The Complex: Lockdown: Dramatic Virus Thriller Not So Thrilling (or Dramatic)
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Complex: Lockdown, Paul Raschid, Thriller, Virus, Michelle Mylett, Al Weaver, Kim Adis, Kate Dickie, Pandemic, The Andromeda Strain, Drama
The Trial of the Chicago 7: Sacha Baron Cohen channels his inner Abbie Hoffman and Aaron Sorkin's machine-gun dialogue finds a perfect soap-box
ReviewJim Slotek1968 Democratic Convention, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judge Julius Hoffman, Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, Aaron Sorkin, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Fred Hampton, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Sacha Baron Cohen, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Jeremy Strong, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance, Tom Hayden, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS, Eddie Redmayne
A Fire in The Cold Season: Canuck Noir Offers Artful Take on Crime Thriller Genre
The Glorias: Exhausting Gloria Steinem Biopic a Clear Case of Less Would be More
Review, PreviewJim SlotekJulie Taymor, The Glorias, Biopic, Gloria Steinem, Women's right, Alicia Vikander, Julianne Moore, Bette Midler, Timothy Hutton, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint
On the Rocks: Bill Murray and director Sofia Coppola still in sweet sync, 17 years after Lost in Translation
By Karen Gordon
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Inside Out and Toronto Japanese Film Festival Rise to Pandemic Challenges
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekInside Out, Toronto Japanese Film Festival, Shiva Baby, Jump Darling, It Feels So Good, Stardust, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson:, Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, Breaking Fast:, LBGTQ, The Journalist, To the Ends of the Earth, Tora San: Wish You Were Here, Pandemic movies, Film Festivals, Toronto, Atsuko Maeda
Possessor Uncut: Brandon Cronenberg messes with our heads with a provocative tale of body-snatching assassins
ReviewJim SlotekBrandon Cronenberg, Possessor Uncut, Transferring consciousness plots, Sci-fi, Andrea Riseborough, Assassin stories, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, Christopher Abbott, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, Karim Hussain
The World's Biggest Family: How some sperm donors have fathered hundreds, and offspring discover armies of half-siblings
Queen of the Morning Calm: Gloria Kim goes deep in strong drama about a spiralling single mom
ReviewJim SlotekQueen of the Morning Calm, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Tina Jung, Eponine Lee, Single moms in sex trade, Jesse LaVercombe, Shaun Benson, Kim's Convenience, Korea’s nickname, Land of The Morning Calm, Madama Butterfly, Childhood sexual abuse
The Last Shift: Tone-Deaf ‘Comedy’ Plays to Stereotypes, Misses Chance for Insight
Rustic Oracle: An Indigenous story of truthful fiction - tragedy and despair filtered through a child's eyes
Tesla: A biopic with no spark to speak of, and one of the least dynamic performances of Ethan Hawke's career
ReviewJim SlotekNicola Tesla, Michael Almereyda, Tesla biopic, Ethan Hawke, Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule The World, Eve Hewson, J.P. Morgan, Donnie Keshawarz, David Bowie, The Prestige, Thomas Edison, Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Gaffigan, George Westinghouse, Marconi, Sarah Bernhardt, Rebecca Dayan, Deliberate anachronisms
Jay Sebring... Cutting to the Truth: A tribute to a forgotten "name" Manson victim, and an indictment of media frenzy
ReviewJim SlotekCharles Manson, Manson family, 10050 Cielo Drive, Sharon Tate, Anthony DiMaria, Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth, Hollywood men’s hair stylist Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Roman Polanski, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Vic Damone, Quincy Jones, Vincent Bugliosi, Dennis Hopper
That’s A Wrap! The Best, Worst, and Weirdest at TIFF 2020
By Original-Cin Staff
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Views, Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNomadland, Chloe Zhao, Shiva, TIFF 2020, Limbo, One Night in Miami…, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, I Am Greta, Shadow In The Cloud, Quo Vadis, Concrete Cowboy, 76 Days, The Way I See It, Beans, Tracy Deer
The Way I See It: Obama's Presidential photographer focuses on Trump through an angry lens
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekPresidential photographer, Pete Souza, Documentary The Way I See it, Warnings about Donald Trump, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Ronald Reagan, Sandy Hook shootings, 2020 Presidential election, Toronto International Film Festival
Blackbird: A great cast, and yeah, it's a tearjerker - you got a problem with that?
ReviewJim SlotekBlackbird, American remakes of foreign films, Sam Neill, Susan Sarandon, Assisted suicide, Kate Winslet, Rainn Wilso, Anson Boon, Mia Wasikowska, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Lindsay Duncan, Roger Michell, Tear-jerkers
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday to Saturday, September 17 to 19
By Original-Cin Staff
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Special Events, TIFF Docs, Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Shiva Baby, Underplayed, Enemies of the State, Gala Presentations, Good Joe Bell, Mark Wahlberg, Gary Sinise, Connie Britton, Gay rights, Toronto filmmaker, The Truffle Hunters, Primetime, A Suitable Boy, Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, Special Presentations, Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
TIFF Tribute Awards Recap: Kinda Cool, Kinda Weird (But With Peeks into Star’s Homes!)
By Linda Barnard
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Review, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, TIFF Tribute Awards, Nomadland, Beans, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Tracy Deer, One Night in Miami…, Bruised, Terence Blanchard
Antebellum: Racist past meets micro-aggressive racist present in carelessly offensive time-hopping tale
ReviewJim SlotekAntebellum, Time hopping allegory about racism, Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz, Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Hell You Talmabout, American Utopia, David Byrne, Spike Lee, Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally., The killing of Heather Heyer, Gabourey Sidibe, Jena Malone, William Faulkner
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Wednesday, September 16
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Limbo, DIscovery, Ben Sharrock, Pieces of a Woman, Gala Presentations, Kornél Mundruczó, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Vanessa Kirby, Wavelengths, Wildfire, Fauna, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, TIFF Docs, Nicolás Pereda, Cathy Brady, Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Special Events, I Am Greta, Greta Thunberg, Nathan Grossman
