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Original-Cin Q&A: Fingernails director Christos Nikou on Love Apps and Annie Murphy's Dance Moves

Original-Cin Q&A: Fingernails director Christos Nikou on Love Apps and Annie Murphy's Dance Moves

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 31, 2023Techno dating, Fingernails, Sci-fi romantic drama, Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Annie Murphy, Toronto International Film Festival, Christos Nikou, Apple TV+Comment

Dumb Money: When the Little Guys Beat Wall Street for a Hot Minute

Dumb Money: When the Little Guys Beat Wall Street for a Hot Minute

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 18, 2023Dumb Money, GameStop "short squeeze", Movies based on real life stock scandal, Toronto International Film Festival, Paul Dano, America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman, Craig GillespieComment

TIFF Short Cuts: But What I REALLY Want to Do is Direct a Feature

TIFF Short Cuts: But What I REALLY Want to Do is Direct a Feature

By Jim Slotek

Preview, InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 6, 2023Toronto International Film Festival, Short Cuts programme, Short film as a stepping stone to features, Redlights, Eva Thomas, Starlight Tours inflicted on Indigenous people, Kaniehtiio Horn, Ellyn Jade, Jennifer PodemskComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Matthias Schweighöfer on the Syrian women refugee athletes who inspired The Swimmers

Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Matthias Schweighöfer on the Syrian women refugee athletes who inspired The Swimmers

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 21, 2022Toronto International Film Festival, The Swimmers, Yusra and Sara Mardini, Syrian refugees women athletes, Sally El Hosaini, Matthias Schweighöfer, Sven Spannenkrebs, Manal Issa, Nathalie IssaComment

Original-Cin Interview: Buffy Sainte-Marie Comes to TIFF Where She Belongs

Original-Cin Interview: Buffy Sainte-Marie Comes to TIFF Where She Belongs

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 6, 2022Buffy Sainte-Marie, Singer-songwriter documentaries, Toronto International Film Festival, Celebration of Nations, Indigenous activists, Up Where We Belong, Oscar-winning songwritersComment

Original-Cin Interview: Rik Emmett on being the 'Yoko' in the Triumph TIFF film

Original-Cin Interview: Rik Emmett on being the 'Yoko' in the Triumph TIFF film

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 9, 2021Rock power trios, Triumph, Rik Emmett, Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine, Gil Moore, Mike Levine, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

10 minutes of Dune: An intriguing glimpse of Denis Villeneuve’s 'unfilmable' film

10 minutes of Dune: An intriguing glimpse of Denis Villeneuve’s 'unfilmable' film

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekJuly 22, 2021Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Frank Herbert sci-fi novel, Special 10-minute advance teaser, Timothée Chalamet, Toronto International Film Festival, David Lynch, Greig FraserComment

The Way I See It: Obama's Presidential photographer focuses on Trump through an angry lens

The Way I See It: Obama's Presidential photographer focuses on Trump through an angry lens

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 18, 2020Presidential photographer, Pete Souza, Documentary The Way I See it, Warnings about Donald Trump, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Ronald Reagan, Sandy Hook shootings, 2020 Presidential election, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

TIFF Q&A: Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky on replicating the madness at home, and answering our Get The Hell Out review

TIFF Q&A: Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky on replicating the madness at home, and answering our Get The Hell Out review

By Thom Ernst

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 15, 2020Toronto International Film Festival, Midnight Madness, Programmer Peter Kuplowsky, Shadow In The Cloud, Alex Winter's Freaked, Tetsuro Takeuchi's Guitar Wolf, Get The Hell Out, Taiwanese zombie movie, I.-Fan Wang, Edgar Wright, Stephen Chow, Temple of DevilbusterComment

TIFF press conference: How Idris Elba learned to love his horse on Concrete Cowboy

TIFF press conference: How Idris Elba learned to love his horse on Concrete Cowboy

