Original-Cin Hot Docs Interview: Tanya Talaga talks Spirit to Soar and Thunder Bay Indigenous youth murders amid the beauty of the North
InterviewJim SlotekThunder Bay Indigenous youth deaths, Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, Fort William First Nation, Spirit to Soar, Hot Docs, Julian Falconer, Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Aboriginal Legal Services, Sioux North High School, Sioux Lookout, Richard Wagamese, David Adams Richards, Miramichi, Michelle Desrosier, Hot Docs 2021., Canadian Spectrum
Original-Cin Q&A: Captain Kirk himself, nonagenarian William Shatner talks Senior Moment (the movie and the condition)
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekWilliam Shatner, Senior Moment, Christopher Lloyd, Fast-driving seniors, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock), Jean Smart, Nonagenarian actors, Spoken word blues album, Star Trek, Sci-fi conventions, T.J. Hooker, The UnXplained
Original-Cin Q&A: Ingrid Veninger on Creating the Ultimate Female Pandemic Collaboration
Review, Preview, InterviewJim SlotekOne (nine), Ingrid Veninger, Female Eye Film Festival, pandemic, Pandemic movies, Female filmmakers, female directors, 2020
Live! From his living room! Comedian Ron James creates an all-new ticketed event with virtual laughs
InterviewJim SlotekLive comedy during the pandemic, Ron James, Virtual concerts, Live from My Living Room: Spring Loaded, Up and Down in Shakytown, CBC comedy specials, El Mocambo, Belleville theatre The Empire, Keith Tomasek, Paul Pogue, The Road Between My Ears, Mike MacDonald, Billy Connolly
Original-Cin Q&A: Matthew Bissonnette and Gabriel Byrne talk Leonard Cohen and Death of a Ladies' Man
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Jump, Darling director and co-star talk about Cloris Leachman in her final role
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekJump Darling, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Thomas Duplessie, Drag Queens, Price Edward County, Canadian movies, Phil Connell, Comedy, Drama, Family, Aging, Actors' final performances
Original-Cin Q&A: Golden Globe winner Andra Day talks about drinking, smoking and 'earning' Billie Holiday's voice
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Steve Zahn talks his movie Cowboys, catching hell from Tom Hanks, and Christian Bale's little known sense of humour
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekFather son road movies, Cowboys, Anna Kerrigan, Steve Zahn, Tribeca Film Festival, Sasha Knight, Jillian Bell, Christian Bale, Jack Black, That Thing You Do, Tom Hanks
CRAVE CORNER: We relive the late Chadwick Boseman's Hollywood 'entrance,' and his thoughts on playing Jackie Robinson in 42
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekCrave TV, Black History Month, Jackie Robinson biopic 42, Chadwick Boseman, Nominated for a Golden Globe, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, James Brown in Get On Up, Thurgood Marshall, Marvel Cinematic Universe, T’Challa in Black Panther, Harrison Ford, Brian Helgeland, Rachel Robinson, Alan Tudyk, Branch Rickey
Original-Cin Q&A: Viggo Mortensen, talks up his very personal directorial debut, Falling, and the Cronenberg effect
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekViggo Mortensen, Actors turned director, Falling, Father and son reconciliation stories, Terry Chen, Gabby Velis, Lance Henriksen, Laura Linney, Sverrir Gudnason, Hannah Gross, David Cronenberg, Jane Campion, Matt Ross, Pete Farrelly
Original-Cin Q&A: Director Fisher Stevens on snagging a world-touring Justin Timberlake for the drama Palmer
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekFisher Stevens, Actors turned director, Palmer, Justin Timberlake, Ex-convict redemption stories, Ryder Allen, Juno Temple, Apple TV+, June Squibb, Leonardo DiCaprio, Before the Flood
Original-Cin Q&A: Kingsley Ben-Adir talks playing Malcolm X in One Night in Miami and Obama in The Comey Rule
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekOne Night in Miami, Regina King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, Playwright Kemp Powers, Kingsley Ben-Adir, The Comey Rule, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Hamilton
Original-Cin interview: Julian Richings talks about his face, why he loves horror and why horror loves him
InterviewJim SlotekActors specializing in horror, Julian Richings, Anything for Jackson, Sheila McCarthy, War of the Worlds, Supernatural, Stardust, David Bowie, Tony Defries, Johnny Flynn, Chapelwaite, Emily Hampshire, Schitt's Creek, Adrien Brody, Stephen King, Jerusalem’s Lot, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Man of Steel
Original-Cin Q&A: Blues great Joe Bonamassa talks about circumventing camera-shyness to make his doc Guitar Man
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: The young stars of Netflix's musical The Prom, on working with Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekRyan Murphy, Glee, Hollywood, The Prom, Netflix adaptation of a Broadway musical, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Andrew Rannells, Kerry Washington, Jo Ellen Pellman, Ariana DeBose, Keegan-Michael Key, Same-sex prom date controversies, Bob Martin, The Drowsy Chaperone
Original-Cin Q&A: Aaron Eckhart talks up the thriller Wander with Tommy Lee Jones - but what he'd really like to do is host a podcast
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekAaron Eckhart, murder mystery, April Mullen, Wander, Tommy Lee Jones, Ron Howard, The Missing, Harvey Dent, Celebrity podcasts, Keeping in character, Jack Nicholson
Original-Cin Q&A: Amanda Seyfried talks about David Fincher's many takes in Mank, and the lost talent of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekMank, David Fincher, Netflix, Citizen Kane, Greatest movie of all time, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Gary Oldman, Orson Welles, Tom Burke, Amanda Seyfried, Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, Award season movies
Original-Cin Q&A: Shawn Mendes doc director Grant Singer talks 109-show shoot, voice crises and T.O. homecoming
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekConcert tour documentaries, Shawn Mendes, Shawn Mendes: In Wonder, Grant Singer, The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Canadian pop sensations, Camila Cabello, Netflix, Pickering
Original-Cin Q&A: ZAPPA director Alex Winter on why the doc is more about the man than the music
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekFrank Zappa documentary, Alex Winter, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Downloaded, The Panama Papers, Showbiz Kids, Gail Zappa, Bill and Ted: Face The Music, Editor Mike Nichols, Senate hearings on record labeling, Ahmet Zappa, Diana Serra Cary, Cameron Boyce
Original-Cin Q&A: Jackie Chan filmmaking partner Stanley Tong talks about their bond, and the Vanguard stunt that almost killed the action star
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekJackie Chan, Writer/director Stanley Tong, Rumble in the Bronx, Supercop, Kung Fu Yoga, Vanguard., Actors doing stunts, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Yang Yang, Top Gun, Michelle Yeoh, Miya Muqi, Near fatal stunts
