Stratford's Free Shakespeare Festival: All The World's A Screen
PreviewJim SlotekStratford on Film, Stage plays streamed during quarantine, Streamed Shakespeare, King Lear, Colm Feor, Stephen Ouimette', Macbeth, Ian Lake, Krysten Pellerin, The Tempest, Martha Henry, Timon of Athens, Joseph Ziegler, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Jonathan Goad, King John, Tom McCamus, Graham Abbey, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Evan Buliung, Anthony and Cleopatra., Geraint Wyn Davies, Yanna McIntosh, Romeo and Juliet, Antoine Yared, Sara Farb, The Taming of the Shrew, Ben Carson, Deborah Hay
Netflix: Why debut a show called Trial By Media when Tiger King is already trial-by-media?
ViewsJim SlotekTiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Netflix, Carole Baskin, Big Cat Rescue, Joe Exotic, Milli Vanilli, Eric Goode, Rebecca Chaiklin, Class derision, Trial by Media, George Clooney, Jerry Springer, Jenny Jones, Jonathan Schmitz, Scott Amedure, Homophobic murder, Humiliation on reality TV, Wild Wild Country, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Honey Boo Boo
This Is Not A Movie: Doc on Robert Fisk Examines The Fraught Business of Reporting on War
Meat the Future: CBC Hot Docs doc asks, 'How now, grown cow-sample?'
ReviewJim SlotekCell-grown meat, Hot Docs 2020 on CBC, Memphis Meats, Liz Marshall, Meat the Future, Ghosts in Our Machine, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Tyson Foods, Dr. Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese
Spaceship Earth: Remembering the Biosphere 2 bio-nauts and their complex plan to REALLY self-isolate
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekLiving in isolation, Planning for a space experience, Spaceship Earth, Biosphere 2, Matt Wolf, John Allen, Edward Bass, Steve Bannon, The Heraclitius, Theatre for the Reconstitution of Reality, Johnny Dolphin
National Theatre's Frankenstein: The play's the (free) thing, with Cumberbatch and Miller
ReviewJim SlotekStage plays streamed during quarantine, National Theatre production of Frankenstein, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller, National Theatre at Home, Antony & Cleopatra, Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Danny Boyle, Mary Shelley, Karl Johnson
Your week-endless preview: What to watch that's NOT in the theatres.
ReviewJim SlotekStreamed movie roundups, Ryan Murphy, Netflix's Hollywood, Holland Taylor, Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, Dylan McDermott, Dan Lanigan, Prop Culture, Fleabag, True North: Inside The Rise of Toronto Basketball, Ryan Sidhoo, Michael Greyeyes, Jeff Barnaby, Blood Quantum, Finding Sally, Tamara Mariam Dawit, Tammy's Always Dying, Felicity Huffman, Anastasia Phillips, Amy Jo Johnson, A Secret Love, The Half of It
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
