The Beach House: Low-Budget Horror Makes Hay from H.P. Lovecraft Tradition
Greyhound: Captain Tom Hanks writes and delivers a tight, tense, theatre-experience war film
ReviewJim SlotekTom Hanks, Rita Wilson, COVID-19 effect on movies, Saving Private Ryan, Greyhound, C. S. Forester, The Good Shepherd, Battle of the Atlantic, Elisabeth Shue, War movies, Naval battle movies, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan, The Enemy Below, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Aaron Schneider
Family Romance LLC: Herzog's fiction-documentary hybrid explores a world of paid surrogates for all aspects of Japanese life
ReviewJim SlotekWerner Herzog, amily Romance LLC, Yuichi Ishii, Surrogates hired to play friends and family, Japanese culture, Fiction/documentary hybrids, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alps, Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, Sasha Grey, MUBI streaming service
Money Machine: Chronicle of Vegas Mass Shooting Neither Probing Nor Convincing
Suzi Q: Doc on Rocker Suzi Quatro Delivers Stars but Dodges Paradoxes
Original-Cin Presents… Films to Fire Your Canada Day (Since Group BBQs are Pretty Much Out)
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Views, Review, PreviewCanadian movies, Shivers, David Cronenberg, Little Italy, Meatballs, John Candy, Rip-Off, Face-Off, It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time, Never Cry Wolf, The Silent Partner, Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer, Bill Murray, Ivan Reitman
Broadway's Hamilton survives its transition to Disney with passion intact, albeit minus an F-bomb or three
ReviewJim SlotekHamilton, Disney Plus, Broadway musicals filmed for home streaming, King George III, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Rodgers Theatre, Thomas Kail, Fosse/Verdon, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr, What Did I Miss, You’ll Be Back, Burr, Sir
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - Will Ferrell's man-child persona finds a warmly absurd Icelandic heart in this pop spoof
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekWill Ferrell, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Andrew Steele, David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers., Icelandic characters, Celine Dion, ABBA, Pierce Brosnan, Jaja Ding Dong, Dan Stevens, Jamie Demetriou, Natasia Demetriou, What We Do in the Shadows
Force of Nature: Just Another Run-of-the-Mill Art Heist Troubled Cop Natural Disaster Movie
ReviewForce of Nature, Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth, Emile Hirsch, Michael Polish, Cory Miller, Action, disaster movie, Cops, Art heist
The 11th Green: Oddball Time-Travelling Drama Captures Paranoid Political Moment
Who Farted?: Doc by prankster Nerenberg is a colourless, odourless 'gas,' with a whiff of serious overtones
ReviewJim SlotekAlbert Nerenberg, Prankish documentaries, Morgan Spurlock, Michael Moore, Who Farted?, World Fart Championships in Northern Finland, Nik Sheehan, FLicKeR, Whoopee Cushion, Le Pétomane, Mr. Methane, Simon Cowell, Harrison Ford, Greenhouse gases from flatulence, Methane released from permafrost, Fart jokes
Hammer: Canuck Crime Drama Buoyed By Understatement and Solid Acting
Irresistible: Jon Stewart directs a political comedy with less bite than we expected, but some thoughts to chew on
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekJon Stewart, The Daily Show, Talk show host turned filmmaker, Irresistible, Super PACs, Bellwether U.S. elections, Steve Carell, Chris Cooper, Brent Sexton, Mackenzie Davis, Rose Byrne, Jon Ossoff, Veep, Rosewater, Trevor Potter, Dark money in elections
Exit Plan: Hallucinogenic, Slow-Burn Thriller Offers Chills and a Cerebral Buzz
Mr. Jones: With an uneven plot and a profound and powerful silent act, Agnieszka Holland wades into Ukraine's Holodomor
ReviewJim SlotekAgnieszka Holland, Ukrainian Holodomor, Mr. Jones, Gareth Jones, Josef Stalin, Collectivization deaths, Man-made famine, James Norton, Europa Europa, Walter Duranty, Compromised media, Peter Sarsgaard, Vanessa Kirby
The Rest of Us: A dead man's two families grudgingly cohabit in a sweet spirited film that plays like a pilot
ReviewJim SlotekExtended families learning to live together, The Rest of Us, Aisling Chin-Yee, Half siblings, Alanna Francis, Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour, Abigail Pniowsky, Big Little Lies
Original-Cin Review/Interview: Stealing School director Li Dong talks 'Asian Fs,' school's exaggerated importance and absurd tribunals
Review, InterviewJim SlotekStealing School, Li Dong, Academic tribunals, plagiarism accusations, Celine Tsai, racism, Jonathan Keltz, Over importance of academia, Michelle Monteith, Matthew Edison, Mpho Koah, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz
You Don’t Nomi: Doc of Kitsch Classic Showgirls Shows What Legacies Look Like
Think Like a Dog: Overly busy kidflick is a bit of a bow-wow, but you will say, 'Awww'
ReviewJim SlotekTalking dog movies, Think Like a Dog, Apple TV+’, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Doctor Dolittle, Gabriel Bateman, Chinese box office, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Kunal Nayyar, The Big Bang Theory, Neo Hooo, Gil Junger, Todd Stashwick
Original-Cin/Hollywood Suite Cross-Promo: Liam Lacey Programs Disturbing Relationships Into The 'Decades' Channels
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Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekCactus Flower, The End of the Affair, Death in Venice, Fatal Attraction, War of the Roses, Hollywood Suite, Shoot The Moon, Single White Female, The Crying Game, You Can Count on Me, Blue Valentine, Gone Girl, Drama, Comedy, Neil Jordan, Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling, Goldie Hawn, Jennifer Jason Leigh
