Toronto After Dark Film Fest Post-Mortem: Still Bonkers at Age 17
ViewsJim SlotekToronto After Dark Film Festival, Indie horror film festivals, It’s a Wonderful Knife, Founder/artistic director Adam Lope, Late Night with the Devil, The Last Exit, Joely Richardson, Canadian short horror films, Scott Riopelle’s Soul Proprietor, Daniel’s Gotta Die, Sweden UFO
TIFF 2023: Our Thrills, Yawns, and Suggestions for a Better Future Festival
By Original-Cin Staff
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ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 23, Dream Scenario, Hit Man, American Fiction, Dumb Money, The Zone of Interest, Perfect Days, Shame on Dry Land, Chuck Chuck Baby, The Teachers’ Lounge, Not a Word, Toll, The Royal Hotel, Limbo, La Chimera, Widow Clicquot, One Life, Sing Sing, Among Dry Grasses, Wildcat, Next Goal Wins, Ru, The Promised Land
Why Quieter Red Carpets Are Important at this Year's TIFF
By Karen Gordon
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A TIFF Life: Chris Knight Looks Back on 27 Years of Dark Rooms and Filmic Revelations
By Chris Knight
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Comic-Con's Labour Pains: How SAG/AFTRA Negotiators/Voice Actors Took the Spotlight
Interview, ViewsJim SlotekWGA/SAG-AFTRA, AI's effect on voice actors, San Diego Comic-Con, SAG/AFTRA Chief Negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Zeke Alton, Ashly Burch, Tim Friedlander, Synthesized voices or performances
Back to the Doll House: ‘Weird Barbie’ Has Always Been a Big Part of her Story
Oscars vs Razzies: The Thin Line Between Best and Worst Just Got Blurry
ViewsJim SlotekOscar nominations, The Razzies, Elvis, Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Sarah Polley, Domee Shi, The Banshees of Inisherin, Pinocchio, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ana de Armas, Blonde
Original-Cin Year In Review: 2021’s Best and Worst Movies
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Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekPig, Nicolas Cage, The Card Counter, Oscar Isaac, Above Suspicion, Emelia Clarke, I'm Your Man, TIFF 2021, Hot Docs 2021., Nope, Jordan Peele, The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Flee, The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Jane Campion, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Avatar 2, Dune, Denis Villeneuve, Halloween Kills, Agnes, The Black Phone, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Maria Chapdelaine, The Northman, Robert Eggers, Encanto, The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright, Olivia Wilde, Judas and the Black Messiah, Drive My Car, Black Conflux, Killers of the Flower Moon, Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth, tick tick BOOM!, Coda, Paul Schrader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington
Hot Docs 2021: Big, Bold Documentary Festival Is Just What our Weary World Needs Now
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Preview, ViewsJim SlotekHot Docs, Hot Docs 2021, Sieged: The Press vs. Denialism, Wuhan Wuhan, Viral, Help, I’ve Gone Viral!, Set!, The Taste of Desire, Man in the Field: The Life and Art of Jim Denevan, Come Back Anytime, Dead Man’s Switch a crypto mystery, The Caviar Connection, Gaucho Americano, A Black Jesus, The Last Shelter, Tanya Talaga’s Spirit to Soar, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, Fanny: The Right to Rock, The Sparks Brothers, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson, Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 7 Years of Lukas Graham, Preview, Roundup, Tanya Talaga
F.T.A.: Fonda and Sutherland's '72 anti-USO show holds up as companion piece to today's Vietnam film flashbacks
Review, ViewsJim SlotekF.T.A., Jane Fonda, Anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the army, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judas and the Black Messiah, Da Five Bloods, Donald Sutherland, Dalton Trumbo’s 1938 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun., Alan Myerson, The Committee, Holly Near, Rita Martinson, Pamela Donegan, Len Chandler, Francine Parker
Original-Cin Year In Review: 2020’s Best and Worst Movies
