Power Ballad: Paul Rudd/Nick Jonas Song-Stealing Comedy is All Heart (and a Little Vinegar)
Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Woody Guthrie Bio is a Toronto Jewish Film Fest Stand-Out
Review, PreviewJim SlotekToronto Jewish Film Festival 2026, Opening night film, Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie, This Land is Your Land, This Machine Kills Fascists, Folkways Records, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, The Boys and Other Snapshots of Jew-ish Toronto, The Safe House, Holofiction
Masters of the Universe: Hey He-Man! Flash Gordon Would Like His Movie Back
ReviewJim Slotek'80s kid heroes based on toys, He-Man, Masters of the Universe, Queen guitarist Brian May, Nicholas Galitzine, Jared Leto as Skeletor, Idris Elba, Alison Brie, Kristen Wiig, Camila Mendes
Affection: Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings
ReviewJim SlotekAffection, Horror, Body horror, Psychological drama, Thriller, Drama, B.T. Meza, Jessica Rothe, Joseph Cross, Julianna Layne
Pressure: That Time During WWII When Weathermen Were the Heroes
ReviewJim SlotekPressure, WWII, Drama, Anthony Maras, David Haig, Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Damian Lewis, Chris Messina, Kerry Condon, D-Day, War film, Historical drama
Tuner: Love Hurts, But Sound Hurts Even More in this Powerful, Personal Thriller
Muscle Beach: An Indie Film Set in the Faded Bodybuilding Mecca
ReviewJim SlotekMuscle Beach, Indie, Drama, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Ike Catcher, bodybuilding, California, Farley Jackson, Kirk Baltz, Lindsey Normington
Twenty-Four Films Later, My First Cannes Festival Ends on an Emotional High
By Carol J. Bream
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Spider-Noir: Nic Cage Revels in the Role of Your Friendly Neighbourhood Sam Spade Spidey
ReviewJim SlotekMarvel, Prime Video, Tales taken from the Spider-Verse, Spider-Noir, Nicolas Cage, Li Jun Li, Jack Huston, Abraham Popoola, Writer/show-runner Oren Uziel, Stories from the '30s, Colour and black-and-white streaming options
The Boroughs: Fun Netflix Miniseries Pits Retirees Against a Mysterious Monster
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekHorror/comedy/thriller series, The Boroughs, Stories set in seniors communities, The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things, Mysterious monster, Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Denis O'Hare, Clarke Peters, Alfre Woodard, Ed Begley Jr., Bill Pullman
Passenger: Like Nomadland with Slasher Deaths and a Surplus of Jump-Scares
Original-Cin at Cannes: Eight Films That Confirm Audiences Win Some, Lose Some
By Carol J. Bream
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ReviewJim SlotekCannes 2026, Cannes International Film Festival, The Beloved, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Victoria Luengo, Javier Bardem, Paper Tiger, Miles Teller, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, James Gray, Sheep in the Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Another Day, Jeanne Herry, Fjord, Cristian Mungiu, The Meltdown, Manuela Martelli, Moulin, Laszlo Nemes, Nicolas Winding Refn, Her Private Hell
The Last Anniversary: A Demon-possessed, Apocalyptic Big Chill on a Budget
ReviewJim SlotekCanadian films, Horror, Apocalypse films, The Last Anniversary, Young adult reunion themes, Jesse McQueen, Kenneth Northfield, Jenna Vittoria, Directed by Brett and Jason Butler, Demonic ghosts, Revenge
The Mandalorian and Grogu: May the Schmaltz Be With You, and in IMAX No Less
Original-Cin at Cannes: Ten Films Seen Amid Well-Organized Madness
By Carol J. Bream
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ReviewJim SlotekCannes Film Festival 2026, Le Palais des Festivals, Guillermo del Toro, The Electric Kiss, Pio Marmaï, Nagi Notes, Kôji Fukada, A Woman’s Life, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, Fatherland, Sandra Hüller, Parallel Tales, Asghar Farhadi, Isabelle Huppert, Tangles, Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun, John Lennon: The Last Interview, Steven Soderbergh
Obsession: A Horror Film You Just Have To (No, Really Must) See
Silent Friend: Beautifully Shot Time-Travelling Drama Connects Eras and Imaginations
Cold War 1994: Stellar Trilogy of Hong Kong Pre-Handover Power Struggle Evolves
ReviewJim SlotekCold War 1994, Trilogy of Hong Kong Pre-Handover Power Struggle, Director Longman Leung Lok-Man, Hong Kong as de facto character, Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok, Daniel Wu, Tse Kwan-Ho, Terrance Lau, Aidan Gillen
Mārama: Māori Meets Brontë in a Vivid Anti-Colonial Payback Drama
ReviewJim SlotekMārama, TIFF '25, Taratoa Stappard, Ariana Osborne, Evelyn Towersey, Toby Stephens, Erroll Shand, Umi Myers, Jordan Mooney, Gothic drama, Maori, British Colonialism, Period drama
Marty, Life is Short: It Can Also Be Sweet, as Short Himself Proves by Example
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekCelebrity biography documentariees, Marty, Life Is Short, Netflix, Director Lawrence Kasdan, Hamilton to Toronto to L.A., Godspell, Eugene Levy, Nancy Dolman, Gilda Radner, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, Steve Martin, Celebrity families socializing, John Mulaney
