Toronto Japanese Film Festival: A Sushi Platter for All Tastes and Ages
PreviewJim SlotekToronto Japanese Film Festival, Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality, Cells at Work!, She Taught Me Serendipity, Give It All, Let’s Go Karaoke!, Nintama Rantaro Invincible Master of the Dokutake Ninja, Teki Cometh, Petals and Memories, 90 Years Old — So What?, Aimitagai, Living in Two Worlds, River Returns, Sunset Sunrise, The Lens of Tamio Wakayama, Ravens, The Vow from Hiroshima, Muromachi Outsiders, Bushido, Seppuku: The Son Goes Down, Cloud, Angry Squad: Civil Servants and Seven Swindlers, La Grande Maison Paris, Last Mile
The Blue Mountain Film Festival: Nope, No Slopes, But Movies For All
PreviewJim SlotekRegional film festivals, Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival, Summer tourism at winter ski destinations, Patti Kendall, Salsa at Blue, Agora: Path of Light, Producer Daniel Bekerman, Programmer Jason Gorber, Canadian premiere of Racewalkers, Carson Lund’s Eephus, Black Dog, Ojibway-dubbed Star Wars, Middletown
Inside Out Film and Video Festival Turns 35 with Tales of Transformation
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekInside Out Film and Video Festival, 35th anniversary edition of Inside Out, Opening Gala Outerlands, Closing Gala The Best Friend (O Melchior Amigo), Zackery Drucker’s documentary, Enigma., Rohan Kanawade’s Cactus Pears (Sabafr Bonda), Sweet Angel Baby, Really Happy Someday, J Stevens, Noam Gonick’s Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance, Two Women (Deux Femmes)
Hot Docs 2025: Back With a Vengeance and a Slate of Great Films, Pt. 2
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 2025, Docuementary, documentaries, World Premiere, Agatha’s Almanac, Betrayal, Citizen Minutes, Ghosts of the Sea, Mama Goals, The Nest, Night Watches Us, River of Grass, The Track, #skoden, An American Pastoral, Spreadsheet Champions
Hot Docs 2025: Back With a Vengeance and a Slate of Great Films, Pt. 1
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 2025, Documentary, Documentaries, Premieres, World Premiere, Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, Always, Casas Muertas, How Deep Is Your Love, The Last Ambassador, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, Mother of Chooks, Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man, Saints and Warriors, Shamed, Circusboy, Paul, Marriage Cops, Climate Therapy
National Canadian Film Day: Navigating the Big Day in Canadian Film Online
PreviewJim SlotekNational Canadian Film Day, Festival, Canadian movies, Reel Canada, C.R.A.Z.Y, Crime Wave, Ginger Snaps, My American Cousin, White Room, Waydowntown, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, Rude
Hot Docs Documentary Festival Back and Ready to Rumble
Canadian Film Fest: Elbows Up Goes to the Movies
PreviewJim SlotekCanadian Film Fest, Scotiabank Theatre, Crocodile Eyes, Darkest Miriam, Please After You, His Father’s Son, The Players, Skeet, Vampire Zombies — From Space!, To The Moon, Homegrown, Independent, Ingrid Veninger, The Legacy of Cloud Falls, Canadian, Conceiving Clara
Blood in the Snow Film Fest: DIY Dread From Canada's Creepshow Up-and-Comers
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCanadian horror filmmakers, DIY filmmaking, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Kelly Michael Stewart, Larry Kent’s, She Who Must Burn, James Villeneuve, Pins and Needles, Vivieno Caldinelli’s Scared Shitless, Steven Ogg, Isabel Bader Theatre
Four Fantastic Fall Festivals for Discerning Film Fans
PreviewJim SlotekArchitecture and Design Film Festival, Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines, Rendezvous with Madness, WaaPaKe, A Man Imagined, Drive Back Home, Cinéfranco, Babel et Adams, Les Filles D’Olfa, Omar la Fraise, The Mother and The Bear, Can I Get A Witness?, Reel Asian Film Festival, 1995, Le Bleu de Caftan, Toronto Film Festivals
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Growing Up a Little in its Final Season
Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnimated Star Trek series, Star Trek: Lower Decks final season, Spoofing the Trek franchise, Young Starfleet officers grow up, Show creator Mike McMahan, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 13
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, Dead Talents Society, Midnight Madness, Happyend, Centrepiece, TIFF Next Wave Selects, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Special Presentations, Pedro Páramo, Platform, Seven Days, The Quiet Ones, Discovery, The Substance, They Will Be Dust, Emilia Pérez, The Shadow Strays, The Penguins Lessons, The Last Republican, On Swift Horses, Russians at War, Else, Do I Know You From Somewhere?, The Gesuidouz
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 12
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, All of You, Special Presentations, Dead Mail, Midnight Madness, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Gala Presentations, Nightbitch, Nutcrackers, The Luckiest Man in America, The Swedish Torpedo, Centrepiece, We Live in Time, Your Tomorrow, TIFF Docs, Vice is Broke
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 11
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekA Missing Part, Centrepiece, Babygirl, Special Presentations, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, TIFF Docs, Ick, Midnight Madness, Saturday Night, The Girl With The Needle, The Shrouds, Gala Presentations, You Are Not Alone, Discovery
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 10
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnywhere Anytime Centrepiece, Centre, Escape from the 21st Century, Midnight Madness, Paul Anka: His Way, Special Presentations, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Gala Presentations, The Party’s Over, Discovery, Will & Harper, TIFF Docs, Winter in Sokcho, Platform, Universal Language, Centrepiece
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 9
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF '24, Kill the Jockey, Centrepiece, Riff Raff, Sad Jokes, Discovery, The Room Next Door, Triumph, Viktor, Platform, Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time, Short Cuts, Heretic
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 8
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, Anora, Conclave, Special Presentations, Meet the Barbarians, Gala Presentations, Rumours, Discovery, Village Keeper, Shook, The Last Showgirl, Friendship, Midnight Madness
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 7
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, Mr. K, The End, Matt and Mara, Centrepiece, Platform, Seeds, Space Cowboy, TIFF Docs, Discovery, Daniela Forever, Grand Tour, Wavelengths, U Are The Universe
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 6
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekSuperboys of Malegaon, Gala Presentations, Daughter’s Daughter, Platform, Presence, Centrepiece, So Surreal: Behind the Masks, TIFF Docs, Flow, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
TIFF ’24: We’ve Noticed Themes… Many Interesting, Intersecting Themes
PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, 40 Acres, Can I Get a Witness, Flow, The Exiles, Souleymane’s Story, Anywhere Anytime, To a Land Unknown, Under the Volcano, Beloved Tropic, The Shrouds, Oh, Canada, They Will Be Dust, Dead Talents Society, Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe, Elton John: Never Too Late, The Road: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, The Mother and the Bear, Universal Language, Rumours, Sunshine, The Swedish Torpedo
