The Secrets We Keep: Post-War Thriller Entertaining Enough… If You Don’t Look Too Closely
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Secrets We Keep, Thriller, Nazis, Yuval Adler, Noomi Rapace, Chris Messina, Amy Seimetz, Joel Kinnaman, Hitchcockian, Drama, WWII
Totally Under Control: Trump’s Bungling of COVID-19 Pandemic Laid Bare in Timely Doc
When the Storm Fades: Curious Quasi-Documentary Highlights the Fallout from Deeds Gone Awry
The War with Grandpa: Shaky Kids-Versus-Codgers Comedy Too Blunt to Punt
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe War with Grandpa, Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Tim Hill, Oakes Fegley, Cheech Marin, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Comedy, Family film, Holiday, Mad Dog and Glory
The Complex: Lockdown: Dramatic Virus Thriller Not So Thrilling (or Dramatic)
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Complex: Lockdown, Paul Raschid, Thriller, Virus, Michelle Mylett, Al Weaver, Kim Adis, Kate Dickie, Pandemic, The Andromeda Strain, Drama
A Fire in The Cold Season: Canuck Noir Offers Artful Take on Crime Thriller Genre
The Glorias: Exhausting Gloria Steinem Biopic a Clear Case of Less Would be More
Review, PreviewJim SlotekJulie Taymor, The Glorias, Biopic, Gloria Steinem, Women's right, Alicia Vikander, Julianne Moore, Bette Midler, Timothy Hutton, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint
Inside Out and Toronto Japanese Film Festival Rise to Pandemic Challenges
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekInside Out, Toronto Japanese Film Festival, Shiva Baby, Jump Darling, It Feels So Good, Stardust, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson:, Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, Breaking Fast:, LBGTQ, The Journalist, To the Ends of the Earth, Tora San: Wish You Were Here, Pandemic movies, Film Festivals, Toronto, Atsuko Maeda
The Last Shift: Tone-Deaf ‘Comedy’ Plays to Stereotypes, Misses Chance for Insight
That’s A Wrap! The Best, Worst, and Weirdest at TIFF 2020
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Views, Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNomadland, Chloe Zhao, Shiva, TIFF 2020, Limbo, One Night in Miami…, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, I Am Greta, Shadow In The Cloud, Quo Vadis, Concrete Cowboy, 76 Days, The Way I See It, Beans, Tracy Deer
Barry Levinson and Denzel Washington ‘In Conversation’ at TIFF: Hollywood titans trade tales and insights
Interview, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, In Coversation With, Denzel Washington, Barry Levinson, Rain Man, Diner, Fences, Antwone Fisher, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday to Saturday, September 17 to 19
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Special Events, TIFF Docs, Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Shiva Baby, Underplayed, Enemies of the State, Gala Presentations, Good Joe Bell, Mark Wahlberg, Gary Sinise, Connie Britton, Gay rights, Toronto filmmaker, The Truffle Hunters, Primetime, A Suitable Boy, Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, Special Presentations, Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Wednesday, September 16
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Limbo, DIscovery, Ben Sharrock, Pieces of a Woman, Gala Presentations, Kornél Mundruczó, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Vanessa Kirby, Wavelengths, Wildfire, Fauna, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, TIFF Docs, Nicolás Pereda, Cathy Brady, Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Special Events, I Am Greta, Greta Thunberg, Nathan Grossman
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Tuesday, September 15
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Contemporary World Cinema, Michel Franco, New Order, Mexico, Corruption, Venice Silver Lion Award, Trickster, TIFF New Wave, Michelle Latimer, CBC, Television, Bandar Band, Manijeh Hekmat, MLK/FBI, TIFF Docs, Masters, The Best Is Yet To Come, Notturno, Wang Jing, journalism
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Monday, September 14
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Review, PreviewTIFF 2020, 76 Days, TIFF Docs, COVID-19, The Father, Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Contemporary World Cinema, Jasmila Žbanić, Jasna Đuričić, 180 Degree Rule, Discovery, Farnoosh Samadi, Ephraim Asili, The Inheritance, Wavelengths, Violation, Dusty Mancinelli, Midnight Madness, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Ammonite, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gala Presentations, Francis Lee
Saoirse Ronan ‘In Conversation’ Reveals Acclaimed Actor’s Debt to Her Directors
Interview, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Saoirse Ronan, In Coversation With, Kate Winslet, Lady Bird, greta gerwig, Brooklyn, John Crowley, Timothée Chalamet, Anne T. Donahue
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Sunday, September 13
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Preview, ReviewTIFF 2020, TIFF Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Special Presentations, Special Events, Falling, Beans, Wolfwalkers, Summer of '85, Viggo Mortensen, Laura Linney, David Cronenberg, Tracey Deer, TIFF Emerging Talent, fact based drama, Canadian, François Ozon, Felix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Animation, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
TIFF Press Conference: Debut Director Regina King (One Night in Miami…) on Breaking Ground, Being Black
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Interview, PreviewRegina King, One Night in Miami…, TIFF 2020, Press conferences, Eli Goree, Leslie Odom Jr., Kingsley Ben-Adir, adaptation, Aldis Hodge, Kemp Powers, Black Lives Matter, Gala Presentations
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Saturday, September 12
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Review, PreviewTIFF 2020, Contemporary World Cinema, Japan, Drama, Miwa Nishikawa, Lift Like A Girl, TIFF Docs, TIFF New Wave, Akilla’s Escape, Special Events, Penguin Bloom, The Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer, Naomi Watts, Planet Africa 25, Nomadland, Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Preparations To be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Friday, September 11
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Preview, ReviewTIFF 2020, The DIsciple, Special Presentations, The Way I See It, Special Events, One Night in Miami…, Regina King, Gaza mon amour, Discovery, Tarzan Nassar, Arab Nassar
