Frankie: Stilted Drama As Dysfunctional as the Family at Its Centre
ReviewFrankie, Ira Sachs, TIFF 2019, Isabelle Huppert, Marissa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Drama, Family drama, European
Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word is Power - a wide dive, but not a deep one, into the author's life
ReviewJim SlotekMargaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, Man Booker prize, Alias Grace, The Testaments, Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word Is Power, Peter Raymont, Nancy Lang, Graeme Gibson, Mary Harron, Sarah Polley, Order of the Companions of Honour, Biographical documentaries, PEN International, #MeToo, Stephen Galloway, Hana Gartner
Midway: Minus monsters and aliens, Roland Emmerich puts the boom in naval battle
ReviewJim SlotekMidway, Roland Emmerich, Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Pearl Harbor, Doolittle Raid on Toky, War films, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Woody Harrelson, Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance, Jake Weber, William “Bull” Halsey, Dennis Quaid, Aaron Echhart, Lt. Comm. Jimmy Doolittle, Admiral Yamamoto, Etsushi Toyokawa, Edwin Layton, Patrick Wilson, Dick Best, Ed Skrein, Wade McClusky, Luke Evans
Synonyms: Nadav Lapid's Berlin-winning slap at Israeli machismo and the French superiority complex is outrageous in the best way
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres this weekend
ReviewJim SlotekWeek's movies in review, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron, Linda Hamilton, Terminator: Dark Fate, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Tim Miller, Deadpool, Natalia Reyes, Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem, Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bruc Willis, Alec Baldwin, Cynthia Erriovo, Cynthia Erivo, Harriet Tubman, Feras Fayyad, The Cave, Syrian Civil War, Synonyms, Israeli movies, Tom Mercier, News from Home: The Films of Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman Retrospective Explores Slow Cinema from Feminist View
Preview, Review, ViewsChantal Akerman, TIFF, Retrospective, TIFF retrospectives, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, European cinema, Slow cinema, New From Home, News From Home: The Films of Chantal Ackerman, Cannes
The Cave: Masterful Doc Exposes the Horrors and Heroes of Syria’s Civil War
Harriet: Historical Biopic on Slave-Turned-Abolitionist Hits the Right Notes
By Karen Gordon
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Terminator: Dark Fate - The franchise calls a 'mulligan' and reclaims some of its original spirit
ReviewJim SlotekTerminator: Dark Fate, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron, Linda Hamilton, Terminator Genisys, Deadpool, Tim Miller, Reboot sequels, Terminator T-800, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Mackenzie Davis
Motherless Brookyn: Edward Norton's film-noir writing/directing/starring turn is a worthy 'Chinatown East'
ReviewJim SlotekMotherless Brooklyn, Film noir, Chinatown, Edward Norton, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Moses, Alec Baldwin, James Rouse, Tourette Syndrome, Bruce Willis, Thom Yorke, Wynton Marsalis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Your Weekend Roundup: What to See (And Skip) In The Theatres
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewThe Lighthouse, TIFF 2019, Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Eggers, Black and Blue, Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Naomie Harris, Antonio Banderas, Roundup, imagineNATIVE
Black and Blue: Good Cop/Bad Cop Drama Mines Headlines for Thematic Thrust
The Lighthouse: A hell of a film, claustrophobic, audacious, ambiguous and completely bonkers
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Lighthouse, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Witch, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Hallucinatory narratives, Claustrophobia, Films about the sea, Masculinity, Award season films, Films about solitude and madness
Jojo Rabbit: Lightness and sweetness that doesn't flinch in the face of horror-as-normality
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekJojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi, TIFF Grolsch People's Choice Award, Caging Skies novel, Christine Leunens, Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Comedies with Nazi themes, Comical portrayals of Hitler, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell
Pain and Glory: An older Almodovar dials it down a notch for a touching and evocative redemption tale
ReviewJim SlotekPedro Almodóvar, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pain and Glory, Antonio Banderas, Fellini’s 8 ½, Penélope Cruz, Nora Navas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Awards season films, Creative blockage
By the Grace of God: Francois Ozon's docudrama is a psychological deep-dive into the lives of church abuse survivors
ReviewJim SlotekFrancois Ozon, By the Grace of God, 8 Women, Under the Sand, Swimming Pool, Berlin Film Festival Grand Jury Winner, Church sex abuse scandals, Lyon France, Abbot Bernard Preyat, Melvil Poupaud, Cardinal Barbarin, François Marthouret, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
April in Autumn: The prodigal daughter comes home to some good ol' home-cooked Canadian ennui
ReviewJim SlotekApril in Autumn, Caitlyn Sponheimer, Oscar Moreno, Sandra Pascuzzi, Elizabeth Stuart-Morris, Canadian family dramas, Jimmy Limb, Warren Sulatycky, Mike Sniezek, Constantine Pavlou, Melancholy tone of Canadian movies
Zombieland: Double Tap - A hilarious splash of 'who cares?' in a world full of zombie apocalypses
ReviewJim SlotekZombieland: Double Tap, Zombieland, Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don't Die, Zombie comedies, Long delayed sequels, The Walking Dead, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Jesse Eisenberg, T-800 Terminator, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Zoey Deutch, Rosario Dawson, Ruben Fleischer
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil - More half-baked Marvel-esque apocalypse than Disney fairytale
ReviewJim SlotekMaleficent: Mistress of Evil, Maleficent, Angelina Jolie, Sleeping Beauty, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elle Fanning, Harris Dicknson, Disney fairytales, Linda Woolverton, Robert Lindsay, Sam Riley, Joachim Rønning
The King: Cinematic mashup of Shakespeare's 'Henrys' makes for thoughtful - albeit long - drama about why we make war
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe King, David Michôd, Joel Edgerton, Shakespeare's Henriad, Shakespearean movies, Timothée Chalamet, Ben Mendelsohn, Sir John Falstaff, Dean-Charles Chapman, William Gascoigne, The Battle of Agincourt, Sean Harris, Lily Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson
