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.
The Drama: When Pre-Wedding Jitters Shoot Sky High
The Blue Trail: Age Is Way More Than Just a Number
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Blue Trail, Brazilian, TIFF '25, Gabriel Mascaro, Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras, Dystopian fiction, sci-fi, Aging
Palestine ’36: An Epic about the Revolt that Preceded the War
ReviewJim SlotekPalestine ’36, Annemarie Jacir, Karim Daoud Anaya, Billy Howle, Jeremy Irons, Hiam Abbass, Liam Cunningham, Yasmine Al Massri, Palestinian occupation, Palestinian filmmaker, Period piece
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice: Vince Vaughn Does Vince Vaughn in Fun Multi-genre Mashup
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Disney+, Mashup, Gangster, rom-com, Comedy, Sci fi, BenDavid Grabinski, Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza González, Ben Schwartz, Jimmy Tatro, Keith David
Love, Harold: NFB Doc Explores a Wide Array of Emotional Aftermaths of Suicide
The AI Doc: Is There an AI Doc In the House? Yes, There Is!
By Chris Knight
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Two Prosecutors: A Whistleblower Takes on Stalin’s State Machine
ReviewJim SlotekTwo Prosecutors, Russian, Drama, 1930s, Sergei Loznitsa, Georgy Demidov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs, Vytautas Kaniušonis
A Magnificent Life: Animated Take on French Film Giant Marcel Pagnol Loses Something in Translation
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekA Magnificent Life, Animation, French, Sylvain Chomet, Flora Montgomery, Jess Nesling, Celyn Jones, Jonathan Keeble, Lu Corfield, Matthew Gravelle
