The Windsor International Film Festival: Elbows Up, and Please Turn Off Your Phones
PreviewJim SlotekWindsor International Film Festival, WIFF chief programmer Vincent Georgie, American patronage of Canadian event, I Play Rocky, The Ann Arbor Blues Festival in Exile, Paper Tiger, Festivals showing award season films, Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney, Julian, Run Terry Run, Nina Roza, The Debut, Fjord, La Bola Negra, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, As Far As I Can Remember… The Story of Goodfellas
Original-Cin Q&A: Anna Lambe on North of North’s Gift of Indigenous Visibility
By Bonnie Laufer
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York: It’ll Steal Your Heart If You Let It
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Noah Segan, TIFF '26, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Victoria Moroles, Drama, New York
Rest in Peace Patrick Stewart: 1940–2026
Fatherland: Cannes Winner About Post-WWII Germany an Eerie Mirror of Today
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekFatherland, Drama, WWII, Germany, Pawel Pawlikowski, Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Based on a true story, Black and white
Kung Fu Soccer: Stephen Chow's 25th Anniversary Sequel is Missing its Hong Kong Spark
ReviewJim SlotekShaolin Soccer, Sequel Kung Fu Soccer, Women's international football, Movies set in China, Stephen Chow, Xiaofei Zhang, Dilraba Dilmurat, Carina Lau, Mo Lei Tau comedy style, Jimmy O. Yang, MC Jin
Original-Cin Q&A: Tatiana Maslany on Pickpockets, Performance and the John Turturro Experience
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Chat: How 'Below' Boss Jesse McKeown Found His Horror Heart in Newfoundland
InterviewJim SlotekNetflix horror series, Series set in Newfoundland, Below, Writer/showrunner Jesse McKeown, Snook's Arm, Josh Hartnett, Charlie Heaton, Horror films in seaside settings, H.P. Lovecraft, Jacques Tourneur, Mackenzie Davis, Underdog community fights to exist
Wicker: Olivia Colman and Alex Skarsgärd Get Twiggy With It in Medieval Feminist Comedy
La Bola Negra: Sprawling Epic from the Spanish Civil War Onward a Demanding Must-See
ReviewJim SlotekGenerational epics, La Bola Negra., Spanish Civil War, LGBT themes, Filmmaking duo, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, Milo Quifes, Cannes and TIFF favourites, Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Penélope Cruz
A Talent For Murder: A Fictionalized Patricia Highsmith Plays Mind-Games with a Young Publisher
Klara and the Sun: Taika Waititi's Whimsical Robot Movie Loses the Plot
By Karen Gordon
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Possible Love: A Cross-Class Friendship Implodes in Lee Chang-dong's masterpiece
ReviewJim SlotekTIFF International hits, Possible Love, South Korean director Lee Chang-dong, Burning, Poetry, A film about couples from different social classes, Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Seol, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong, Zo In-sung, Thou Shalt Not Covet
Clayface: A DC Comics Cult Villain Takes Shape in 'Body Horror' Cinematic Debut
Jim Queen: Raunchy French Animated Film Seeks a Queer Antidote to Heterosis
ReviewJim SlotekCannes "Midnight Section" films, Raunchy French animated film, Jim Queen, Co-directors Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané, Curing a disease that turns gays straight, Alex Ramirès, Jérémy Gillet, Elisabeth Wiener, Shirley Souagnon, François Sagat, Harald Marlot
Once Upon a Time in Harlem: The Harlem Renaissance Reunion Party is a Rare Doc Affair
ReviewJim SlotekOnce Upon a Time in Harlem, 1972 reunion of Harlem Renaissance figures, Documentarian William Greaves, Director David Greaves, Eubie Blake, Leigh Miller, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Zora Neal Hurston, Langston Hughes
Following Harry: Belafonte, Fighting the Good (non-violent) Fight to the End
ReviewJim SlotekHarry Belafonte, Following Harry, Superstar calypso singer, Life of social activism, Director Susanne Rostock, We Are the World, Martin Luther King, Chuck D, Jamie Foxx, Rosario Dawson, Angela Davis
You Can See Everything: Do Not Read This Review
Fjord: Cannes Prize-Winner of Parents-Under-Small-Village-Suspicion is a Filmic Rorschach Test
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekCannes Palme d'Or winners, Fjord, Writer/director Cristian Mungiu, Ambiguous presentation of religious animus, Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Evangelicals' abrasive relationship with Norwegian neighbours, Vanessa Ceban, Jonathan Ciprian Breazu, Henrikke Lund-Olsen, Lisa Carlehed, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald - Judd Apatow Takes a Scroll Through the Career of an Unleashed Comic Id
ReviewJim SlotekBiographies of late comics, Documentaries of late comics, Norm Macdonald, Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald, Director Judd Apatow, Comics pulling interviewers' legs, CBC's Neil Macdonald, Bob Saget, David Letterman, O.J. Simpson, Saturday Night Live alumni, NBC VP Don Ohlmeyer
