Cruella: Darkly fun fashion fable about a Disney-villain-in-training, with no dogs harmed - yet
ReviewJim SlotekMovie villains' back stories, Cruella de Vil, Cruella, 101 Dalmatians, Emma Stone, Emily Beecham, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Emma Thompson, he Devil Wears Prada, Jenny Beavan, Craig Gillespie, Movies set in the fashion world
Inside Out Festival 2021: Virtually exploring intimacy in a time of separation
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekInside Out Film Festival, Themes of intimacy during lockdown, 2SLGBTQ+ themes, Language Lessons, Natalie Morales, Mark Duplass, Sexplanation, Alex Liu, Fanny: The Right to Rock, Bloodthirsty, Israeli drama Two, Mama Gloria, Ma Belle, My Beauty, Being Thunder, Sherenté Harris, Summertime, Carlos López Estrada, A Distant Place, Park Kunyoung, Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor
Wrath Of Man: Jason Statham's Killer Rent-A-Cop Delivers Deadly Force… and Worse Dialogue
ReviewJim SlotekWrath of Man, Guy Ritchie, Jason Statham, English remake, Action\, Revenge thriler, Andy Garcia, Josh Hartnett, Scott Eastwood, Heist films
Bloodthirsty: Writing and recording pop music is a beastly business
ReviewJim SlotekWerewolf movies, Canadian horror movies, Films set in the music industry, Bloodthirsty, Amelia Moses, Lauren Beatty, Michael Ironside, Eccentric superproducers, Phil Spector, Ginger Snaps, Katharine King So, Greg Bryk, Judith Buchan, Wendy Hill-Tout, Lowell
The Retreat: Gory Revenge Horror Skirts Uncomfortably Close to Easy Exploitation
ReviewJim SlotekThe Retreat, Horror movies, Pat Mills, LGBTQ, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Sarah Allen, Rossif Sutherland, Celina Sinden, Lesbian, Gay, Torture
Drunk Bus: A Wintry Comedy Stuck In Some Uncomfortable Stereotypes
Strike A Pose: Doc Follows Dancers from Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour After the Lights Dimmed
Review, PreviewJim SlotekStrike a Pose, Docuementary, Hot Docs, Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan, Madonna, Music documentaries, 1990s, Jean Paul Gauthier, Truth or Dare
Riders of Justice: Revenge movie with a soul gets Mads and gets even
By Karen Gordon
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Oxygen: Director Alexandre Aja’s Latest Offers Shallow Suspenseful Breaths
Those Who Wish Me Dead: Smokin’ Action, Wobbly Plot, With Angelina As Child-Saving Firefighter
In the Earth: Art-house virus thriller plunges into its own variant of Heart of Darkness
ReviewJim SlotekPandemic movies, Psychopaths in the woods, In the Earth, Ben Wheatley, Kill List, A Field in England, Heart of Darkness, J G Ballard’s High-Rise, Joel Fry, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia, Reece Shearsmith
Together Together: Ed Helms and Patti Harrison mesh in a bittersweet dance between a wannabe single dad and a surrogate mom
ReviewJim SlotekSurrogacy, Older man younger woman relationships, Together Together, Nikole Beckwith, Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Friends, Tig Notaro, Julio Torres, Sufe Bradshaw, The Hangover, Cedar Rapids
The Get Together: A Post-College Reunion in Austin Stirs Memories… of Similar Movies
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Get Together, Will Bakke, Michael B. Allen, Courtney Parchman, Luxy Banner, Johanna Braddy, Jacom Artist, Chad Werner, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, Coming of age stories, Comedy, Austin Texas, Dazed and Confused, American Graffiti
Drifting Snow: Well named strangers-on-a-road-trip drama explores relationships and life in wintry Prince Edward County
ReviewJim SlotekCanadian films, Prince Edward County, Relationship dramas, Drifting Snow, Ryan Noth, Sonja Smits, Jonas Bonnetta, Colin Mochrie, Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, Canadian, Canadian winter as a backdrop, Tess Girard
The Killing of Two Lovers: Gripping Family Drama Examines a Murder of a Different Sort
The Columnist: Dutch tale of a woman writer who snaps and kills online trolls is amusing but could have hit harder
ReviewJim SlotekFemale revenge movie, The Columnist, Katja Herbers, Online bullying and trolling, Der Kut Hoer, Bram van der Kelen, Ivo van Aart, Promising Young Woman, Claire Porro, Movies with offensive titles
15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot: Fun with clickbait journalists pursuing a hairy cryptid
ReviewJim SlotekMockumentaries, Bigfoot, 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot (Number 1 Will Blow Your Mind), The VICE Guide to Bigfoot, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, El Chingon, Brian Emond, Zach Lamplugh, Jeffrey Stephenson, YouTube hosts
Hot Docs #3: What To See (and Skip) at the World’s Best Documentary Festival
By Original-Cin Staff
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Duty Free: Mom-And-Me Bucket-List Adventure Lacks Depth
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekDuty Free, Documentary, Sian-Pierre Regis, Rebecca Danigelis, YOLO adventure, Road Trip, Bucket List Adventure, Mom and Son, VIFF
Tu me manques: A Bolivian father in New York seeks memories of his son in this solid adaptation of an influential gay-themed play
ReviewJim SlotekBolivian films, Oscar-contending foreign films, Tu me manques, Rodrigo Bellott, Oscar Martínez, Gay themed movies, Fernando Barbosa, Tommy Heleringer, Pedro Almodóvar, Rossy de Palma, Jose Duran, Benjamin Lukovski, Quim del Rio, Stories about playwrights, Movies with time-shifting structure
