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Since 2017: Career film critics continuing the conversation

Montage: The kings of movie soundtracks play out of the box

By Liam Lacey

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 6, 2017Movie soundtracks, Classical music, Documentaries

Ireland's 'Troubles' problematically settled in a car in The Journey

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 6, 2017International politics, Terrorism, Ireland's 'Troubles', Historical films

John Hughes is alive! And he just made a Spider-Man movie!

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 6, 2017superheroes, supervillain, Marvel, Avengers

Original-Cin E X C L U S I V E !!: Lance Bass slams ‘Jim Crow against gays,’ narrates ACT UP doc at ReelHeART

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 4, 2017Documentaries, HIV AIDS, LGBTQ, Gay rights, ACT UP

'Still alive' Zappacosta's story rocks ReelHeART film fest

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 3, 2017documentaries, film festivals, reelheart international film & screenplay festival, '80s CanCon rock

On Canada Day, all hail Pinsent, the King of our many Gordons

By Liam Lacey

Jim SlotekJune 30, 2017Canada Day, Canadian actors, documentaries

More is less in Despicable Me 3

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJune 29, 2017Animation, Super villain, Kid flicks

Rom-com The Big Sick is actually a pick-me-up for the spirit

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekJune 29, 2017Romantic comedy, Standup comedy, ethnicity

What women think: The Beguiled beguiles with sexual politics

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekJune 29, 2017Civil War, Sexual politics, feminism

We say 'Oui, oui, oui!' to this not-so-little piggy named Okja

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 28, 2017Science fiction, Animal rights, children, South Korean filmmakers

Baby Driver: Set the Brain on 'Stun' and Have Fun

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekJune 28, 2017Crime, Car chases

Beaucoup de Blanchetts in exhausting intellectual exercise Manifesto

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJune 27, 2017Art film, Dadaism, philosophy

Olivier Assayas at TIFF: An inventive filmmaker's lifetime journey

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJune 27, 2017Art film, French film, Revolution-inspired art

What The Film Festival 2017: Cats, rats and apes, oh my!

By Jim Slotek

ViewsJune 23, 2017B-movies, Horror, TIFF, Midnight Madness

Defending Michael Bay, more or less

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJune 22, 2017Transformers, Robots, Sci-fi, summer blockbusters, King Arthur

Oh my God, sharks! And nitrogen bubbles in my brain!

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJune 22, 2017horror, thriller, sharks

Errol Morris' The B-Side: When a business decision ends an art form

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJune 21, 2017Photography, Polaroids, documentaries

The Bad Batch: Where 'the other white meat' roams

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJune 20, 2017post-apocalypse, cannibalism, horror, sci-fi

The Hero: Sam Elliott abides in powerful film about Hollywood and mortality

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJune 20, 2017Movies about Hollywood, Aging, Drama, Mortality

Giannini, Nero and Aiello take their act to the Italian Contemporary Film Fest

By Jim Slotek

June 17, 2017