By Linda Barnard

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 14, 2020Idris Elba, Concrete Cowboy, Jamil “Mil” Prattis, Philadelphia's Fletcher Street Stables, Caleb McLaughlin, Stranger Things, Lorraine Toussaint, Orange is the New Black, Toronto International Film Festival, Jharrel Jerome, Moonlight, Lee Daniels, Ricky Staub, Greg Neri’s 2009 novel Ghetto Cowboy, Actors learning to ride a horseComment

Original-Cin TIFF interview: Michelle Latimer on outrageous Indigenous imagery and her stylistic approach to Thomas King's Inconvenient Indian

Original-Cin TIFF interview: Michelle Latimer on outrageous Indigenous imagery and her stylistic approach to Thomas King's Inconvenient Indian

Original-Cin Q&A: Atom Egoyan and David Thewlis talk up film about an overzealous health inspector with a secret

Original-Cin Q&A: Atom Egoyan and David Thewlis talk up film about an overzealous health inspector with a secret

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 6, 2020Atom Egoyan, David Thewlis, Guest of Honour, Psychologically troubled health inspector, Laysla De Oliveira, Animals "killed" in movie plots, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Palestinian director Elia Suleiman talks about his absurdist approach to inflammatory reality

Original-Cin Q&A: Palestinian director Elia Suleiman talks about his absurdist approach to inflammatory reality

By Liam Lacey

Review, InterviewJim SlotekJune 11, 2020Elia Suleiman, It Must Be Heaven, Palestinian filmmaker, Absurdist social comment, Guy Sprung, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Movies released online during pandemic, Yasmine Hamdan, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton, Jacques TatiComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Noah Jupe on playing a young Shia LaBeouf and stickhandling Hollywood

Original-Cin Q&A: Noah Jupe on playing a young Shia LaBeouf and stickhandling Hollywood

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 26, 2019Noah Jupe, Suburbicon, Wonder, A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place: Part II, Ford v Ferrari, Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf, Alma Har'e, Lucas Hedges, Autobiographical dramas, Child actors, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

Original-Cin interview: Pain and Glory's Antonio Banderas talks heart attack, and playing a 'self-fiction' of his friend Almodovar

Original-Cin interview: Pain and Glory's Antonio Banderas talks heart attack, and playing a 'self-fiction' of his friend Almodovar

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 24, 2019Antonio Banderas, Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory, Toronto International Film Festival, Banderas heart attack, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Evita, The Mask of Zorro, Spy Kids, Melanie Griffith, Awards season movies, Filmmakers quasi-autobiographiesComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Hustlers' Constance Wu talks pole dancing, J-Lo, Cardi B and why women are tagged as 'catty'

Original-Cin Q&A: Hustlers' Constance Wu talks pole dancing, J-Lo, Cardi B and why women are tagged as 'catty'

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 15, 2019Hustlers, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Lorene Scafaria, Female crime movies, Cardi B, Stroppers, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

TIFF Press Conference: Susan Sarandon and company talk up the euthanasia drama Blackbird

TIFF Press Conference: Susan Sarandon and company talk up the euthanasia drama Blackbird

By Danita Steinberg

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 6, 2019Toronto International Film Festival, Blackbird, Euthanisia, Assisted suicide, Susan Sarandon, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Kate Winslet, Bainn Wilson, Roger Michell, Sherryl Clark, Press conferences, Oscar buzzComment

Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres

PODCAST! Ep. 25: Talking Cannes, Tarantino, Booksmart (see it) and why Godzilla is King

By Jim Slotek, Karen Gordon, Liam Lacey

PodcastJim SlotekMay 24, 2019Movie podcasts, Original-Cin, Cannes, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Olivia Wilde, Booksmart, Kenneth Branagh, All is True, Godzilla, Shin GodzillaComment

The Quietude: Sexually-charged Argentinian social drama is more soap than art

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 20, 2019The Quietude, Pablo Trapero, Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Argentinian films, Isidoro Tolcachir, Martina Gusman, Benenice Bejo, Joaquín Furriel, Edgar Ramirez, Graciela Borges, Family secrets, Argentinian dictatorship, Wealthy charactersComment