The Complex: Lockdown: Dramatic Virus Thriller Not So Thrilling (or Dramatic)
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Complex: Lockdown, Paul Raschid, Thriller, Virus, Michelle Mylett, Al Weaver, Kim Adis, Kate Dickie, Pandemic, The Andromeda Strain, Drama
Original-Cin Q&A: Director Clark Johnson on the GMO activist drama Percy, Christopher Walken anecdotes, and a chance to direct Lovecraft Country
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekAnti-GMO activism, Percy, Percy Schmeiser, Christopher Walken, Roberta Maxwell, Zach Braff, Luke Kirby, Adam Beach, Martin Donovan, Clark Johnson, Cesar Chavez, The Dead Zone, Michael J. Fox, Night Heat, The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street, Sonny Grosso, Lovecraft Country
The Trial of the Chicago 7: Sacha Baron Cohen channels his inner Abbie Hoffman and Aaron Sorkin's machine-gun dialogue finds a perfect soap-box
ReviewJim Slotek1968 Democratic Convention, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judge Julius Hoffman, Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, Aaron Sorkin, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Fred Hampton, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Sacha Baron Cohen, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Jeremy Strong, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance, Tom Hayden, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS, Eddie Redmayne
A Fire in The Cold Season: Canuck Noir Offers Artful Take on Crime Thriller Genre
The Glorias: Exhausting Gloria Steinem Biopic a Clear Case of Less Would be More
Review, PreviewJim SlotekJulie Taymor, The Glorias, Biopic, Gloria Steinem, Women's right, Alicia Vikander, Julianne Moore, Bette Midler, Timothy Hutton, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint
On the Rocks: Bill Murray and director Sofia Coppola still in sweet sync, 17 years after Lost in Translation
By Karen Gordon
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Inside Out and Toronto Japanese Film Festival Rise to Pandemic Challenges
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekInside Out, Toronto Japanese Film Festival, Shiva Baby, Jump Darling, It Feels So Good, Stardust, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson:, Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, Breaking Fast:, LBGTQ, The Journalist, To the Ends of the Earth, Tora San: Wish You Were Here, Pandemic movies, Film Festivals, Toronto, Atsuko Maeda
Possessor Uncut: Brandon Cronenberg messes with our heads with a provocative tale of body-snatching assassins
ReviewJim SlotekBrandon Cronenberg, Possessor Uncut, Transferring consciousness plots, Sci-fi, Andrea Riseborough, Assassin stories, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, Christopher Abbott, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, Karim Hussain
The World's Biggest Family: How some sperm donors have fathered hundreds, and offspring discover armies of half-siblings
Original-Cin Q&A: The cast and director of Netflix's The Boys in the Band talk about Broadway, film and waiting for Jim Parsons to finish playing Sheldon
By Bonnie Laufer
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Jim SlotekNetflix Broadway remake, The Boys in the Band, Ryan Murphy, William Friedkin, Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, Brian Hutchison, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Zachary Quinto, Tuc Watkins, Tony Award in 2019 for Best Revival of a Play, Stonewall riots
Queen of the Morning Calm: Gloria Kim goes deep in strong drama about a spiralling single mom
ReviewJim SlotekQueen of the Morning Calm, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Tina Jung, Eponine Lee, Single moms in sex trade, Jesse LaVercombe, Shaun Benson, Kim's Convenience, Korea’s nickname, Land of The Morning Calm, Madama Butterfly, Childhood sexual abuse
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
