About Original Cin
Jim Slotek
Jim Slotek is a former Toronto Sun columnist, movie critic, TV critic and comedy beat reporter. He’s been a scriptwriter for the NHL Awards, Gemini Awards and documentaries, and was nominated for a Gemini Award for comedy writing on a special (the NHL Awards). His work can also be read in Zoomer magazine.
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey is a former film critic for The Globe and Mail, as well as contributor to various other media outlets over the past 37 years.. He recently returned to Canada from Spain because he forgot about the weather.
Chris Knight
Chris Knight is a writer, editor and (still!) sometimes film critic with The National Post in Toronto. He has covered film for more than 20 years, and attended festivals in Toronto, Cannes, Park City, Kingston and the Yukon. His favourite movies are Duck Soup and Blade Runner, though he’s never watched them back to back.
Karen Gordon
Karen Gordon is a freelance writer/broadcaster. She has covered music and popular culture for 20 years in radio, TV and print. She's also a creative producer, series story editor and writer for documentary/lifestyle TV and is the co-writer of two award-winning cookbooks, David Rocco’s Dolce Vita and Made in Italy. Karen still gets a thrill when the lights go down and the movie begins.
Bonnie Laufer
Bonnie is a 25-year broadcast entertainment reporter currently on CH Morning Live and on her YouTube channel. She's heard weekly on Sirius XM as on the Ward & Al Show. She's interviewed more than 20,000 celebs, including Angelina Jolie, Barbra Streisand, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey.
Kim Hughes
An entertainment/lifestyle writer and editor of an exquisite vintage, Kim has written about film, music, books, food, wine and cosmetics The Toronto Star, Zoomer, NOW Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Amazon.com, hmv, Salon, Elevate, CBC and multiple other marquee properties. She lives in Toronto and is a proud volunteer with Annex Cat Rescue.
John Kirk
John moderates celebrity panels at FAN EXPO CANADA, Canada's largest comic convention. He has a passion for all things geek. Comics, Star Trek, Star Wars... writing about it on sites like denofgeek.com, forcesofgeek.com, popmythology.com and Trekcore.com. John also writes scholarly articles on comics for BACK ISSUE mag and has contributed to STAR WARS INSIDER.
Liz Braun
Liz has contributed entertainment stories in print (for the Sun newspaper chain) and on radio and TV in Canada for 30 years.
Under a nom de plume she is the author of five best-selling novels and in her spare time continues to be alternate principal bassoonist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Unfortunately, most of this is made up.
Thom Ernst
Thom is a longtime broadcaster and film critic living in Toronto and is formerly the producer and host of TVOntario’s Saturday Night at the Movies. Thom can be heard weekly on This Movie’s About You, available on iTunes and on JAZZ-FM 91.