bonnie Laufer
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Abigail: Dracula’s Daughter Makeover is Bloody Good Fun
ReviewJim SlotekChild vampire movies, Abigail, Universal Classic Monsters, Dracula's Daughter remake, Alisha Weir, Radio Silence horror collective, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Melissa Barrera, Kathryn Newton, Dan Stevens, Kevin Durand
Irena’s Vow: A Glimpse of Heroic Holocaust History Even as History Repeats Itself
ReviewJim SlotekIrena’s Vow, TIFF 23, WWII, Nazis, Nazi era Poland, Louise Archambault, Dan Gordon, Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Maciej Nawrocki
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World: Seriously Funny, Timely Romanian Journey into Night
ReviewJim SlotekRomanian films, Do No Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Radu Jude, Social comedy and comment, Uber driver, Movies interacting with other movies, Black and white filming, Ilinca Manolache, Uwe Boll, 1981 film Angela Moves On, Lucian Bratu, Nina Hoss, Films about exploitative film production
The Beast: Brainy French Sci-Fi Romance Juggles Themes - Part Period Piece, Part Future Shock
By Karen Gordon
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Before I Change My Mind: A Non-Binary 80s High School Musical
ReviewJim SlotekCanadian feature debut, Canadian drama, Before I Change My Mind, Trevor Anderson, Fish Griwkowsky, Vaughn Murrae, Dominic Lippa, Lacey Oake, Matthew Rankin, Kirstin Johnston, Shannon Blanchet, coming of age, 1980s, Non-binary, Teenagers, Comedy
