The Half of It: Ambitious Teen Comedy Mines Sweet Spot Between Love and Identity
Original-Cin Q&A: Dan Lanigan, curator of Disney+'s Prop Culture, talks about his search for collectible Mouse droppings
By Bonnie Laufer
Read More
InterviewJim SlotekProp Culture, Disney+ TV series, Movie collectibles, Dan Lanigan, Mary Poppins, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Disney Archives, Rick Moranis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Charlie Fleischer
Tammy’s Always Dying: Hamilton-Shot Dramedy Explores Filial Love in a Time of Crisis
ReviewTammy's Always Dying, Amy Jo Johnson, Felicity Huffman, Anastasia Phillips, Clark Johnson, TIFF 2019, Hamilton, Canadian movies, Toronto, Dramedy, Black comedy
Televised Stage Performance of Fleabag is Like an Origin Story… but Awesome-r
A Secret Love: Doc about elderly same-sex couple who 'come out' after 60-plus years is literally a moving experience
ReviewJim SlotekSenior gay couples, Chris Bolan, A Secret Love, Terry Donahue, Pat Henschel, South by Southwest, Ryan Murphy, Jason Blum, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, A League of Their Own, Same sex issue documentaries
Original-Cin Q&A: Holland Taylor talks Netflix's Hollywood and listening to Patti LuPone sing through trailer walls
By Bonnie Laufer
Read More
InterviewJim SlotekHollywood Netflix series, Ryan Murphy, Glee, Ian Brennan, Period TV series, Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, Rob Reiner, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor
Hollywood: Netflix's seven-episode soap about post-WWII movie star wannabes is a lurid guilty pleasure
ReviewJim SlotekHollywood Netflix series, Rock Hudson, Jake Picking, Jim Parsons, Scotty Bowers, Glee, Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, David Corenswet, Maude Apatow, Period TV series, Dylan McDermott, Patti LuPone, Darren Criss, Peg Entwistle
Finding Sally: Riveting Doc Traces Family’s Search for a Lost Aunt… And the Truth
By Linda Barnard
Read More
Enemy Lines: Loosely fact-based save-the-scientist war story plays like a game of Capture the Flag
ReviewJim SlotekEnemy Lines, World War II, Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl, John Hannah, Pawel Delag, Save the scientist war films, Ekaterina Vladimirova, Alsos Mission, Manhattan Project, Joseph Rotblat
Original-Cin Q&A: Amy Jo Johnson on the dark comedy Tammy's Always Dying, turning Canuck and finding a perfect suicide bridge with Google Maps
By Bonnie Laufer
Read More
InterviewJim SlotekTammy's Always Dying, Amy Jo Johnson, Canadian films, Dark comedies, Joanne Sarazen, Felicity Huffman, Anastasia Phillips, Canadian Film Centre, Clark Johnson, Zach Braff
Original-Cin Q&A: An in-depth chat with star Michael Greyeyes into themes behind the Indigenous zombie horror Blood Quantum
InterviewJim SlotekJeff Barnaby, Blood Quantum, Indigenous themed zombie movie, COVID-19 effect on movies, John Ford, Fort Apache, Michael Greyeyes, Devery Jacobs, Kiowa Gordon, Forrest Goodluck, Indian Residential Schools
True North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball - NFB film removes the sugar-coating from 'We The North' boosterism
ReviewJim SlotekTrue North: Inside the Rise of Toronto Basketball, NFB free streaming movies, Sports documentaries, Hoop Dreams, Steve Nash, Damon Stoudamire, Ryan Sidhoo, Elijah Fisher, Keone Davis, Cordell Veira, U.S. Division 1 NCAA, Sports sponsorships, Cory Joseph, Toronto Raptors
Your weekend-less guide: What to watch that's NOT in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekStreamed movie roundups, The Willoughbys, Animated kids comedy, Gothic lite children's entertainment, Martin Short, Will Forte, Extraction, Chris Hemsworth, They Call Us Warriors, 24 Davids, Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans, 9/11 Kids, Elizabeth St. Philiip, Never Have I Ever., Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Original-Cin Q&A: First-time actor, Mississauga's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, talks about starring in new Mindy Kaling series
By Bonnie Laufer
Read More
InterviewJim SlotekNever Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, The Mindy Project, The Office, Teen comedy series, Netflix, Lang Fisher, Immigrant experience, First-gen children of immigrants
24 Davids: Quirky and thought-provoking NFB doc seeks people named Dave, whom you may not know, but should
By Linda Barnard
Read More
Extraction: Aussie mercenary Chris Hemsworth also plays one in an empty, bombastic Netflix action film
ReviewJim SlotekExtraction, Chris Hemsworth, Sam Hargrave, Joe Russo, Graphic novel based adventures, Netflix movies, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Pankaj Tripathi, Priyanshu Painyuli, Golshifteh Farahani, David Harbour, Stranger Things, Netflix
Planet of the Humans: Michael Moore Cohort Charts Enviro-Disaster with Mixed Results
They Call Us Warriors: True tale of Venezuela's 2016 Women's Under-17 football is an underdog story with geopolitics
9/11 Kids: Hot Docs film on CBC follows the adult lives of a Grade 2 class who were symbols of terrorist trauma
By Linda Barnard
Read More
The Willoughbys: Child neglect and parent-killing schemes provides oddly fun fodder for bored, quarantined kids
ReviewJim SlotekThe Willoughbys, Lois Lowry, The Giver, Dark children's comedies, Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket’s Daniel Handler, Vancouver's BRON animation, Ricky Gervais, Martin Short, Jane Krakowski, Kris Pearn, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Will Forte, Alessia Cara, Seán Cullen, Maya Rudolph, Rob Lodermeier, Mark Stanleigh
