Random Acts of Violence: Jay Baruchel’s Long-Lead Slasher/Horror Flick Doesn’t Quite Kill
ReviewJay Baruchel, Random Acts of Violence, Jordana Brewster, Jesse Williams, slasher flick, horror, comic book, Canadian film, Jesse Chabot, Goon
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful - a snapshot of maybe-misogynist, provocative fashion photography
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekHelmut Newton, Documentary, Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful, Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour, Provocative fashion photography, Gero von Boehm, Alice Springs, Leni Riefenshtal, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Grace Jones, Nadja Auerman, Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Schiffer, Hanna Schygulla, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sontag, Misogyny in fashion
Life Is Easy: Freaky Friday Premise Gets Daring New Spin in Brash Kiwi Series
Preview, ReviewLife Is Esay, Cole Jenkins, New Zealand, Comedy, Series, LGBTQ, Freaky Friday, Queer as Folk, Gay Film, Gender issues
Enter the Fat Dragon: Ill-Advised Remake of Spoof Comedy Wastes Its Bankable Lead
ReviewEnter the Fat Dragon, Kung-fu, Kenji Tanigaki, Wong Jing, Donnie Yen, Teresa Mo, Niki Chow, Bruce Lee, Spoof, martial arts, remake
White Riot: Doc Chronicles Vintage, Punk-Fuelled (And Oh So Timely) Anti-Racism Crusade
ReviewWhite Riot, documentary, Music documentaries, Rubika Shah, Punk rock, The Clash, Tom Robinson, Steel Pulse, The Selecter, Anti-racism, Rock Against Racism
The Truth: Director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Nod to French Cinema Propels Ace Family Drama
ReviewThe Truth, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Clementine Grenier, Manon Clavel, French cinema, Family drama, Film within a film, TIFF 2018
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)
By Original-Cin Staff
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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