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Views, Review, PreviewJim SlotekBest of 2020, Worst of 2020, Nomadland, Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Martin Eden, Luca Marinell, Donbass, David Byrne’s American Utopia, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Bacurau, Lovers Rock, Mangrove, Steve McQueen, Minari, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman, Mank, David Fincher, The Kid Detective, Color Out Of Space, Rocks, Another Round, Hope Gap, Collective, Beanpole, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, Critic's Picks, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Personal History of David Copperfield
CRAVE CORNER: Yes Virginia, Bruce Willis really is Santa Claus
ViewsJim SlotekCrave TV, Die Hard, Die Hard is a Christmas movie, NYPD Detective John McClane, John McTiernan, Jan de Bont, Singin’ in the Rain, Ode to Joy, Steven E. de Souza, Jeb Stuart, De'voreaux White, Run-DMC, Christmas in Hollis, Roderick Thorp, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
CRAVE CORNER: Yes Virginia, Bruce Willis really IS Santa Claus
ViewsJim SlotekCrave TV, Die Hard, Die Hard is a Christmas movie, NYPD Detective John McClane, John McTiernan, Jan de Bont, Singin’ in the Rain, Ode to Joy, Steven E. de Souza, Jeb Stuart, De'voreaux White, Run-DMC, Christmas in Hollis, Roderick Thorp, Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Amadeus: The Director’s Cut Revisits Milos Forman’s Mozart Extravaganza. That’s All
Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekAmadeus, Mozart, Biopic, Milos Forman, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Director's Cut, Oscar winner, Drama, Twyla Tharp
Original-Cin 2020 Halloween Special: The Films That Most Freaked Us Out
By Original-Cin Staff
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Preview, ViewsJim SlotekHalloween, Jaws, Carrie, Wait Until Dark, Alien, Blair Witch Project, Die! Die! My Darling, Return of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, Dead Alive, Hereditary, It Follows, The Witch, Open Water, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Masks, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Poltergeist, The Ring, Scary movies
That’s A Wrap! The Best, Worst, and Weirdest at TIFF 2020
By Original-Cin Staff
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Views, Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNomadland, Chloe Zhao, Shiva, TIFF 2020, Limbo, One Night in Miami…, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, I Am Greta, Shadow In The Cloud, Quo Vadis, Concrete Cowboy, 76 Days, The Way I See It, Beans, Tracy Deer
Barry Levinson and Denzel Washington ‘In Conversation’ at TIFF: Hollywood titans trade tales and insights
Interview, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, In Coversation With, Denzel Washington, Barry Levinson, Rain Man, Diner, Fences, Antwone Fisher, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman
TIFF Tribute Awards Recap: Kinda Cool, Kinda Weird (But With Peeks into Star’s Homes!)
By Linda Barnard
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Review, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, TIFF Tribute Awards, Nomadland, Beans, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Tracy Deer, One Night in Miami…, Bruised, Terence Blanchard
TIFF 2020: What to See and How to See it During The World’s Weirdest Year
By Original-Cin Staff
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Views, PreviewTIFF 2020, Ammonite, The Truffle Hunters, One Night in Miami…, The Father, Downstream to Kinsahsa, Falling, Nomadland, I Am Greta, Pieces of a Woman, Gaza mon amour, Violation, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, The Inconvenient Indian, MLK/FBI, City Hall, Frederick Wiseman, Viggo Mortensen, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Halle Berry, Regina King, Daniel Oyelowo, Spike, Chloe Zhao, Mark Wahlberg, documentary, Special Presentations, Gala, Wavelengths, Discovery, Contemporary World Cinema, In Coversation With, Short Cuts, Midnight Madness, Connie Britton, Gary Sinise
Original-Cin/Hollywood Suite Cross-Promo: Kim Hughes on Love Deliberately (Savagely) Broken
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Views, Preview, ReviewOriginal-Cin, Hollywood Suite, Kim Hughes, Cross-promo, Take This Waltz, Unfaithful, Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee, Sarah Polley, Adrian Lyne, Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez, Sarah Silverman
