Original-Cin/Hollywood Suite Cross-Promo: Liam Lacey Programs Disturbing Relationships Into The 'Decades' Channels
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Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekCactus Flower, The End of the Affair, Death in Venice, Fatal Attraction, War of the Roses, Hollywood Suite, Shoot The Moon, Single White Female, The Crying Game, You Can Count on Me, Blue Valentine, Gone Girl, Drama, Comedy, Neil Jordan, Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling, Goldie Hawn, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Original-Cin Q&A: Teen scream-queen Lulu Wilson on the bloody revenge movie Becky, Star Trek: Picard and feminism
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekLulu Wilson, Becky, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Annabelle: Creation, The Haunting of Hill House, Teenage scream-queen, Kevin Jame, Star Trek PIcard, Gloria Steinem, Female empowered horror films
Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee squeezes a mini-series worth of contrivances to get us from Vietnam to Black Lives Matter
ReviewJim SlotekSpike Lee, Da 5 Bloods, Vietnam War, Black Lives Matter, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Kevin Willmott, Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Norm Lewis, Chadwick Boseman, Jonathan Majors, Johnny Nguyen, Mélanie Thierry, Jean Reno, Newton Thomas Sigel, Terence Blanchard, The Chambers Brothers, Marvin Gaye
Original-Cin Q&A: Palestinian director Elia Suleiman talks about his absurdist approach to inflammatory reality
Review, InterviewJim SlotekElia Suleiman, It Must Be Heaven, Palestinian filmmaker, Absurdist social comment, Guy Sprung, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Movies released online during pandemic, Yasmine Hamdan, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati
Original-Cin Q&A: Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer talks about the importance of being Irish and having Colin Farrell as his onscreen avatar
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekArtemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, Children's book series turned movie, Kenneth Branagh, Ferdia Shaw, Nonso Anozie, Tamara Smart, Judi Dench, Josh Gad, Colin Farrell, Schitt's Creek
The King of Staten Island: Judd Apatow and Pete Davidson squeeze tenderhearted comedy out of dark reality
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekJudd Apatow, Pete Davidson, The King of Staten Island, Saturday Night Live alumni, Dave Sirus, Marisa Tomei, 9/11, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow, Bill Burr, Steve Buscemi
Original-Cin Q&A: Dads director Bryce Dallas Howard recalls Ron's advice not to make a 'Bryce-loves-her-dad' doc
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekBryce Dallas Howard, Dads documentary, Ron Howard, Rance Howard, Father's Day, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel', Will Smith, Celebrity dads, Daddy bloggers
Shoot to Marry: Toronto Filmmaker’s Madcap Search for Love Yields Laughs… and Gravity
Searching Eva: Deliberately surface-deep portrait of an anxiety-stricken influencer passes off superficiality as art
Original-Cin Q&A: Emmy winner R.J. Cutler talks about the heart-touching doc series Dear... on AppleTV+
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekDear...., AppleTV+, R.J. Cutler, Jane Goodall, Spike Lee, Big Bird, Stevie Wonder, Misty Copeland, Oprah Winfrey, Yara Shahidi, Bruce Springsteen's The Rising, Celebrity fan letters that change lives, The War Room, D. A. Pennebaker, Dont Look Back, Chris Hegedus
Judy & Punch: Fearlessly Dark Fable Powered by Puppets, Performance… and Fearsome Payback
ReviewMirrah Foulkes, Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Judy & Punch, Medieval, Black comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Puppets, Marionettes, Vice
The Rabbi Goes West: Soul-saving Hasidim in Montana face neo-Nazis to the right, 'reform' Jews to the left
ReviewJim SlotekThe Rabbi Goes West, Chaim Bruk, Chabad Lubavitch, Bozeman, Montana., Orthodox Jews, Reform and Conservative Jews, Small town Judaism, Gerald Peary, Amy Geller, mezuzah, Whitefish, Montana, Radical white supremacists, Richard Spencer
Becky: Surly teen girl versus neo-Nazis thriller proves it's not just looks that can kill
ReviewJim SlotekBecky, Teen girl revenge movie, Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion, Lulu Wilson, Star Trek: Picard, Kevin James, White power skinhead villains, Joel McHale, Amanda Brugel, Robert Maillet
Phoenix, Oregon: Likeable Dramedy about Midlife Rebirth Comforting if Conventional
Review, PreviewGary Lundgren, Phoenix Oregon, James Le Gros, Jesse Borrego, Lisa Edelstein, Diedrich Bader, Kevin Corrigan, Comedy, Bowling, Bowling movies, The Big Lebowski, Sideways
Original-Cin Q&A: Director and co-star of the darkly comic puppeteering drama share thoughts on marionettes and violence
By Bonnie Laufer
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Rescuing Rex: An often harrowing look at where those rescue dogs came from, and how they got that way
ReviewJim SlotekInternational rescue dogs, Leora Eisen, Rescuing Rex, TVO documentary, Nicole Simone, Redemption Paws, Mary Choi, Adopt-a-Doggie, Taiwan, Texas, Lack of regulation in dog trafficking, Baby Boomers vs Millennials
Original-Cin Q&A: Upload's Robbie Amell talks about digital life and death, and the series' satire of class division
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekUpload, Robbie Amell, Greg Daniels, Andy Allo, Uploading human consciousness, Amazon Prime, Code-8, Stephen Amell, Italia Ricci, Social class, Out of control technology, Desperados, Nasim Pedrad, Canadian actors
Online Toronto Jewish Film Festival kicks off, ironically, with a Skype-based troubled marriage story
By Linda Barnard
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekToronto Jewish Film Festival’s online fest, Film festivals reacting to COVID-19, Keren Ben Rafael, The End of Love, Judith Chemla, Give Me Liberty, Those Who Remained, Short Lily, 1950s comic book illustration pioneer Lily Renée Phillips, Dayan: The First Family, Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Raising the Dead: Savvy Doc Puts George A. Romero’s 1968 Horror Classic in Fresh Light
Preview, Review, InterviewHollywood Suite, George A. Romero, documentary, Raising the Dead: Re-Examining Night of the Living Dead, Ryan Mains, Duane Jones, Kyra Schon, Roger Ebert, Geoff Pevere, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Horror, Zombies, Cult Classic
A White, White Day: Acclaimed Icelandic film masterfully releases the steam of bottled emotions
By Karen Gordon
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PreviewJim SlotekIcelandic films, A White, White Day, Hlynur Palmason, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, infidelity, Stalking, Repressed emotion, Cannes film awards
