The Trip to Greece: Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon Foodie Franchise Finale Hits the Spot
Military Wives: Formulaic Dramedy from Full Monty Director Pleasant but Dull
The Painter and the Thief: Unsettling Norwegian doc considers art for art's sake, and the possible damage done
Original-Cin Q&A: Daveed Diggs talks TV's Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho and seeing himself onstage in Hamilton for the first time
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekSnowpiercer, TV spinoffs of hit films, Bong Joon-ho, Daveed Diggs, Hamilton, Broadway plays streaming at home, Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, Central Park animated series, Blindspotting, Soul
Ten fantastic foodie films to whet your appetite for release of The Trip To Greece
By Linda Barnard
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Jim SlotekThe Trip to Greece, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Famous foodie films, Big Night, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Ratatouille, The Lunchbox, Irrfan Khan, Babette’s Feast, Like Water for Chocolate, Eat Drink Man Woman, Ang Lee, Tampopo, I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino, Tilda Swinton, Mostly Martha
Capone: Weird Biopic of Infamous Gangster Like Rubbernecking A Wreck Despite Tom Hardy
Beyond Moving: A South African child street-performer's problematic journey to ballet's global stages
Upload: Enjoyably quirky series set inside a digital afterlife, where your credit rating still matters
ReviewJim SlotekDigital life after death, Upload, Amazon Prime series, The Office, Greg Daniels, Space Force, Robbie Amell, Stephen Amell, Jordan Johnson-Hinds, Corporate satire, Andy Allo, William B. Davis, Rhys Slac, Kevin Bigley, Elizabeth Bowen, Allegra Edwards
Red Rover: 'Meeting cute' while planning the ultimate in self-isolation on Mars
ReviewJim SlotekLow budget sci-fi films, Red Rover, Shane Belcourt, Another Earth, Computer Chess, Clara, James Vs. His Future Self, Civilian volunteers for Mars missions, Shane belcourt, Kristian Bruun, Orphan Black, Cara Gee
They Call Me Dr. Miami: Portrait of a plastic surgeon who'll never need a grandiosity transplant
By Linda Barnard
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Hollywood Suite Critic's Picks: Original-Cin steps up to span the decades in film
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PreviewJim SlotekHollywood Suite, Critic's Picks, Jim Slotek, Original-Cin, Manufactured Landscapes, Anthropocene, Fido, Goon, Slap Shot, Michael Dowse, Alison Pill, Seann William Scott, And Now For Something Completely Different, Monty Python, Play Misty For Me, Clint Eastwood, Breaking Away, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Quest For Fire, An American Werewolf in London, The Right Stuff, Misery, Stephen King, Fight Club, Edward Norton, Election, Reese Witherspoon, Tracy Flick
Original-Cin Q&A: Kristian Bruun talks Mars in Red Rover and dishes the upcoming Orphan Black charity reunion on HOMECON
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekKristian Bruun, Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black, Carter, Jerry O’Connel, Red Rover, Canadian films, Cara Gee, Civilian volunteers for Mars missions, Shane Belcourt, HOMECON, Orphan Black reunion for charity, Paul Amos, Zoom, The Handmaid's Tale, Ready Or Not, Avocado Toast
Original-Cin Q&A: The voice of Goofy speaks about his new Disney+ show It's a Dog's Life With Bill Farmer
By Bonnie Laufer
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Michelle Obama and Dalai Lama Together at Last (OK, Not Really) in Fawning New Docs
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
