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Anna: Luc Besson Thriller Not Quite A Feminist Fiesta But It Gives Good Action (Sorry)

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJune 20, 2019Anna, Luc Besson, Thriller, Cillian Murphy, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Sasha Luss, Drama, La Femme NikitaComment

Toy Story 4: Latest Chapter in Winning Franchise a Bracing Look at Childhood Lost

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJune 19, 2019Keegan-Michael Key, Keanu Reeves, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Christina Hendricks, Annie Potts, Jordan Peele, Toy Story 4, Sequel, Franchise, Disney PixarComment

Dogman: Dark Italian Drama Raised by Great Performance, Uncanny Setting

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJune 19, 2019Marcello Fonte, Matteo Garone, Dogman, TIFF 2018, italian movies, Cannes, Award winnerComment

Wild Rose: Heartwarming Tale Persuasively Tallies the Price of Chasing Dreams

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJune 19, 2019Sophie Okonedo, Julie Walters, Jessie Buckley, TIFF 2018, Country music, Dramedy, BritishComment

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir: Multinational co-production has a bit of everything but not enough of anything

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 18, 2019The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, Ken Scott, Seducing Doctor Lewis, The Grand Seduction, Starbuck, Bollywood stars, International co-productions, Romain Puértolas, Dhanush, Amruta Sant, Erin Moriarty, Bérénice Bejo, The ArtistComment

Your Weekend Film Round-Up: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres

By Original-Cin Staff

There Are No Fakes: Engrossing doc on Indigenous art fraud reveals bigger picture

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekJune 14, 2019There Are No Fakes, Documentaries, Art forgeries, Norval Morrisseau, Kevin Hearn, Barenaked Ladies, Anishinaabe, Thunder Bay, Jamie KastnerComment

Shaft: Lame Reboot Sucks the Cool Out of the Sassy Original (and Its Followups)

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJune 13, 2019Isaac Hayes, Shaft, Tim Story, Ride Along, Remake, Samuel L. Jackson, Regina King, Richard Rowntree, Regina Hall, Blaxploitation Comments

Men in Black: International - Aliens still walk among us, but the thrill is gone

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 13, 2019Men in Black: International, Franchise reboots, Hellboy, Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Cute aliens, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Les Twins, Kumail Nanjiani, F. Gary Gray Comment

Watergate: Everything you wanted to know - in two separate films - but no mention of the "T" word

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJune 12, 2019Watergate, Deep Throat, CREEP, Nixon, Charles Ferguson, Watergate documentary, Archibald Cox, John Dean, Daniel Ellsberg, Elizabeth Holtzman, Barbara Jordan, Douglas Hodge, Parallels between Trump and NixonComment

Late Night: Implausible talk-show-themed screwball comedy doesn't add up

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekJune 12, 2019Late Night, Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, Amy Ryan, Denis O'Hare, Nisha Ganatra, John Lithgow, Late Night Talk Shows, Comedy writers rooms, White male perspectiveComment

The Dead Don't Die: Jim Jarmusch's hilarious zombie/eco satire slips in a dry lament between killer laughs

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekJune 12, 2019The Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch, Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Zombie movies, Zombie spoofs, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, RZA, Wu Tang Clan, Tilda Swinton, Selena Gomez, Caleb Landry Jones, Only Lovers Left Alive, Environmental messagesComment

Your weekend preview: What to watch (and what to skip) in theatres this weekend

Dark Phoenix: A dozen X-Men movies later, how the mighty have fallen

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekJune 6, 2019Dark Phoenix, X-Men, Superhero farewells, James McAvoy, Sophie Turner, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Simon Kinberg, The Martian, The Fantastic Four, Shazam!, Brian DePalma, The Fury, Carrie, FirestarterComment

The Tomorrow Man: Lithgow and Danner wring unlikely romance out of a conspiracy monger's sad lot

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 6, 2019The Tomorrow Man, Blythe Danner, John Lithgow, I'll See You In My Dreams, Conspiracy nuts, Noble Jones, Elderly romances, Derek Cecil, The Federalist Papers, OriginalistsComment

Mouthpiece: Patricia Rozema's stage adaptation successfully divides the psyche into two bickering halves

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJune 6, 2019Mouthpiece, Film adaptations of hit plays, Amy Nostbakken, Norah Sadava, Patricia Rozema, Internal dramas, Funeral stories, Canadian movies, Jodie Foster, Edinburgh Fringe FestivalComment

The Souvenir: Two Swintons, and an autobiographical take on an artistic voice muted by an affair

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekJune 6, 2019The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg, Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Autobiographical dramas, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Art house movies, Mother and daughter actressesComment

We preview the Toronto Japanese Film Fest: Dried bone rituals, mindfulness, tea and sake

By Jim Slotek and Liam Lacey

Echo In The Canyon: A nostalgic tribute to the bohemian Laurel Canyon melting pot that launched folk rock

By Karen Gordon

Framing John DeLorean: An oddly successful meta doc about why they should make a movie about John DeLorean

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 4, 2019Framing John DeLorean, John DeLorean, General Motors, Back to the Future, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, War on Drugs, Sheena M. Joyce, Don Argott, Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles, Jason Jones, GTO, FBI sting, CocaineComment