Christy: Solid Acting by Sydney Sweeney, a Tired Genre and a Gut-Punch Finish
ReviewJim SlotekSports biopics, Female boxer Christy Martin, Christy movie, Sydney Sweeney, Movies with a domestic abuse theme, Ben Foster, Naomi Graham, Chad L. Coleman, Merritt Wever, Director David Michôd
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Fest: Planet-Wide Asian Tales, and Even One From Space
Review, PreviewJim SlotekToronto Reel Asian Film Festival, Feature films about Asian diaspora, Space Cadet, Montreal-based DJ Kid Koala, Toronto-born writer-director Timothy Yeung, Finch & Midland, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, Victor C.H. Fan, Montréal, ma belle, Joan Chen, Director Xiaodan He, Akashi, Director Mayumi Yoshida
Die My Love: Turns Out Postpartum Depression Is Really Not That Entertaining
ReviewJim SlotekDie My Love, Lynne Ramsay, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, LaKeith Stanfield, Drama, Themes of depression, Postpartum depression, Cannes
Stitch Head: A Franken-Toon about loving your inner monster
Nouvelle Vague: Linklater’s charming, if light, homage to Godard’s Breathless
ReviewJim SlotekHomages to classic filmmakers, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean Paul Belmondo, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer
Sunfish: Closely Observed Characters Make for an Engaging Film
ReviewJim SlotekSunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), Sierra Falconer, Maren Heary, Karsen Liotta, Jim Kaplan, Tenley Kellogg, Emily Hall, Coming of age stories, Drama, Summertime
Anniversary: Nothing to Celebrate Here, Folks
By Chris Knight
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Star Wars: Visions, Volume Three - Not so much Star Wars as Star Wars-flavoured Anime
ReviewJim SlotekAnimated Star Wars series, Anime, Star Wars: Visions, Volume Three, Director Takanobu Mizuno, Director Masahiko Ôtsuka, Emma Myers, Tanner Buchanan, Judith Light, George Takei, Simu Liu, Harvey Guillén
It Was Just an Accident: A Profound Movie Asking Big Questions About Morality
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekIt Was Just an Accident, TIFF '25, Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasseri, Ebrahim Azizi, Marian Afshari, Ali Elyasmher, Majid Panahi, Hadis Pakbaten, Iranian film, Palme d’Or at Cannes
Blue Moon: More Bothered Than Bewitched
ReviewJim SlotekBlue Moon, TIFF '25, Richard Linklater, Robert Kaplow, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Drama, Rodgers and Hart
Chat: Linklater, Hawke, Cannavale and Scott on Blue Moon and the Heartbreak of Lorenz Hart
InterviewJim SlotekBlue Moon, TIFF '25, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, True Story, Rodgers and Hart, Broadway
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost - Ben Stiller Revives By Memory the Life of his Legendary Parents
ReviewJim SlotekStars documenting famous parents, Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, Ben Stiller, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, Amy Stiller, The Ed Sullivan Show, Famous comedy families, Quin Stiller, Christine Taylor Stiller
Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc: Go With an Anime Otaku to 'Splain Things For You
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Examines the Struggles Behind the Stardom
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekSpringsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Bruce Springsteen, Scott Cooper, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young, Stephen Graham, Gaby Hoffman, Paul Walter Hauser, Matthew Anthony Pellicano, Jr.
Bugonia: Is the Real World Getting Too Weird for Yorgos Lanthimos to Stand Out?
ReviewJim SlotekYorgos Lanthimos, Weirdness, Bugonia, Conspiracy nuts, CEO-as-invading-alien, Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone, Aidan Delbis, Captor/captive movies, Andromeda, Celebrity billionaires
Original-Cin Talk: Alan Zweig on Suicide and His Film Love, Harold, at Rendezvous With Madness
Interview, PreviewJim SlotekSuicide stigma, Effects of suicide on loved ones, Documentarian Alan Zweig, Love, Harold, Rendezvous with Madness film festival, #skoden, Damien Eagle Bear, The Secret of Me, Shuffle
Who Killed the Montreal Expos?: Turns Out It Was A Team Effort
ReviewJim SlotekSports documentaries, The relationship between fans and franchises, Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, Jean-Francois Poisson, Netflix, Felipe Alou, Dennis Martínez, Larry Walker, Vladimir Guerrero Sr., Claude Brochu, Jeffrey Loria, Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard
The Mastermind: Kelly Reichardt’s 70s-Era Heist Drama a Study in Subtle Storytelling
By Karen Gordon
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This Too Shall Pass: John Hughes-Infused Nostalgia Road-Trip is a Gen X Treat
Black Phone 2: Dialing the Supernatural, Hanging Up on the Human Touch
