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Since 2017: Career film critics continuing the conversation

Al Gore: 'The world is saying, we'll show you, Donald Trump!'

By Bonnie Läufer Krebs

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 31, 2017documentaries, Environmental issues, Global warming, politics

Lou Gossett Jr.: A jokester and a gentleman

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 28, 2017African-American Oscar winners, kid-flicks, racism

Atomic Blonde: Charlize gets her kicks in MI6

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 27, 2017Espionage, Action, Cold War

Sex, death and a dangerous Victorian mouseburger in Lady Macbeth

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 26, 2017Period films, Victorian, Classical erotica

UNSPOOLED: With Mark Breslin and Thom Ernst

ViewsJim SlotekJuly 26, 2017Comedy, film commentary, summer blockbusters

TIFF: Honey, they shrunk the festival!

By Liam Lacey

ViewsJim SlotekJuly 25, 2017TIFF, Awards season, Foreign films

Girls Trip: Gross-Out Guffaws In the name of Everlasting Sisterhood

Girls Trip: Gross-Out Guffaws In the name of Everlasting Sisterhood

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJuly 21, 2017comedy, bad behaviour, gross-out

The Black Prince: Majestic Costumes But Pacing, Acting Fit For Serfs

The Black Prince: Majestic Costumes But Pacing, Acting Fit For Serfs

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJuly 21, 2017Period films, Victorian England, Colonial India

DUNKIRK: Christopher Nolan's Clockwork War Binge

DUNKIRK: Christopher Nolan's Clockwork War Binge

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJuly 21, 2017World War II, action-adventure, Military history

a ghost story: contemplative film exploring death both affecting and beautiful

a ghost story: contemplative film exploring death both affecting and beautiful

By Karen Gordon

Review, InterviewJuly 20, 2017suspense, Supernatural, Mortality

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets: beaucoup de grésille, pas de steak

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets: beaucoup de grésille, pas de steak

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJuly 20, 2017Science fiction, space opera, French film

DAVID LOWERY INTERVIEW: Director mines grief and comedy with edgy indie A GHOST STORY

DAVID LOWERY INTERVIEW: Director mines grief and comedy with edgy indie A GHOST STORY

By Liam Lacey

InterviewJuly 20, 2017David Lowery, A Ghost Story, Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara

Ape-ocalypse Now!: War For The Planet Of The Apes goes full Kurtz

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 12, 2017Science fiction, Blockbusters, Planet Of The Apes, post-apocalypse

The Little Hours: Forsooth a harmless jape, less than the sum of its cast

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 11, 2017Comedy, Medieval, Funny or Die, History

13 Minutes: Nazis still evil, torture still horrible

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 7, 2017World War II, Drama, Hitler assassination plots

That bizarre Rosedale home : Integral Man contemplates life, art and architecture

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 6, 2017documentary, architecture, mathematics, classical music

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