Original-Cin TIFF 2019 Picks: Friday, September 13

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes and Karen Gordon

Review, PreviewSeptember 12, 2019The Cave, TIFF 2019, TIFF Docs, Special Presentations, I Am Woman, Clemency, Gala Presentations, Marriage Story, Joker, Ford v Ferrari, PlatformComment

Original-Cin TIFF 2019 Picks: Thursday, September 12

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes and Karen Gordon

Review, PreviewSeptember 11, 2019Jungleland, TIFF 2019, Special PresentationsComment

Original-Cin TIFF 2019 Picks: Wednesday, September 11

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes and Karen Gordon

Preview, ReviewSeptember 10, 2019TIFF 2019, The Elder One, This is Not a Movie, True History of the Kelly Gang, Gala, Special Presentations, TIFF Docs, Ema, The VigilComment

Original-Cin TIFF 2019 Picks: Tuesday, September 10

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes and Karen Gordon

Preview, ReviewSeptember 10, 2019Chicuarotes, The Laundromat, Judy, Motherless Brooklyn, TIFF 2019, Contemporary World Cinema, Special PresentationsComment

Motherless Brooklyn: Edward Norton's film-noir writing, directing and starring turn is a worthy 'Chinatown East'

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 9, 2019Motherless Brooklyn, Film noir, Chinatown, Edward Norton, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Moses, Alec Baldwin, James Rouse, Tourette Syndrome, Bruce Willis, Thom Yorke, Wynton Marsalis, Gugu Mbatha-RawComment

It Chapter Two: Diminishing returns make Pennywise more a sad clown than a scary one

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 4, 2019It Chapter Two, Stephen King, Pennywise the Clown, Horror sequels, children in peril, Derry Maine, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Jay Ryan, MacGuffin, Andy Muschietti, Gary Dauberman, Bill Skarsgård Comments

Brittany Runs a Marathon: Ace Comedy Winningly Leverages Self-Loathing for Laughs

By Kim Hughes

ReviewAugust 28, 2019Brittany Runs a Marathon, Jillian Bell, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Michaela Watkins, comedy, Lil Rel Howery, New York CityComment

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles Documents Enduring Appeal of Fiddler on the Roof

By Liam Lacey

ReviewAugust 23, 2019Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles, documentaries, Max Lewkowicz, Fiddler on the Roof, Broadway, Zero Mostel, Jerome RobbinsComment

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan: Wunderkind Xavier Dolan gets lost in translation

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 23, 2019The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Xavier Dolan, Thandie Newton, Ben Schnetzer, Game of Thrones, Kit Harington, Quebecois wuinderkind, Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay, Jacob TierneyComment

Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In Theatres This Week

By Original-Cin Staff

Views, Review, PreviewAugust 23, 2019Angel Has Fallen, Aquarela, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Touch Me Not, Morgan Freeman, Gerard Butler, Issa López, Weekly RoundupComment

Touch Me Not: Hybrid doc-fiction tackles sexual connection in a sex-obsessed, intimacy-starved world

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 23, 2019Adina Pintilie, Touch Me Not, Sex therapy documentary, Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear, Sex workers, Laura Benson, Hanna Hofmann, Seani Love, Tómas Lemarquis, Christian Bayerlein, Sexuality among the differently abledComment

Aquarela: Water, water everywhere, in all its power, in a doc to make you think

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 22, 2019Aquarela, Viktor Kossakovsky, 96-frames-per-second, documentaries about water, Ben Bernhard, Molly Malene Stensgaard, Ainara Vera, Lake Baikal, Finnish composer, Eicca Toppinen, Apocalyptica, Wallace NicholsComment

Tigers Are Not Afraid: The kids aren't all right in this taut, supernatural/drug-war mash-up

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 22, 2019Tigers Are Not Afraid, Issa López, Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, Mexican drug cartel wars, Magical realism, Juan Ramón López, Ianis Guerrero, Tenoch HuertaComment

Angel Has Fallen: Dumb Third Installment in Save-The-World Series Blows Stuff Up, Collapses

By Kim Hughes

ReviewAugust 22, 2019Angel Has Fallen, Action movies, Franchise, Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Danny Huston, Nick Nolte, Ric Roman Waugh, U.S. politics, Drama, GunsComment

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

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 16, 2019Cate Blanchett, Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, After the Wedding, Susanne Bier, Good Boys, Blinded by the Light, Sarfraz Manzoor, Gurinder Chadha, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Mine 9, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Mads BrüggerComment

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: Richard Linklater's screwball comedy eventually shows its heart

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 16, 2019Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Cate Blanchett, Maria Semple, Richard Linklater, Emma Nelson, Troian Bellisario, Zoe Chao, Runaway moms, Q&A interviews, Domestic inner turmoil, Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, Judy Greer, Kristen WiigComment

Good Boys: Tweens-Go-Wild Comedy a Bawdy (Sometimes Icky) Look at Growing Up

By Thom Ernst

ReviewAugust 15, 2019Good Boys, Tweens, Tween comedy, Gene Stupnitsky, Jacob Tremblay, Keith L Williams, Brady Noon, Superbad, Coming-of-age stories, Profane, ComedyComment

Blinded by the Light: 80s-Era Coming of Age Tale Buoyed by Bollywood-ized Boss

ReviewAugust 15, 2019Blinded by the Light, Viveik Kalra, Memoir adaptation, Bend it Like Beckham, Bruce Springsteen, Kulvinder Ghir, Hayley Atwell, Aaron Phagura, Nell WillaimsComment

47 Meters Down: Uncaged - Sharks vs Mean Girls Is No Fun At All

By Liam Lacey

ReviewAugust 14, 201947 Meters Down: Uncaged, Horror, slasher flick, Sequel, Sistine Rose Stallone, Brianne Tju, Brec Bassinger, Sophie Nelisse, John Corbett, Nia Long, Corinne Foxx, Johannes RobertsComment

Cold Case Hammarskjöld: Oddball Documentary Equal Parts John LeCarre, Morgan Spurlock

By Liam Lacey

ReviewAugust 14, 2019Cold Case Hammarskjöld, documentary, Mads Brügger, Goran Bjorkdahl, Dag Hammarskjöld, The New York TimesComment

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