Michelle Obama and Dalai Lama Together at Last (OK, Not Really) in Fawning New Docs
Stratford's Free Shakespeare Festival: All The World's A Screen
PreviewJim SlotekStratford on Film, Stage plays streamed during quarantine, Streamed Shakespeare, King Lear, Colm Feor, Stephen Ouimette', Macbeth, Ian Lake, Krysten Pellerin, The Tempest, Martha Henry, Timon of Athens, Joseph Ziegler, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Jonathan Goad, King John, Tom McCamus, Graham Abbey, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Evan Buliung, Anthony and Cleopatra., Geraint Wyn Davies, Yanna McIntosh, Romeo and Juliet, Antoine Yared, Sara Farb, The Taming of the Shrew, Ben Carson, Deborah Hay
The Half of It: Ambitious Teen Comedy Mines Sweet Spot Between Love and Identity
Televised Stage Performance of Fleabag is Like an Origin Story… but Awesome-r
Finding Sally: Riveting Doc Traces Family’s Search for a Lost Aunt… And the Truth
By Linda Barnard
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Planet of the Humans: Michael Moore Cohort Charts Enviro-Disaster with Mixed Results
National Canadian Film Day: This year, the movies are coming to a home-theatre near you
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNational Canadian Film Day, Elevation Pictures, eOne, LevelFILM, Mile End, Mongrel Media, Pacific Northwest Pictures, Theatrical movie events being streamed, COVID-19 effect on movies, The Song of Names, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, And the Birds Rained Down, The Grizzlies, Anthropocene, RUN THIS TOWN
Restored Classic Western The Grey Fox Gallops to the Aid of Indie Theatres Nationwide
Review, Preview, InterviewThe Grey Fox, National Canadian Film Day, Philip Borsos, Richards Farnsworth, Ron Mann, Canadian movies, Westerns, COVID-19 effect on movies, Jackie Burrows, Films We Like, Independent cinema
Doc your world!: Some cool, eclectic non-fiction to be streamed from farther-flung corners
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekStreaming movies during COVID-19, The American Nurse, Carolyn Jones, Kim Kardashian-West: The Justice Project, www.hayu.com, U.S. incarceration rates, Shakedown, Los Angeles black lesbian strip bar, The Whitney Museum, Pornhub, Ronnie-Ron, Caniba, Criterion Channel, Issei Sagawa, Renée Hartevelt, Cannibal murder, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Saigon Metalhood: Vietnam’s Heaviest Story, Vimeo, Spinal Tap, Trung Thanh, Trung Loki, Hysterical Buffalo
The 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival: Carrying on, in theory
PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival., Events postponed due to caronavirus, Documentaries, CBC, MADE YOU LOOK: A True Story About Fake Art, Barry Avrich, Elizabeth St. Philip, 9/11 KIDS, Liz Marshall, Meat the Future, They Call Me Dr. Miami, Jean-Simon Chartier, Lord Tim Bell, Influence, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, Hong Kong Moments, Bing Zhou, Larry Flynt for President
Original-Cin Q&A: Mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg Talks New Streaming App Just for Phones
By Bonnie Laufer
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Bacurau: Oddball Brazilian Western Gorefest Spins Heads, Supports Local Theatres
Review, PreviewBacurau, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juliano Dornelles, TIFF 2019, Cannes, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Barbara Colen, Brazilian, Western, Sci-fi, Portuguese
We can still watch movies together, sort of. Here are a couple of ways
PreviewJim SlotekMovies during COVID-19 quarantine, Focus Pictures, Facebook’s Watch Party, Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes, Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Mallrats, Kevin Smith, Pawel Pawlikowski, My Summer of Love, Entertainment Industry Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund, Kino Lober, Bacurau, Fundraising for movie exhibitors
Your Weekend Preview: What to Watch That’s NOT in the Theatres
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Review, PreviewWeekly Roundup, Toronto Public Library, hoopla, kanopy, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Coffee & Kareem, James vs His Future Self, Amazon Prime, French Resistance
Never Rarely Sometimes Always: Assured Indie Film Quietly Ponders Hard Choices
By Karen Gordon
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Resistance: Clumsy Marcel Marceau Biopic Stupendously Mishandles… Everything
Review, PreviewBiopic, Drama, WWII, Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramirez, Marcel Marceau, Jonathan Jakubowicz, iTunes movies, Nazi, French Resistance
Free Streaming: You Don’t Need to Spend Cash to Watch Well During Self-Isolation
Views, Previewstreaming service, kanopy, hoopla, Toronto Public Library, Pain and Glory, The Lighthouse, The Thomas Crown Affair, I Am Not Your Negro, I Am Not A Witch, Monrovia Indiana, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ida, Angel Has Fallen
Your Weekend Review: What To Watch That’s NOT in Theatres
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Preview, Review, ViewsWeekly Roundup, Se7en, Vivarium, Mindhunter, Amazing Stories, streaming service, Netflix, Crave, Apple TV+, Disney+
Self-isolating upside: A chance to catch up on (or revisit) terrific titles during Hollywood Suite freebie month
By Linda Barnard
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Preview, Review, ViewsJim SlotekHollywood Suite, Pandemic movies, Seven, Se7en, Take This Waltz, Flashdance, The King of Marvin Gardens, Quarantine
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres This Weekend
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Review, PreviewThe Jesus Rolls, Seberg, The Invisible Man, Disappearance at Clifton Hill, Beanpole, Elizabeth Moss, John Turturro, Bobby Cannavale, Susan Sarandon, Audrey Tautou, Jon Hamm, Kristen Stewart, Roundup, The Big Lebowski, TIFF 2019
