Doc your world!: Some cool, eclectic non-fiction to be streamed from farther-flung corners
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekStreaming movies during COVID-19, The American Nurse, Carolyn Jones, Kim Kardashian-West: The Justice Project, www.hayu.com, U.S. incarceration rates, Shakedown, Los Angeles black lesbian strip bar, The Whitney Museum, Pornhub, Ronnie-Ron, Caniba, Criterion Channel, Issei Sagawa, Renée Hartevelt, Cannibal murder, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Saigon Metalhood: Vietnam’s Heaviest Story, Vimeo, Spinal Tap, Trung Thanh, Trung Loki, Hysterical Buffalo
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art - a grade A dissection of one of America's biggest art scams
ReviewJim SlotekHot Docs International Film Festival, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Barry Avrich, Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, Art fraud, Documentaries, Events postponed due to caronavirus, Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, M. Knoedler & Co, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louvre, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Maria Konnikova, The Confidence Game, Domenico di Sole, Sotheby's
The 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival: Carrying on, in theory
PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival., Events postponed due to caronavirus, Documentaries, CBC, MADE YOU LOOK: A True Story About Fake Art, Barry Avrich, Elizabeth St. Philip, 9/11 KIDS, Liz Marshall, Meat the Future, They Call Me Dr. Miami, Jean-Simon Chartier, Lord Tim Bell, Influence, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, Hong Kong Moments, Bing Zhou, Larry Flynt for President
Original-Cin Q&A: Jeopardy! G.O.A.T. Ken Jennings talks his new game show and his trivia Achilles Heel (hockey)
By Bonnie Laufer
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Your week-endless preview: What to watch that’s NOT in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekStreamed movie roundups, Original-Cin, National Film Board, First Stripes, Jean-François Caissy, Mitch Azaria, Tripping The Rideau Canal, TVOntario, Alan Yang, Tigertail, Master of None, Asian American experience, What Love Looks Like?, Romantic comedies, Alex Magaña, Love Wedding Repeat, Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn, Quibi, Streaming services, Jeffrey Katzenberg
What Love Looks Like: Light 'n' breezy L.A.-Based Episodic Romance Buoyed by Strong Performances
Love Wedding Repeat: Silly Romcom Checks the Predictable Boxes But Falls Flat
Tigertail: Surprisingly Heavy Drama about Midlife Minefields from Comedy Creator
Original-Cin Q&A: Comedy creator Alan Yang does drama and the Asian-American experience with Netflix feature directorial debut Tigertail
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg Talks New Streaming App Just for Phones
By Bonnie Laufer
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Bacurau: Oddball Brazilian Western Gorefest Spins Heads, Supports Local Theatres
Review, PreviewBacurau, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juliano Dornelles, TIFF 2019, Cannes, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Barbara Colen, Brazilian, Western, Sci-fi, Portuguese
We can still watch movies together, sort of. Here are a couple of ways
PreviewJim SlotekMovies during COVID-19 quarantine, Focus Pictures, Facebook’s Watch Party, Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes, Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Mallrats, Kevin Smith, Pawel Pawlikowski, My Summer of Love, Entertainment Industry Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund, Kino Lober, Bacurau, Fundraising for movie exhibitors
TRIPPING the Rideau Canal: Picture yourself in a boat on the Rideau - for four strangely soothing hours
Interview, ReviewJim SlotekReal-time documentary television, Mitch Azaria, TRIPPING the Rideau Canal, Rideau Canal locks, Manotick Ontario, Ambient television, Mood on Demand, TVOntario, Jane Jankovic
First Stripes: New addition to NFB's free streaming archive spotlights how Canadians do boot camp
By Linda Barnard
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Your Weekend Preview: What to Watch That’s NOT in the Theatres
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewWeekly Roundup, Toronto Public Library, hoopla, kanopy, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Coffee & Kareem, James vs His Future Self, Amazon Prime, French Resistance
Coffee & Kareem: Netflix movie is even worse (much worse) than the pun in its title
ReviewJim SlotekCoffee & Kareem, Interracial cop buddy comedies, Action movies with kids, Michael Dowse, Ed Helms, Shane Mack, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Taraji P. Henson), RonReaco Lee, David Alan Grier, Betty Gilpin, GLOW, Netflix movies
Amazon Prime Video: We offer up some faves while awaiting delivery of that package
ReviewJim SlotekSelf-isolation, Streamed entertainment, Amazon Prime, The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner, Minority Report, Red Dawn, Rufus Sewell, The Boys, Super-heroes as fascist fantasy, Antony Starr, Homelander, Transparent, Jill Soloway, Jeffrey Tambor, I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, Kathryn Hahn, Griffin Dunne, Kevin Bacon, Blow the Man Down, Bridget Savage Cole, Morgan Saylor, Sophie Lowe, June Squibb, Annette O'Toole, Martindale, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, Joan Rivers, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Alex Borstein, Kevin Pollak, Tony Shalhoub, Luke Kirby, Lenny Bruce
Never Rarely Sometimes Always: Assured Indie Film Quietly Ponders Hard Choices
By Karen Gordon
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Resistance: Clumsy Marcel Marceau Biopic Stupendously Mishandles… Everything
Review, PreviewBiopic, Drama, WWII, Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramirez, Marcel Marceau, Jonathan Jakubowicz, iTunes movies, Nazi, French Resistance
James vs His Future Self: Time-travel themed Canadian rom-com plays out the clock nicely enough
ReviewJim SlotekJames vs His Future Self, Canadian movies, Time travel movies, Jeremy LaLonde, The Go-Getters, Jonas Chernick, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Cleopatra Coleman, Frances Conroy, Daniel Stern
