Enhanced: Familiar Mutants Among Us… But Duller Than Ever
Hot Docs 2021: COVID, consciousness and issues of colour, streaming to the fest's biggest audience ever
PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs International Film Festival 2021, A.rtificial I.mortality, Ann Shin, Brett Hendrie, Hotdocs.ca, Yung Chang, Wuhan Wuhan, With Drawn Arms, Tanya Talaga’s Spirit to Soar, The Taste of Desire, Come Back Anytime, The Death of My Two Fathers, Magaluf Ghost Town, The Silence of the Mole, Songs That Flood the River, Gaucho Americano, International documentary film festivals, My Mohamed is Different, The Colonel’s Stray Dogs
Iron Mask: Jumbled Schwarzenegger/Jackie Chan Period Piece May Watch Better While High
Review, PreviewJim SlotekIron Mask, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actioner, Period piece films, Oleg Stepchenko, Fantasy, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Jason Flemyng, Yao Xington, CGI
Doors: Weird End-of-Days Sci-Fi Thriller Nods to Stanley Kubrick… and Breakfast Club
Review, PreviewJim SlotekDoors, Sci-fi, Saman Kesh, Jeff Desom, Dugan O'Neal, Breakfast Club, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Hemphill, Darius Levantè, Kyp Malone.
Rose Plays Julie: Revenge Thriller Tackles Adoption/Identity Issue with Powerful Results
Wojnarowicz: Remembering a Voice of Protest and the New York AIDS-Generation Art Scene
Review, PreviewJim SlotekWojnarowicz, documentary, New York, New York art scene, 1980s, '80s AIDS epidemic, Chris McKim, Keith Haring, Fran Lebowitz, David Wojnarowicz
Enforcement: Muddled but Forceful Danish Cop Drama Echoes Current Issues in Throwback Style
Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnders Ølholm, Jacob Møller, Enforcement, Danish films, Cop drama, Immigrant experience, Police violence, Simon Sears, Jacob Lohmann, Tarek Zayat
Crisis: Drama About the Opioid Calamity Less Intense than Real Headlines
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCrisis, Drama, Opioid crisis, Nicholas Jarecki, Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Lily-Rose Depp, Michelle Rodriguez, Kid Cudi, fact-based drama
Sacrilege: Strong Female Characters get Wasted (Literally) in Suspense-less Horror
Review, PreviewJim SlotekSacrilege, Horror, David Creed, Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Sian Abrams, Naomi Willow, Paganism, Nightmares, British, Thriller, Midsommar
Hawk and Rev Vampire Slayers: Proving Even Super Low-Budget Can be Super-Fun
Death of a Ladies’ Man: Nice Try but Alas, Only Leonard Cohen Gets to be Leonard Cohen
Praise for Cloris Leachman’s Outstanding Final Role in Jump, Darling
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekJump Darling, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Thomas Duplessie, Drag Queens, Price Edward County, Canadian movies, Phil Connell, Comedy, Drama, Family, Aging, Actors' final performances
My Salinger Year: Memoir-Based Drama about Catcher in the Rye Writer Blurry As its Subject
Review, PreviewJim SlotekMy Salinger Year, Memoir adaptation, Phillipe Falardeau, Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Canadian film, Tim Post
Radical - Exiting Extremism: Film series seeks answers to the question, 'Why are terrible political ideas so contagious?'
Review, PreviewJim SlotekRadical – Exiting Extremism film series, Wild Heart, Jan “Monchi” Gorkow, Goethe-Institut, Toronto Jewish Film Society, The Renegades — Long Way from Home, Mariam Nouri, Lisa Maria Hagen, Combat Girls, Alina Levshin, Films about the contagion of extremism, Jella Haase, David Wnendt, Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox
Land: Robin Wright Navigates Bereavement and Bears in Modest Directorial Debut
Coming 2 America: Warm and Indoors with Eddie Murphy… Isn’t That Enough?
Review, PreviewJim SlotekComing 2 America, Sequel, Comedy, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Craig Brewer, Leslie Jones, James Earl Jones, Black films, Jermaine Fowler
The Affair: Europudding in a Lovely Real-Life Terrarium
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Affair, Clae, Julius Sevcik, Hanna Alström, WWII, architecture, Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, Czech Republic, Nazis, Historical drama, Lesbian love story, Carice van Houten, Villa Tugendhat, adaptation, The Glass Room
Deragh Campbell Soars As a Woman on the Edge in Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 ft.
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnne at 13000 ft., Deragh Campbell, Kazik Radwanski, Lawrene Denkers, Matt Johnson, TIFF 2019, Canadian movies, Drama, Woman on the edge, Skydiving, Dorothea Pass
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Free Documentary Series a Midwinter Gift
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci Shine in Moving Drama Supernova
By Linda Barnard
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