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Mary Queen of Scots: Period Drama Aces the Details but Offers Scant Sizzle

By Kim Hughes

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ReviewDecember 11, 2018Mary Queen of Scots, Period piece, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Josie Rourke, female directorsComment
What to See (And What to Skip) In Theatres This Weekend
ReviewJim SlotekDecember 7, 2018The Favourite, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, The Go-Getters, Jeremy Lalonde, Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Anna and the Apocalypse, Ella Hunt, Almost Almost Famous, Celebrity impersonators, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger AilesComment
Award-season favourite The Favourite: A brilliant blend of Restoration comedy and arch political satire

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 6, 2018The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Deborah Davies, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weiss, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Queen Anne, Lady Sarah Churchill, Abigail Masham, The War of Spanish Succession, Robert Harley, Jonathan Swift, Robbie Ryan, Sandy PowellComment
Anna and the Apocalypse: Zombie High School Christmas Musical (Need We Say More?)

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewDecember 6, 2018Anna and the Apocalypse, Zombies, Musical, High School, Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Ben Wiggins, John McPhail, Ryan McHenry, Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cerealComment
PODCAST! Ep. 3 - The critics were wrong about Bohemian Rhapsody (or so say some of us!)
PodcastJim SlotekDecember 5, 2018Movie podcasts, Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, The Go-Getters, Canadian comedies, Woody Allen, Holiday Season movies, Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, Bonnie Laufer, Karen Gordon, Jim Slotek, The Favourite, Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weiss Comments
Searching for Ingmar Bergman: Insightful Doc Puts Gentle Lens on Influential Director

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewDecember 4, 2018Jean-Claude Carrière, Carlos Saura, Mia Hansen-Løve, Olivier Assayas, documentary, Ingmar Bergman, Margarethe von Trotta, TIFF 2018Comment
Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, a standard doc about a lonely, insecure GOP "fixer"

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 4, 2018Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, Alexis Bloom, Roger Ailes, Fox News, Donald Trump, Glenn Beck, John Lithgow, Russell Crowe, Republican politicsComment
Almost Almost Famous: Tribute Act Doc Probes What it Means to Be Someone Else

By Kim Hughes

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ReviewDecember 4, 2018documentary, Canadian movies, Barry Lank, Music, Tribute Acts, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackie Wilson, Buddy Holly, Hot DocsComment
The Go-Getters: How low can you go for a laugh? Find out here

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekDecember 4, 2018The Go-Getters, F-bombs, Dark comedy, Aaron Abrams, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Jeremy Lalonde, Brendan Gall, James Cade, Street people, Prostitution, Canadian movies, Canadian comediesComment
Your Weekend Film Round-Up: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres

By Original-Cin Staff

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Preview, ReviewNovember 30, 2018Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Nothing Like A Dame, Weekly Roundup, Tiger, Clara, Movie podcasts, Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon, Bonnie Laufer, Roger Michell, Barry AvrichComment
Dead in a Week or Your Money Back: Promptly dead on delivery

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 30, 2018Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back, Tom Wilkinson, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Edmunds, Gangster comedies, Freya Mavor, Guy Ritchie, Suicide, Gunplay, HitmenComment
Tiger: A Tame Take on an Actual Canadian Sports Triumph

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 29, 2018Janel Parrish, Canadian film, Mickey Rourke, drama, boxing, Alister Grierson, Michael Pugliese, Prem Singh, Marshall Manesh, Michael 'Mick' Harrity, Liam LaceyComment
PODCAST! Ep. 2 - Yes to Roma! Hooray for Dames! Death to cellphone users!
PodcastJim SlotekNovember 29, 2018Movie podcasts, Original-Cin, Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey, Karen Gordon, Bonnie Laufer, Roma, Alfonso Cuarón, Nothing Like A Dame, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Netflix, Oscar race, Clara, Akash Sherman, Cellphones in theatresComment
Prosecuting Evil: The last Nuremberg prosecutor continues to fight inhumanity at 99

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 29, 2018Ben Ferencz, Nuremberg Trials, International Criminal Court, Einsatzgruppen, Barry Avrich, Prosecuting Evil, Alan Dershowitz, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Donald TrumpComment
Nothing Like A Dame: 'Mags,' 'Jude' et al dish deliciously about stage history

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 28, 2018Tea With The Dames, Nothing Like A Dame, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Joan Plowright, Dame Eileen Atkins, Laurence Olivier, Roger Michell, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, British theatre legends, Franco ZeffirelliComment
Roma: Gravity Director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gripping Drama Finds Focus in Family

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewNovember 28, 2018TIFF 2018, Alfonso Cuarón, Roma, Black and white, Award winner, Yalitza Aparicio, Nancy Garcia, Fernando Grediaga, Marina de TaviraComment
Original-Cin Review/Q&A: Clara Filmmaker Shoots for the Stars (and Mostly Reaches ‘Em, Too)

By Jim Slotek

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Review, InterviewNovember 27, 2018Clara, TIFF 2018, Canadian film, Romance, Patrick J. Adams, Troian Bellisario, Science fiction, The Big Bang Theory, Ennis Esmer, Film Student, Akash Sherman Comment
Your weekend film round-up: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekNovember 23, 2018Ralph Breaks The Internet, John C Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Robin Hood, Aaron Egerton, The Wild Pear Tree, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Julian Schnabel, Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate, Border, Swedish films, Let the Right One In, The Drawer Boy, Michael HealeyComment
Border: Part art-film, part-creature feature from author of Let the Right One In

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekNovember 23, 2018Border, Ali Abbasi, Un Certain Regard, Cannes, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In, Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Sweden's Oscar submissionComment
The Drawer Boy: Celluloid Take on Acclaimed Stage Play Registers Hits and Misses

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewNovember 22, 2018The Drawer Boy, Canadian movies, Michael Healey, Toronto, Of Mice and Men, adaptation, Arturo Pérez Torres, Aviva Armour-OstrComment
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