Mother Mary: David Lowery Takes on Metaphysics, Women, Stardom and the Supernatural
By Karen Gordon
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Fuze: Twisty, Fast-moving Heist Film Delivers Mad Skills and Real Thrills
ReviewJim SlotekFuze, TIFF '25, David Mackenzie, Theo James, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sam Worthington, Heist movies, Heist films, British, Action
I Swear: Fascinating Subject Gets the Heartfelt Treatment
ReviewJim SlotekI Swear, TIFF '25, Biopic, Kirk Jones, Robert Aramayo, Shirley Henderson, Maxine Peake, British, BAFTA, Tourettes
Original-Cin @ Hot Docs: Maya Annik Bedward on Black Zombie and Demonizing Vodou
Hot Docs 2026: Documentary Festival Offers 115 Reasons to Cheer, Pt. 2
By Original-Cin Staff
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PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Hot Docs 2026, Birds of War, Black Zombie, Concrete Turns to Sand, Ceremony, The Delivery Line: Midwives on the Frontlines, Ghost in the Machine, INDIVISUM: Legacies Adrift, Love Apptually, Let Our Mountains Live, Myspace, This Above All: The Theatrical Life of Antoni Cimolino, Replica, The Tower That Built a City, 0004NGEL, Virtual Girlfriends, It's Dorothy, Better Go Mad in the Wild
Original-Cin Q&A: Kenny Loggins Doc Director Dori Berinstein on Profiling an Icon
By Bonnie Laufer
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Michael: The Movie Moonwalks Nicely, But Steps Carefully Around, Um, Other Stuff
ReviewJim SlotekPop star biopics, Michael Jackson, Director Antoine Fuqua, Airbrushing scandals in biopics, Colman Domingo, Juliano Valdi, Barry Gordy, Larenz Tate, Miles Teller, Don King, Mike Myers, Walter Yetnikoff
Original-Cin Q&A: Hot Docs Programmer/Filmmaker Aisha Jamal on Stolen Afghan Art
InterviewJim SlotekMuseums and stolen art, Cultural losses under the Taliban, Afghanistan, Programmer filmmaker Aisha Jamal, Documentary The Theft, National Museum of Kabul, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, TVO Docs, London Afghani plane hijacking, The effect of war on cultural history
Hot Docs 2026: Documentary Festival Offers 115 Reasons to Cheer, Pt. 1
By Original-Cin Staff
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PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Hot Docs 2026, Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, A Wolf in the Suburbs, The 49th Year, Gimme Truth, Constant Battles, Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart, Nekai Walks, Maintenance Artist, On My Own Terms, #WhileBlack, Tla’amin Namesake, Kindergarten, Oh Whale, The Sandbox, A War on Women
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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