The Last Shift: Tone-Deaf ‘Comedy’ Plays to Stereotypes, Misses Chance for Insight
Rustic Oracle: An Indigenous story of truthful fiction - tragedy and despair filtered through a child's eyes
Tesla: A biopic with no spark to speak of, and one of the least dynamic performances of Ethan Hawke's career
ReviewJim SlotekNicola Tesla, Michael Almereyda, Tesla biopic, Ethan Hawke, Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule The World, Eve Hewson, J.P. Morgan, Donnie Keshawarz, David Bowie, The Prestige, Thomas Edison, Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Gaffigan, George Westinghouse, Marconi, Sarah Bernhardt, Rebecca Dayan, Deliberate anachronisms
Jay Sebring... Cutting to the Truth: A tribute to a forgotten "name" Manson victim, and an indictment of media frenzy
ReviewJim SlotekCharles Manson, Manson family, 10050 Cielo Drive, Sharon Tate, Anthony DiMaria, Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth, Hollywood men’s hair stylist Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Roman Polanski, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Vic Damone, Quincy Jones, Vincent Bugliosi, Dennis Hopper
That’s A Wrap! The Best, Worst, and Weirdest at TIFF 2020
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Views, Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNomadland, Chloe Zhao, Shiva, TIFF 2020, Limbo, One Night in Miami…, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, I Am Greta, Shadow In The Cloud, Quo Vadis, Concrete Cowboy, 76 Days, The Way I See It, Beans, Tracy Deer
TIFF 'In Conversation': Barry Jenkins' and Claire Denis' mutual admiration session ponders violence and the value of trust in film
InterviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival’s In Conversation With…, Barry Jenkins, Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Claire Denis, Chocolat, Josh Safdie, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Mati Diop, Atlantics, Outkast’s Andre Benjamin, The Weeknd, Herman Melville’s novella, Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd, High Life, Beau Travail
The Way I See It: Obama's Presidential photographer focuses on Trump through an angry lens
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekPresidential photographer, Pete Souza, Documentary The Way I See it, Warnings about Donald Trump, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Ronald Reagan, Sandy Hook shootings, 2020 Presidential election, Toronto International Film Festival
Barry Levinson and Denzel Washington ‘In Conversation’ at TIFF: Hollywood titans trade tales and insights
Interview, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, In Coversation With, Denzel Washington, Barry Levinson, Rain Man, Diner, Fences, Antwone Fisher, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman
Blackbird: A great cast, and yeah, it's a tearjerker - you got a problem with that?
ReviewJim SlotekBlackbird, American remakes of foreign films, Sam Neill, Susan Sarandon, Assisted suicide, Kate Winslet, Rainn Wilso, Anson Boon, Mia Wasikowska, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Lindsay Duncan, Roger Michell, Tear-jerkers
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday to Saturday, September 17 to 19
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Special Events, TIFF Docs, Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Shiva Baby, Underplayed, Enemies of the State, Gala Presentations, Good Joe Bell, Mark Wahlberg, Gary Sinise, Connie Britton, Gay rights, Toronto filmmaker, The Truffle Hunters, Primetime, A Suitable Boy, Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, Special Presentations, Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
TIFF Tribute Awards Recap: Kinda Cool, Kinda Weird (But With Peeks into Star’s Homes!)
By Linda Barnard
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Review, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, TIFF Tribute Awards, Nomadland, Beans, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Tracy Deer, One Night in Miami…, Bruised, Terence Blanchard
Antebellum: Racist past meets micro-aggressive racist present in carelessly offensive time-hopping tale
ReviewJim SlotekAntebellum, Time hopping allegory about racism, Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz, Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Hell You Talmabout, American Utopia, David Byrne, Spike Lee, Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally., The killing of Heather Heyer, Gabourey Sidibe, Jena Malone, William Faulkner
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Wednesday, September 16
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Limbo, DIscovery, Ben Sharrock, Pieces of a Woman, Gala Presentations, Kornél Mundruczó, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Vanessa Kirby, Wavelengths, Wildfire, Fauna, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, TIFF Docs, Nicolás Pereda, Cathy Brady, Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Special Events, I Am Greta, Greta Thunberg, Nathan Grossman
TIFF Q&A: Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky on replicating the madness at home, and answering our Get The Hell Out review
InterviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival, Midnight Madness, Programmer Peter Kuplowsky, Shadow In The Cloud, Alex Winter's Freaked, Tetsuro Takeuchi's Guitar Wolf, Get The Hell Out, Taiwanese zombie movie, I.-Fan Wang, Edgar Wright, Stephen Chow, Temple of Devilbuster
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Tuesday, September 15
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Contemporary World Cinema, Michel Franco, New Order, Mexico, Corruption, Venice Silver Lion Award, Trickster, TIFF New Wave, Michelle Latimer, CBC, Television, Bandar Band, Manijeh Hekmat, MLK/FBI, TIFF Docs, Masters, The Best Is Yet To Come, Notturno, Wang Jing, journalism
Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story - Not a "sad clown" story, but a hard, redemptive look at a hard man to like
TIFF press conference: How Idris Elba learned to love his horse on Concrete Cowboy
By Linda Barnard
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InterviewJim SlotekIdris Elba, Concrete Cowboy, Jamil “Mil” Prattis, Philadelphia's Fletcher Street Stables, Caleb McLaughlin, Stranger Things, Lorraine Toussaint, Orange is the New Black, Toronto International Film Festival, Jharrel Jerome, Moonlight, Lee Daniels, Ricky Staub, Greg Neri’s 2009 novel Ghetto Cowboy, Actors learning to ride a horse
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Monday, September 14
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Review, PreviewTIFF 2020, 76 Days, TIFF Docs, COVID-19, The Father, Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Contemporary World Cinema, Jasmila Žbanić, Jasna Đuričić, 180 Degree Rule, Discovery, Farnoosh Samadi, Ephraim Asili, The Inheritance, Wavelengths, Violation, Dusty Mancinelli, Midnight Madness, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Ammonite, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gala Presentations, Francis Lee
Saoirse Ronan ‘In Conversation’ Reveals Acclaimed Actor’s Debt to Her Directors
Interview, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Saoirse Ronan, In Coversation With, Kate Winslet, Lady Bird, greta gerwig, Brooklyn, John Crowley, Timothée Chalamet, Anne T. Donahue
TIFF press conference: Quarantined in North Bay, Penguin Bloom's Naomi Watts talks bird poop, wheelchairs and personal struggle
InterviewJim SlotekNaomi Watts, Naomi Watts quarantined in North Bay, Phillip Noyce thriller Lakewood, Penguin Bloom, "Support animal" birds, Magpies, The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver, Emma Cooper, Bruna Papandrea, Glendyn Ivin, Sam and Cam Bloom., Paralyzing accident, Wheelchair training, Bird poop
