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Hot Docs Turns 30: We've Seen 'Em, Read 'Em While They're Hot!

Hot Docs Turns 30: We've Seen 'Em, Read 'Em While They're Hot!

By Original-Cin Staff

National Canadian Film Day: How to Watch, From Screen to Shining Screen

National Canadian Film Day: How to Watch, From Screen to Shining Screen

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekApril 18, 2023National Canadian Film Day, Reel Canada, Strange Brew, Fubar, The Saddest Music in the World, Hockey movies, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, Gordon Pinsent, Jeff Barnaby, Blood QuantumComment

Canadian Film Fest: Diversity Abounds Amid Lots and Lots (and Lots) to See

Canadian Film Fest: Diversity Abounds Amid Lots and Lots (and Lots) to See

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekMarch 28, 2023The Canadian Film Fest, Babysitter, Streams Flow from a River, When Time Got Louder, Bystanders, How To Get My Parents to Divorce, Golden Delicious, Retrograde, Polarized, Super Channel, Wintertide, Bloom (Jouvencelles)Comment

The Colour of Ink: Blots, Scribbles, and Ink-Stained Happiness

The Colour of Ink: Blots, Scribbles, and Ink-Stained Happiness

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekMarch 23, 2023The Colour of Ink, Brian D. Johnson, Documentary, NFB, National Film Board of Canada, Jason Logan, Canadian, Margaret Atwood, Nicholas de PencierComment

Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival: Baichwal and de Pencier Curate the World's Woes

Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival: Baichwal and de Pencier Curate the World's Woes

By Jim Slotek and Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewJim SlotekMarch 7, 2023Human Rights Canada Film Festival, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for FreedomFreedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, The Grab, Koromousso, Big Sister, No U-Turn, Uyra: The Rising ForestComment

The Toronto Black Film Festival: Films of Home and Away

The Toronto Black Film Festival: Films of Home and Away

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekFebruary 15, 2023Black History Month, Toronto Black Film Festival, Jennifer Holness, Film festivals virtual and in-person, Lovely Jackson, Aisha, Carajita, The Sharpeville massacre, Colin Kaepernick, Mahalia JacksonComment

Blood in the Snow Film Fest: 'Grade-Eh Horror' on the Big and Small Screens

Blood in the Snow Film Fest: 'Grade-Eh Horror' on the Big and Small Screens

By Thom Ernst

PreviewJim SlotekNovember 21, 2022Blood in the Snow Film Fest, BITS, Kelly Michael Stewart, In-person and virtual hybrid film festivals, Super Channel, Isabel Bader theatre, Influencer, L’Inhumain, Polaris, Curse of Aurore, Follow Her, The Devil Comes at NightComment

Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: Ingrid Veninger on the Beauty of Brevity and Filming with Family

Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: Ingrid Veninger on the Beauty of Brevity and Filming with Family

By Jim Slotek

Interview, PreviewJim SlotekNovember 17, 2022Short film showcases, Shorts Not Pants Film Festival, Ingrid Veninger, Jacob Switzer, Hannah Bussiere, If You Were MeComment

Cinefranco at 25: French cinema for the rest of us

Cinefranco at 25: French cinema for the rest of us

By Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewJim SlotekNovember 3, 2022Cinefranco Film Festiva, Toronto film festivals, En Roue Libre (Freestyle), Mes Tres Cher Enfants (Price of Parenting), L’homme parfait (The Perfect Man), La Pièce rapportée (The Unsophisticated Lady), Claude Lelouch documentary, Maigret, Gérard DepardieuComment

Rendezvous With Madness: Festival Marks Its 30th In the Year of Collective Mental Crisis

Rendezvous With Madness: Festival Marks Its 30th In the Year of Collective Mental Crisis

By Liam Lacey

Toronto After Dark Film Festival: Geeking Out With the City's Most Dedicated Genre Fans

Toronto After Dark Film Festival: Geeking Out With the City's Most Dedicated Genre Fans

By Thom Ernst

PreviewJim SlotekOctober 20, 2022Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Genre films, Adam Lopez, Scotia Theatre Toronto, Prey for the Devil, Daniel Stamm, Jacqueline Byers, H4Z4RDComment

ImagineNATIVE Film Fest Turns 23 With Mysticism, Mascot-Busting and Makeshift Families

ImagineNATIVE Film Fest Turns 23 With Mysticism, Mascot-Busting and Makeshift Families

By Jim Slotek

Review, PreviewJim SlotekOctober 17, 2022The ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Darlene Naponse, Indigenous films and filmmakers, Shelley Niro, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Braeden Clarke, Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting, Aviva Kempner and Cheyenne filmmaker Ben West, Rosie, Gail Maurice, Keris Hope HillComment

Tales from the Gimli Hospital, And Other Canadian Films on the Road to 4K Recovery

Tales from the Gimli Hospital, And Other Canadian Films on the Road to 4K Recovery

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekOctober 2, 2022Canadian Cinema — Re-ignited, 4K remastering of Canadian classics, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Guy Maddin, Ron Mann’s Sphinx Pictures, P4W: Prison for Women, Hookers on Davie, West of Pluto (À l’ouest de Pluton), The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La moitié gauche du frigo), EncorePlusComment

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 8

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 8

By Original-Cin Staff

PreviewJim SlotekSeptember 16, 2022TIFF 2022, Special Presentations, TIFF Docs, Driving Madelaine, The Colour of Ink, Brother, Clement Virgo, Capsule reviews, Walk Up, The Gravity, Platform, V/H/S/99, Midnight Madness, Empire of Light, No BearsComment

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 7

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 7

By Original-Cin Staff

PreviewJim SlotekSeptember 15, 2022TIFF 2022, Capsule reviews, Autobiography, Contemporary World Cinema, So Much Tenderness, Bones of Crows, Women Talking, Sarah Polley, Sick, Midnight Madness, The Banshees of Inisherin, Special Presentations, Saint Omer, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian JohnsonComment

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 6

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 6

By Original-Cin Staff

PreviewJim SlotekSeptember 14, 2022TIFF 22, Capsule reviews, Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova, EO, Broker, Triangle of Sadness, Special Presentations, TIFF Docs, Contemporary World Cinema, One Fine Morning, All Quiet on the Western Front, Black Ice, Gala Presentations, The WonderComment

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 5

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 5

By Original-Cin Staff

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 4

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 4

By Original-Cin Staff

PreviewJim SlotekSeptember 12, 2022TIFF 22, Capsule reviews, 752 Is Not a Number, The Swearing Jar, Victim, We Are Still Here, Something You Said Last Night, A Jazzman's Blues, Living, Contemporary World Cinema, Discovery, My Policeman, The Eternal Daughter, Special PresentationsComment

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 3

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 3

By Original-Cin Staff

PreviewJim SlotekSeptember 11, 2022TIFF 22, Capsule reviews, Daughter of Rage, Until Branches Bend, Discovery, Contemporary World Cinema, Muru, R.M.N., Maya and the Wave, TIFF Docs, AshkalComment

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 2

TIFF ’22: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Round 2

By Original-Cin Staff

PreviewJim SlotekSeptember 10, 2022TIFF 22, Capsule reviews, Rosie, The Grab, Sisu, Midnight Madness, TIFF DocsComment