Doors: Weird End-of-Days Sci-Fi Thriller Nods to Stanley Kubrick… and Breakfast Club
Review, PreviewJim SlotekDoors, