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High Life: Claire Denis’s Clinical-Spiritual Vision of Fallen Bodies

By Liam Lacey

ReviewApril 18, 2019High Life, Claire Denis, TIFF 2018, Robert Pattison, Juliette Binoche, Science fiction, female directors, André Benjamin, Jessie RossComment

The Curse of La Llorona: A Really Bad Mujer From Mexico

By Liam Lacey

ReviewApril 18, 2019The Curse of La Llorona, Raymond Cruz, Horror, Conjure universe, Mexico, James Wan, Michael Chaves, Linda Cardellini, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol RamirezComment

Teen Spirit: A star is bored

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 18, 2019No Doubt, Just a Girl, Teen Spirit, Max Minghella, Ella Fanning, The Isle of Wight, Agnieszka Grochowska, Reality-TV talent shows, Zlatko BuricComment

Original-Cin interview: The producer and director of The Grizzlies talk airfare to Nunavut, Graham Yost and flipping the white-saviour-teacher trope

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekApril 17, 2019The Grizzlies, Alethea Arnaquqa-Baril, Angry Inuk, Iqaluit, Miranda de Pencier, Russ Sheppard, Ben Schnetzer, Paul Nutarariaq, Indigenous youth lacrosse, KugluktukComment

Penguins: Does Disney really need to double-down on the cute when the subject is penguins?

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekApril 17, 2019Penguins, DisneyNature, Antarctic, Adalie Penguins, Ed Helms, Anthropomorphized documentaries, Children's documentaries, Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson, Blue Planet, Our PlanetComment

What to Watch (and What to Skip) in Theatres This Weekend

Stratford on Film: Martha Henry's Prospero softens a Shakespearean grand-old-man role

By Liam Lacey

Jim SlotekApril 12, 2019Martha Henry, Prospero, The Tempest, Stratford on Film, Miranda, Antoni Cimolino, Mamie Zwettler, Andre Morin, Caliban, Michael BlakeComment

Original-Cin Q&A: The director of Missing Link talks physical comedy, stop-motion and British colonial villains

By Jim Slotek

Missing Link: Around the world with a 600-pound primate - Laika's latest is a light, stop-motion romp

By Jim Slotek

Master Z: Ip Man Legacy - Old-school Hong Kong gangland crime with jolting fight sequences

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekApril 11, 2019Ip Man, Bruce Lee, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, Yuen Woo-ping, Max Zhang, Liu Yan, Dave Bautista, Michelle Yeoh, Kevin Cheng, Chrissie ChauComment

Hellboy: Boy, this is one hellish reboot!

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 11, 2019Hellboy, David Harbour, Neil Marshall, Milla Jovovich, Daniel Dae Kim, Ian McShane, Ron Perlman, Guillermo del Toro, Mike Mignola, Sasha LaneComment

Little: Something a 10-year-old might come up with after seeing Big - and it was!

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekApril 11, 2019Little, Regina Hall, Issa Rae, Luke James, Big, Tracee Ellis Ross, Marsai Martin, Blackish, Kenya Barris, Tina Gordon, Tracy Oliver, Girls Trip, Mikey Day, Eva Carlton, Adult in kids body plotComment

Amazing Grace: Long “Lost” Doc Locates Aretha Franklin at the Height of her Powers

By Liam Lacey

ReviewApril 11, 2019Aretha Franklin, Reverend James Cleveland, Sidney Pollack, C.L. Franklin, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones, Documentary, Alan Elliott, Music documentaries, Alexander Hamilton, Exile on Main Street Comment

Original-Cin Q&A: Stranger Things' David Harbour is the new Hellboy in town

InterviewJim SlotekApril 11, 2019Hellboy, David Harbour, Neil Marshall, Milla Jovovich, Daniel Dae Kim, Ian McShane, Ron Perlman, Guillermo del Toro, Mike Mignola, Joel Harlow, Hollywood makeup storiesComment

PODCAST! Ep. 19: 'Avengers junketeers assemble!' We talk movie junkets

By Jim Slotek, Kim Hughes, Karen Gordon and Liam Lacey

PodcastJim SlotekApril 10, 2019Avengers: Endgame, Movie junkets, Robert Downey Jr., Movie podcasts, Hellboy, Little, Far. The Story of a Journey Around the World, Missing Link, The Best of Enemies, Mary Magdalene, Stockholm, The Brink, Mia and the White LionComment

Far. The Story of a Journey Around the World: An incredible, feel-good hitchhiking achievement

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 10, 2019Far. The Story of a Journey Around the World, Patrick Allgaier, Gwendolin Weisser, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Irkutsk, Mexico, German documentary, Central America Comment

The Best of Enemies: TV movie-ish tale of how a Klan leader's heart grew three sizes one day

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 10, 2019The Best of Enemies, Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Taraji P. Henson, Durham, North Carolina, School segregation, Ku Klux Klan, Wes Bentley, Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche, Robin BissellComment

Mary Magdalene: Female-Led Bible Story Beats the Odds, Brings the Goods

By Kim Hughes

ReviewApril 10, 2019Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Bible stories, Mary Magdalene, Jesus Christ, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Easter, Garth Davis, Tahar RahimComment

Mia and the White Lion: Real-Time Coming of Age Tale Has Big Cats, Meerkats… and Deep Messages

By Kim Hughes

ReviewApril 10, 2019Mia and the White Lion, Daniah De Villiers, Melanie Laurent, Langley Kirkwood, Ryan Mac Lennan, Coming-of-age stories, Family films, Lions, Animals, Gilles de Maistre Comments

Stockholm: Ethan Hawke Comic Thriller Is a (Ahem) Slog Day Afternoon

By Liam Lacey

ReviewApril 9, 2019Christopher Heyerdahl, Shanti Roney, Thorbjørn Harr, Bea Santos, Mark Elov, Robert Budreau, Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, fact-based drama, Canadian, Born to Be Blue, Dog Day Afternoon, DerivitiveComment