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You Were Never Really Here: Disquieting Psychological Drama Earns its Cannes Stripes

By Liam Lacey

ReviewApril 12, 2018Lynne Ramsay, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Ames, Psychological drama, Cannes

Lean On Pete: Meandering, harrowing and not just another horse opera

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 11, 2018Horses, Horse racing, Homelessness, Poverty, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Charlie Plummer, Steve Zahn

Borg vs McEnroe: This just in, Borg secretly had a temper and McEnroe was a jerk

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 10, 2018Sports films, Swedish films, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Shia LaBeouf, Tennis movies, Wimbledon

Borg vs McEnroe: Director and Actors on Reality Story... And The Debut of One Leo Borg

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekApril 9, 2018Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, fact based drama, Janus Metz, TIFF 2017, sports movies

'You're All Wrong!': Mark Breslin & Thom Ernst revisit recent films and reaction

By Mark Breslin and Thom Ernst

ViewsJim SlotekApril 9, 2018Contrarianism, The 15:17 To Paris, Black Panther, A Wrinkle In Time, Game Night, Yuk Yuk's comedy clubs, Mark Breslin, TVO's Saturday Night At The Movies, Thom Ernst, Oprah Winfrey

Original-Cin Q&A: Director Andrew Haigh and the gritty boy-and-his-horse film Lean On Pete

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekApril 9, 2018Horse racing, Coming-of-age stories, Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, American frontier, Red state, Homelessness, Andrew Haigh

Blockers: Intriguing/Icky Premise Powers Madcap Comedy

By Kim Hughes

ReviewApril 6, 2018Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz, prom night, comedy, gross-out comedies

The Miracle Season: Clichéd, Predictable… And Totally Worth Checking Out

By Kim Hughes

ReviewApril 5, 2018young adult, sports movies, Helen Hunt, fact based drama, William Hurt

A Quiet Place: The Heart-pound of Silence

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 5, 2018Horror, Monsters, Silence, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, post-apocalypse, The Office, Sound, Actors turned director

Final Portrait: Stanley Tucci's Homage to Giacometti Stops Short of Insight

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekApril 4, 2018drama, fact based drama, stanley tucci, Armie Hammer, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Shalhoub, Alberto Giacometti

Original-Cin Interview/Review: Jim Gaffigan talks Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekApril 3, 2018Ted Kennedy, Camelot, Chappaquiddick, Joe Kennedy, Jim Gaffigan, Ed Helms, Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Historical drama, Political scandal

Original-Cin Q&A/review: Abusive vibe between two women in Allure is blisteringly dark

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekApril 2, 2018Psychological thriller, Abusive relationships, Canadian movies, Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Sarah Stone, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Westworld, Toronto International Film Festival

Original-Cin Q&A/review: Journey's End's shell-shock rings true in the PTSD era

By Liam Lacey

InterviewJim SlotekMarch 29, 2018World War I, R.C. Sherriff, Trench warfare, PTSD, Shell shock, Paul Bettany, Saul Dibb, Prince Andrew, First World War Centenary

Mary Goes Round: Dazzling Debut Feature Paints Alcoholism with Soft Brush

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMarch 28, 2018Canadian, Molly McGlynn, Aya Cash, TIFF 2017, John Ralston, Dramedy

Spielberg's Ready Player One: '80s-centric trivia-orgy is a fast-moving mess

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 28, 2018Steven Spielberg, Video game movies, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, '80s nostalgia, The Iron Giant, Fanboys, Ernest Cline, Zak Penn

Original-Cin Q&A: The Office's John Krasinski takes horror-directing plunge in A Quiet Place

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMarch 27, 2018John Krasinski, Actors turned director, The Office, Horror films, post-apocalypse, Emily Blunt, Celebrity married couples, Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck

The China Hustle: Scam 2.0 for the Wall Street larcenists post-2008

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 27, 2018Documentary, Financial meltdown, Financial Malfeasance, Jed Rothstein, Alex Gibney, Mark Cuban, Chinese investment

Midnight Sun: Schwarzenegger Offspring Adds Curb Appeal to Teen Drama

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMarch 22, 2018Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, young adult, drama, terminal illness

Pacific Rim Uprising dumbs down and takes a Power Rangers turn

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 22, 2018Pacific Rim, Jaegers, kaeju, Guillermo del Toro, Monster movies, Giant robots, John Boyega

Cat Show Documentary Scratches Ears of Feline Fanciers… As It Must

By Kim Hughes

ReviewMarch 22, 2018Cats, documentary, Canadian, CBC