Original-Cin Q&A: Meadowlarks Director, Star on Unravelling a Fraught Indigenous Story
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekMeadowlarks, TIFF '25, Tasha Hubbard, Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice, Michelle Thrush, Indigenous storytelling, Drama, Canadian, Based on a true story
Hamnet: The Play's Ultimately the Thing, But Family, Love and Loss Make It Linger
ReviewJim SlotekScreen depictions of Shakespeare's family, Hamnet, Author Maggie O’Farrell, Chloé Zhao, Stories of the plague, Jessie Buckley), Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Jacobi Jupe, Cinematographer Lukasz Zal, Awards season movies
Sisu: Road to Revenge — Because Apparently the First One Wasn’t Wild Enough
Blossoms Shanghai: Wong Kar-wai's 30-Episode Love Letter to the Robust City of his Birth
ReviewJim SlotekWong Kar-Wai, Film directors taking on TV series, Blossoms Shanghai, Jin Yucheng, Mao Dun literary Prize, '90s Shanghai as a moneymaking Wild West, Ge Hu, Zhilei Xin, Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, The Sun Rises on Us All, Yan Tang, Yili Ma
Rental Family: Brendan Fraser Anchors a Tale of Actors in Japan Whose Roles Offer Real-Life Help
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekAmerican actors in Japan, Real life actors-as-therapists industry, Rental Family, Co-writer/director Hikari, Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Bun Kimura, Shannon Gorman, Akira Emoto
Wicked For Good: If You Fell Under Wicked’s Spell, This One’s Worth the Wait
By Chris Knight
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Jay Kelly: High-Wattage Cast Unserved by Director Noah Baumbach’s Wobbly Satire
ReviewJim SlotekJay Kelly, Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Jim Broadbent, Riley Keough, Netflix, Drama, Comedy, Dramedy
The Beast in Me: Ace Casting Propels New Netflix Cat-and-Mouse Thriller
By Karen Gordon
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The Running Man: A Good Run, But Not Wright’s Fastest
ReviewJim SlotekRe-imagining The Running Man, Director Edgar Wright, The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen King, Michael Cera, Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, Josh Brolin, William H. Macy, Martin Herlihy, Sean Hayes
Original-Cin Q&A: Edgar Wright on 'Reimagining' Stephen King's The Running Man
Sentimental Value: Joachim Trier Unearths Buried Emotions in a Drama-Oriented Clan
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekStories about stage families, Buried emotions, Suicide, Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value, Writer Eskil Vogt, The Worst Person In The World, Cannes Film Festival, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning
The Guelph Film Festival: The One You Shouldn’t Miss (But Probably Have)
Original-Cin Q&A: Sentimental Value’s Starry Cast Discusses their Acclaimed Drama
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekSentimental Value, Cannes, TIFF '25, Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Drama, Family drama
After All: Three Generations of Women Learn to Forgive in Family Drama
Windsor International Film Fest: Sometimes an Oscar Predictor, Sometimes Just a Good Time
By Chris Knight
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekFilm festivals as award season bellwethers, Windsor International Film Festival, Anora, Tuner, Danish doc Take the Money and Run, ark Chan-wook's No Other Choice, Two Women, The Cost of Heaven, Montreal, My Beautiful, Mr. Goalie
Measures for a Funeral: Story of a Lost Concerto Goes Far Beyond the Music
By Chris Knight
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Pluribus: Vince Gilligan’s latest, one angry woman’s fight against a world that’s 'Breaking Glad'
ReviewJim SlotekAI takeover stories, Pluribus, Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad, Rhea Seehorn, Miriam Shor, Enforced happiness, Karolina Wydra, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Samba Schutte
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk: Seeking Life Amid Gaza’s Ruins
Nuremberg: The Film Itself is a Bit of a Trial
ReviewJim SlotekNuremberg, Hermann Göring psychoanalyzed, Dr. Douglas Kelley, 2013 non-fiction book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Director co-writer James Vanderbilt, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Colin Hanks
Train Dreams is a Luminous, Humanist Story of a Life Led a Century Ago
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekPeriod piece life story, Train Dreams, Based on the novel of the same name, Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, William H. Macy, Director Clint Bentley, Jockey, Sing Sing, Clifton Collins Jr., Kerry Condon
