Blue Heron: Sophy Romvari’s Audacious Journey Down the Pathways of Memory
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy: This Tomb It’s Personal
ReviewJim SlotekLee Cronin’s The Mummy, Director of Evil Dead Rise, Egyptian demonic possession, Jack Reynor, Natalie Grace, Emily Mitchell, Dean Allen Williams, Veronica Falcón, Hayat Kamille, Body horror
Blue Mountain Film and Media Festival: Five and Fabulous
By Chris Knight
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PreviewJim SlotekBlue Mountain Film and Media Festival, Collingwood, Dancing on the Elephant, You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community that Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way), The Bruce Peninsula, The Northman Way: A Lacrosse Story, Sirât, Báite, A Life Illuminated, Tuner, Late Shift, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, The Art of Adventure, The Princess Bride, Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
Beef: Season 2 - Series' Second Act Offers Entwined Couples, Great Writing and A-list Cast
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekSeason anthology series, Beef: Season 2, Creator/writer/director Lee Sung Jin, Series set in luxury surroundings, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Entwined couples with agendas, Cailee Spaeny, Charles Melton, Youn Yuh Jung, Song Kang-ho
The Christophers: Soderberg’s Latest Finds Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen in Dark Art World Comedy
ReviewJim SlotekThe Christophers, TIFF '25, Steven Soderbergh, Ed Solomon, Michaela Coel, Ian McKellen, James Corden, Jessica Gunning, Black comedy, Art fraud, Art world, British
Lorne: A Painfully Reluctant Subject, And a Light-But-Not-Slight History of SNL
ReviewJim SlotekSaturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels documentary, Lorne, Director Morgan Neville, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Oral history of SNL, Robert Smigel animation, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, John Mulaney, Conan O'Brien, Chris Rock, 30 Rockefeller Centre, Studio 8H
Little Lorraine: NS Miners Face the Question, Is Trafficking Drugs to Feed Your Family Wrong?
ReviewJim SlotekLittle Lorraine, Mine disasters and closures in Cape Breton, Director Andy Hines, Sean Astin playing priest, Stephen Amell, Matt Walsh, Rhys Darby, Stephen McHattie, The nature of community, Drug trafficking by unemployed miners
Original-Cin Chat: Pioneering Trek Prop-Master Emily Hyde on Strange New Worlds' Objets d'Art
InterviewJim SlotekStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Prop-Master, Emily Hyde, Gorn board game, The chimera flower, Akiva Goldsman, Prop-creation process, Melissa Navia, Ethan Peck, First female Prop-Master in Star Trek history
Cannes Festival Lineup: More Films by Women, None by AI and Beaucoup D'Auteurs
By Carol J. Bream
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PreviewJim SlotekCannes Film Festival 2026 films, Festival president Iris Knobloch, Pedro Almodóvar Bitter Christmas, Asghar Farhadi Parallel Tales, Ryusuke Hamaguchi All of a Sudden, Histoires de la nuit Léa Mysius, John Travolta's directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, Daniel Auteuil’s La troisième nuit, Park Chan-wook
Original-Cin Chat: Little Lorraine's Sean Astin on Why He's a Professional Good Guy
Exit 8: Your Transit Woes Have Nothing on This Bedevilled Commuter
By Chris Knight
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You, Me & Tuscany: Halle Bailey Is a Tuscan Raider in This Predictably Charming Rom-com
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekYou, Me & Tuscany, Kat Coiro, Halle Bailey, Rége-Jean Page, Lorenzo de Moor, rom-com, Italy, Set in Italy, Romance, Comedy
Big Mistakes: Dan Levy's New Dark Comedy is a Spot-On Series of Wrong Moves
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDan Levy, Netflix, Co-creator Rachel Sennott, Dysfunctional family comedy, Comic crime characters, Taylor Ortega, Laurie Metcalf, Abby Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Netflix series
The Art of Adventure: Travelling Around an Unexplored World Circa 1957
By Chris Knight
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The Boys' Final Season: Scorched Earth and the Only Good Supe is a Dead Supe
ReviewJim SlotekThe Boys final season, Superpowers corrupting absolutely, Homelander, Antony Starr, Vought Corporation, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Tomer Capone, Erin Moriarty, Blurred lines between good and evil, Comic books turned series, Producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Metaphors for modern politics
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord: The Next Act of a Villain We Can't Hate
ReviewJim SlotekSith Lord Darth Maul, tar Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, Disney+, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Sam Witwer, Star Wars series, Producer Dave Filoni, Gideon Adlon, Wagner Moura, Dennis Haysbert, Chris Diamantopoulos
My Undesirable Friends: The Sad, Inspiring Story of The Suffocation of Russia’s Independent Press
Original-Cin Q&A: Amanda Peet and Matthew Shear on 'Fantasy Life' and Real Life
By Bonnie Laufer
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Fantasy Life: A Sort-of Romance About Nothing, Nothing But Eccentrics That Is
Silver Screamers: Horror Gig Takes Seniors From Care Home to Scare Home
ReviewJim SlotekSeniors making horror film, Silver Screamers, Director Sean Cisterna, Low budget horror, The Rug, Jayne Eastwood, Tony Nardi, Sonny Lauzon, Anthony Garramone, Audrey Cameron.
