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Human Rights Watch Film Festival: The event is free, the cause is freedom

By Liam Lacey

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PreviewJim SlotekThe Human Rights Watch Film Festival, International human rights abuses, I Am Not Alone, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 2018 Armenian revolution, On The President’s Orders, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine drug war executions, Gay Chorus: Deep South, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Born In Evin, Maryam Zaree, Director born in Iranian prison, The Trial: The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov, Askold Kurov, Russian annexation of Crimea, Made in Bangladesh, Garment workers abuses in Bangladesh, Unionizing in BangladeshComment
The Blood in The Snow Film Fest: Great grade "Eh" horror on grade Z budgets

By Jim Slotek

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PreviewJim SlotekBlood in The Snow Film Festival, Canadian horror movies, Prom Night, Black Christmas, Ginger Snaps, Danishka Esterhazy, Handmaid’s Tale, Level 16, Puppet Killer, Lisa Ovies, Aleks Paunovic, Van Helsing, Audrey Cummings, Canadian Film Centre, Berkshire County., She Never Died, Jason Krawczyk, He Never Died, Henry Rollins, American Gods, Olunike Adeliyi, Peter MacNeill, Paul Tanter, The Nights Before Christmas, Once Upon a Time at Christmas, Dead Dicks, Chris Bavota, Lee Paula Springer, Hunter’s Moon, Matthew Campagna, Z, Brandon Christensen, Bates Motel, Keegan Connor TracyComment
More than Mr. Lawrence: TIFF Nagisa Oshima retrospective encompasses '60s zeitgeist of sex, politics and crime

By Liam Lacey

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PreviewJim SlotekNagasi Oshima, TIFF Bell Lightbox retrospectives, In The Realm of Oshima: The Best of Japanese Master Nagisa Oshima, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, In The Realm of the Senses, Jean-Luc Godard, Max, Mon Amour, Charlotte Rampling, Sir Laurens van der Post, Cruel Story of Youth, Rebel without a Cause, The Sun’s Burial, Night and Fog in Japan, AMPO treaty (the US-Japan mutual defense pact, The Ceremony, Violence At Noon, Death By Hanging, The Man Who Left His Will on Film, Pleasures of the FleshComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Downton Abbey's 'Downstairs staff,' Phyllis Logan and Lesley Nicol talk Imelda Staunton, Thomas Barrow's sexuality and seeing themselves on an IMAX screen
Original-Cin Q&A: Downton Abbey's 'Downstairs staff,' Phyllis Logan and Lesley Nicol talk Imelda Staunton, Thomas Barrow's sexuality and seeing themselves on an IMAX screen

By Bonnie Laufer

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Interview, PreviewJim SlotekDownton Abbey movie, Michelle Dockery, King George V, Queen Mary, Robert James-Collier, Jim Carter, Maggie Smith, Lesley Nicol, Period TV series, Early 20th Cenury England, Julian Fellowes, Michael Engler, Phyllis Logan, Imelda Staunton, Thomas Barrow, Sophie McSheraComment