Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood: Bisexual secrets of everyone from Tracy & Hepburn to the Duke & Duchess
ReviewJim SlotekScotty Bowers, Secret Hollywood sex lives, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Matt Tyrnauer, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Stephen Fry, Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Documentaries
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda is a joyous ode to sound and a soundtrack-guru's life
ReviewJim SlotekRyuichi Sakamoto, Stephen Nomura Schible, Fukushima disaster, Cancer, documentaries, Sofia Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Bowie, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Revenant, Alejandro G Inarritu
Oh Bother!: Disney's Christopher Robin in limbo between dewy-eyed innocence-lost and wannabe family fare
ReviewJim SlotekTags Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, A.A. Milne, Jim Cummings, Paul Winchell, Tigger, Disney, Ewan McGregor, Revisiting childhood, Hundred Acre Wood, Marc Forster
Spy Who Dumped Me: 'Best friends' action comedy is really an out-of-control one-woman show
ReviewJim SlotekMila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Spy comedies, female action comedies, Justin Theroux, Susanna Fogel, Gillian Anderson, Saturday Night Live, CIA, Jason Bourne
The Darkest Minds sets the bar on dystopian teenager-killing movies even lower
ReviewJim SlotekYoung adult novels, The Darkest Minds, Divergent, The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Super powers, Dystopian stories, Dystopian fiction, Bradley Whitford, Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Searching: Ace Thriller Asks Timely Questions about Digital-Age Identity, Privacy
TIFF 2018: An eco-legacy fulfilled, an aboriginal lacrosse tale and new films from Dolan and Arcand
ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2018, Rob Stewart, Sharkwater Extinction, Xavier Dolan, Denys Arcand, Canadian films, Aboriginal films, Patricia Rozema, Don McKellar, Ron Mann, Jennifer Baichwal, Ed Burtynsky, Anthropocene
Original-Cin Q&A: Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger too!)
InterviewJim SlotekWinnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, A.A. Milne, Jim Cummings, Paul Winchell, Tigger, Disney, Ewan McGregor, Revisiting childhood, Hundred Acre Wood, Marc Forster
Blindspotting: Ambitious Dramedy A Smart (if Messy) Look at Race and Class
Shock and Awe: Iraq War Newspaper Drama Meanders and Fizzles
Original-Cin Q&A: Lauren Greenfield Spies our Superficial Souls in Doc Generation Wealth
Mission: Impossible - Fallout: An action-film greatest-hits of death-defying, always-escapable predicaments
Original-Cin Q&A: Simon Pegg on Cruise's action-jones, 'It's easy to dismiss it as insane'
By Bonnie Laufer
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TIFF announcements 2018: Ryan Gosling walks on the moon!
ViewsJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival, Film festivals, Cannes, Foreign films, Oscar winning films, Damian Chazelle, Barry Jenkins, Patricia Rozema, Beautiful Boy, Life Itself
Streaming Site MUBI Screens Best (and Bleakest) of Emerging Canuck Cinema
Views, ReviewMUBI, streaming service, Canadian film, Werewolf, Mass for Shut-ins, How Heavy This Hammer, The Stairs, Still Night, Still Light, Maison du bonheur
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Same Old but with ABBA Songs So What’s Not to Love?
The Equalizer 2: Lame Sequel Ramps Ups the Action, Dumbs Down the Premise
Hot Docs Weekend Roundup: Nazi Film Trove Revealed, Chinese Hero Shortchanged
Eighth Grade: A YouTube-age girl's touching voyage through pre-high-school hell
By Karen Gordon
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Under the Tree: Icelanders behaving badly makes for dark, deranged social satire
