Jojo Rabbit: Lightness and sweetness that doesn't flinch in the face of horror-as-normality
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekJojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi, TIFF Grolsch People's Choice Award, Caging Skies novel, Christine Leunens, Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Comedies with Nazi themes, Comical portrayals of Hitler, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell
Pain and Glory: An older Almodovar dials it down a notch for a touching and evocative redemption tale
ReviewJim SlotekPedro Almodóvar, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pain and Glory, Antonio Banderas, Fellini’s 8 ½, Penélope Cruz, Nora Navas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Awards season films, Creative blockage
By the Grace of God: Francois Ozon's docudrama is a psychological deep-dive into the lives of church abuse survivors
ReviewJim SlotekFrancois Ozon, By the Grace of God, 8 Women, Under the Sand, Swimming Pool, Berlin Film Festival Grand Jury Winner, Church sex abuse scandals, Lyon France, Abbot Bernard Preyat, Melvil Poupaud, Cardinal Barbarin, François Marthouret, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
April in Autumn: The prodigal daughter comes home to some good ol' home-cooked Canadian ennui
ReviewJim SlotekApril in Autumn, Caitlyn Sponheimer, Oscar Moreno, Sandra Pascuzzi, Elizabeth Stuart-Morris, Canadian family dramas, Jimmy Limb, Warren Sulatycky, Mike Sniezek, Constantine Pavlou, Melancholy tone of Canadian movies
Zombieland: Double Tap - A hilarious splash of 'who cares?' in a world full of zombie apocalypses
ReviewJim SlotekZombieland: Double Tap, Zombieland, Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don't Die, Zombie comedies, Long delayed sequels, The Walking Dead, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Jesse Eisenberg, T-800 Terminator, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Zoey Deutch, Rosario Dawson, Ruben Fleischer
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil - More half-baked Marvel-esque apocalypse than Disney fairytale
ReviewJim SlotekMaleficent: Mistress of Evil, Maleficent, Angelina Jolie, Sleeping Beauty, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elle Fanning, Harris Dicknson, Disney fairytales, Linda Woolverton, Robert Lindsay, Sam Riley, Joachim Rønning
The King: Cinematic mashup of Shakespeare's 'Henrys' makes for thoughtful - albeit long - drama about why we make war
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe King, David Michôd, Joel Edgerton, Shakespeare's Henriad, Shakespearean movies, Timothée Chalamet, Ben Mendelsohn, Sir John Falstaff, Dean-Charles Chapman, William Gascoigne, The Battle of Agincourt, Sean Harris, Lily Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson
Parasite: Bong Joon Ho tackles the one per cent in a gloriously amoral, darkly-funny fraud fable
ReviewJim SlotekParasite, Bong Joon Ho, Cannes Palme D'or, Joker, Snowpiercer, The Host, Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-sik, Park So-dam, Lee Sun-kyun, Jo Yeo-jeong, Korean cinema, Award season favourites, Social disparity, Dark comedies
Your weekend preview: What to see (and what to skip) in the theatres
Jim SlotekWeek's movies in review, Harpoon, Brett Gelman, Blood Simple, Shallow Grave, The Addams Family, Gemini Man, Will Smith, Ang Lee, Lucy in the Sky, Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Rendezvous With Madness, Geoff Pevere
Dolce Fine Giornata: Meaty European Drama a Feast for Thinkers and Adults
ReviewDolce Fine Giortana, Jacek Borcuch, Krystyna Janda, Antonio Catania, Lorenzo de Moor, Kasia Smutniak, European, Polish films, italian movies, Drama
Harpoon: Ace (and Deservedly Hyped) Indie Horror Film Knocks it Out of the Park
The Addams Family: Animated kid-flick fails on creepy, kooky, spooky and ooky levels
ReviewJim SlotekThe Addams Family, Animated children's films, Charles Addams, Hotel Transylvania, Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston, Lurch, Cousin Itt, Snoop Dogg, Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Conrad Vernon, Chloe Grace Moretz, Elsie Fisher, Finn Wolfhard, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Gnome Alone, Charming, Cinesite animation
Rendezvous with Madness: Long-running Mental-Health Themed Festival Timelier Than Ever
Interview, Preview, Review, ViewsRendezvous With Madness, Geoff Pevere, Conviction, Retrospekt, Bedlam, Mental health issues, documentaries, Dramas, Toronto film festivals, Festival
Gemini Man: Ang Lee Actioner Has Will Smith Times Two But Single-Digit Thrills
Lucy in the Sky: Natalie Portman Space Drama Grounded by Ridiculous Plot
Preview, ReviewLucy in the Sky, TIFF 2019, Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Ellen Burstyn, Noah Hawley, NASA, Space adventure, Zazie Beetz, Reese Witherspoon
Original-Cin Q&A: Ang Lee talks Gemini Man, Will Smith and advice for his younger self
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekAng Lee, Will Smith, Gemini Man, "Twin" roles, Digital de-aging technology, Weta Digital, 3D films, Increased frame-rate, 120 frames per second, Netflix films, Movie Q&As
Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres This Week
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJoker, The Laundromat., Robbery, Sometimes Always Never, Roger Waters Us + Them, Where’s My Ray Cohn?, First Love, Weekly Roundup, TIFF 2019
First Love: Provocateur Takashi Miike serves up betrayal, vengeance, and murder in his most crowd-pleasing film
Robbery: Half-cooked heist film can't keep its eyes - or its plot - on the prize
ReviewJim SlotekRobbery, Canadian movies, Feature debut, Corey Stanton, Jeremy Ferdman, Art Hindle, Rachel Wilson, Sera-Lys McArthur, Jennifer Dale, Father-son crime films, Caper films
The Laundromat: Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers Tale Mines Sadly Familiar Terrain
ReviewThe Laundromat., TIFF 2019, Steven Soderbergh, Scott Z Burns, Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, David Schwimmer, James Cromwell, Jeffrey Wright, Matthias Schoenaerts
