Tammy’s Always Dying: Hamilton-Shot Dramedy Explores Filial Love in a Time of Crisis
ReviewTammy's Always Dying, Amy Jo Johnson, Felicity Huffman, Anastasia Phillips, Clark Johnson, TIFF 2019, Hamilton, Canadian movies, Toronto, Dramedy, Black comedy
Televised Stage Performance of Fleabag is Like an Origin Story… but Awesome-r
A Secret Love: Doc about elderly same-sex couple who 'come out' after 60-plus years is literally a moving experience
ReviewJim SlotekSenior gay couples, Chris Bolan, A Secret Love, Terry Donahue, Pat Henschel, South by Southwest, Ryan Murphy, Jason Blum, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, A League of Their Own, Same sex issue documentaries
Hollywood: Netflix's seven-episode soap about post-WWII movie star wannabes is a lurid guilty pleasure
ReviewJim SlotekHollywood Netflix series, Rock Hudson, Jake Picking, Jim Parsons, Scotty Bowers, Glee, Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, David Corenswet, Maude Apatow, Period TV series, Dylan McDermott, Patti LuPone, Darren Criss, Peg Entwistle
Finding Sally: Riveting Doc Traces Family’s Search for a Lost Aunt… And the Truth
By Linda Barnard
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Enemy Lines: Loosely fact-based save-the-scientist war story plays like a game of Capture the Flag
ReviewJim SlotekEnemy Lines, World War II, Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl, John Hannah, Pawel Delag, Save the scientist war films, Ekaterina Vladimirova, Alsos Mission, Manhattan Project, Joseph Rotblat
True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball - NFB film removes the sugar-coating from 'We The North' boosterism
ReviewJim SlotekTrue North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball, NFB free streaming movies, Sports documentaries, Hoop Dreams, Steve Nash, Damon Stoudamire, Ryan Sidhoo, Elijah Fisher, Keone Davis, Cordell Veira, U.S. Division 1 NCAA, Sports sponsorships, Cory Joseph, Toronto Raptors
Your weekend-less guide: What to watch that's NOT in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekStreamed movie roundups, The Willoughbys, Animated kids comedy, Gothic lite children's entertainment, Martin Short, Will Forte, Extraction, Chris Hemsworth, They Call Us Warriors, 24 Davids, Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans, 9/11 Kids, Elizabeth St. Philiip, Never Have I Ever., Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
24 Davids: Quirky and thought-provoking NFB doc seeks people named Dave, whom you may not know, but should
By Linda Barnard
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Extraction: Aussie mercenary Chris Hemsworth also plays one in an empty, bombastic Netflix action film
ReviewJim SlotekExtraction, Chris Hemsworth, Sam Hargrave, Joe Russo, Graphic novel based adventures, Netflix movies, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Pankaj Tripathi, Priyanshu Painyuli, Golshifteh Farahani, David Harbour, Stranger Things, Netflix
Planet of the Humans: Michael Moore Cohort Charts Enviro-Disaster with Mixed Results
They Call Us Warriors: True tale of Venezuela's 2016 Women's Under-17 football is an underdog story with geopolitics
9/11 Kids: Hot Docs film on CBC follows the adult lives of a Grade 2 class who were symbols of terrorist trauma
By Linda Barnard
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The Willoughbys: Child neglect and parent-killing schemes provides oddly fun fodder for bored, quarantined kids
ReviewJim SlotekThe Willoughbys, Lois Lowry, The Giver, Dark children's comedies, Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket’s Daniel Handler, Vancouver's BRON animation, Ricky Gervais, Martin Short, Jane Krakowski, Kris Pearn, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Will Forte, Alessia Cara, Seán Cullen, Maya Rudolph, Rob Lodermeier, Mark Stanleigh
National Canadian Film Day: This year, the movies are coming to a home-theatre near you
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNational Canadian Film Day, Elevation Pictures, eOne, LevelFILM, Mile End, Mongrel Media, Pacific Northwest Pictures, Theatrical movie events being streamed, COVID-19 effect on movies, The Song of Names, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, And the Birds Rained Down, The Grizzlies, Anthropocene, RUN THIS TOWN
Restored Classic Western The Grey Fox Gallops to the Aid of Indie Theatres Nationwide
Review, Preview, InterviewThe Grey Fox, National Canadian Film Day, Philip Borsos, Richards Farnsworth, Ron Mann, Canadian movies, Westerns, COVID-19 effect on movies, Jackie Burrows, Films We Like, Independent cinema
Your weekend-less guide: What to watch that's NOT in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekCOVID-19 effect on movies, Hot Docs, Barry Avrich, Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, CBC Gem, Kim Kardashian-West: The Justice Project, Saigon Metalhood: Vietnam’s Heaviest Story, Ken Jennings, Jeopardy!, The Game Show Network, Mrs. America, Cate Blachett, Rose Byrne, Tracey Ullman, Phyllis Schlaffly, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Streamed movie roundups
Mrs. America: Striking Biopic on Key Feminist Chapter Says Goodbye to an ERA
ReviewMrs. America, Dahvi Waller, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tracey Ullman, FX, iTunes movies, Women's issues, Women's right, Gloria Steinem, Drama, Historical drama, Biopic, Mad Men, John Slattery
Doc your world!: Some cool, eclectic non-fiction to be streamed from farther-flung corners
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekStreaming movies during COVID-19, The American Nurse, Carolyn Jones, Kim Kardashian-West: The Justice Project, www.hayu.com, U.S. incarceration rates, Shakedown, Los Angeles black lesbian strip bar, The Whitney Museum, Pornhub, Ronnie-Ron, Caniba, Criterion Channel, Issei Sagawa, Renée Hartevelt, Cannibal murder, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Saigon Metalhood: Vietnam’s Heaviest Story, Vimeo, Spinal Tap, Trung Thanh, Trung Loki, Hysterical Buffalo
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art - a grade A dissection of one of America's biggest art scams
ReviewJim SlotekHot Docs International Film Festival, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Barry Avrich, Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, Art fraud, Documentaries, Events postponed due to caronavirus, Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, M. Knoedler & Co, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louvre, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Maria Konnikova, The Confidence Game, Domenico di Sole, Sotheby's
