What to See (And What to Skip) In Theatres This Weekend
ReviewJim SlotekThe Favourite, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, The Go-Getters, Jeremy Lalonde, Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Anna and the Apocalypse, Ella Hunt, Almost Almost Famous, Celebrity impersonators, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
Award-season favourite The Favourite: A brilliant blend of Restoration comedy and arch political satire
ReviewJim SlotekThe Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Deborah Davies, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weiss, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Queen Anne, Lady Sarah Churchill, Abigail Masham, The War of Spanish Succession, Robert Harley, Jonathan Swift, Robbie Ryan, Sandy Powell
Anna and the Apocalypse: Zombie High School Christmas Musical (Need We Say More?)
ReviewAnna and the Apocalypse, Zombies, Musical, High School, Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, John McPhail, Ryan McHenry, Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal
Searching for Ingmar Bergman: Insightful Doc Puts Gentle Lens on Influential Director
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, a standard doc about a lonely, insecure GOP "fixer"
Almost Almost Famous: Tribute Act Doc Probes What it Means to Be Someone Else
Reviewdocumentary, Canadian movies, Barry Lank, Music, Tribute Acts, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackie Wilson, Buddy Holly, Hot Docs
The Go-Getters: How low can you go for a laugh? Find out here
ReviewJim SlotekThe Go-Getters, F-bombs, Dark comedy, Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Jeremy Lalonde, Brendan Gall, James Cade, Street people, Prostitution, Canadian movies, Canadian comedies
Your Weekend Film Round-Up: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres
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Preview, ReviewRoma, Alfonso Cuaron, Nothing Like A Dame, Weekly Roundup, Tiger, Clara, Movie podcasts, Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon, Bonnie Laufer, Roger Michell, Barry Avrich
Dead in a Week or Your Money Back: Promptly dead on delivery
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDead in a Week: Or Your Money Back, Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Edmunds, Gangster comedies, Freya Mavor, Guy Ritchie, Suicide, Gunplay, Hitmen
Tiger: A Tame Take on an Actual Canadian Sports Triumph
ReviewJim SlotekJanel Parrish, Canadian film, Mickey Rourke, drama, boxing, Alister Grierson, Michael Pugliese, Prem Singh, Marshall Manesh, Michael 'Mick' Harrity, Liam Lacey
Prosecuting Evil: The last Nuremberg prosecutor continues to fight inhumanity at 99
ReviewJim SlotekBen Ferencz, Nuremberg Trials, International Criminal Court, Einsatzgruppen, Barry Avrich, Prosecuting Evil, Alan Dershowitz, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump
Nothing Like A Dame: 'Mags,' 'Jude' et al dish deliciously about stage history
ReviewJim SlotekTea With The Dames, Nothing Like A Dame, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Joan Plowright, Dame Eileen Atkins, Laurence Olivier, Roger Michell, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, British theatre legends, Franco Zeffirelli
Roma: Gravity Director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gripping Drama Finds Focus in Family
Original-Cin Review/Q&A: Clara Filmmaker Shoots for the Stars (and Mostly Reaches ‘Em, Too)
Review, InterviewClara, TIFF 2018, Canadian film, Romance, Patrick J. Adams, Troian Bellisario, Science fiction, The Big Bang Theory, Ennis Esmer, Film Student, Akash Sherman
Your weekend film round-up: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekRalph Breaks The Internet, John C Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Robin Hood, Aaron Egerton, The Wild Pear Tree, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Julian Schnabel, Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate, Border, Swedish films, Let the Right One In, The Drawer Boy, Michael Healey
Border: Part art-film, part-creature feature from author of Let the Right One In
By Karen Gordon
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The Drawer Boy: Celluloid Take on Acclaimed Stage Play Registers Hits and Misses
The Wild Pear Tree: Portrait of the Artist as a Delusional Young Turk
At Eternity's Gate: Willem Dafoe's Van Gogh helps bring an artist's eye to an artists's life
ReviewJim SlotekFilms about artists, Van Gogh, Julian Schnabel, Paul Gauguin, At Eternity's Gate, Vincent and Theo, Tatiana Lisovkaia, Oscar Isaac, The Starry Night, Arles, Jim Slotek
Creed II: Rocky Retread Revisits Boxing Clichés, Inspires Awe for Abs
ReviewBoxing, Creed II, sequel, Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Dolph Lundgren, Franchise, Brigitte Nielsen
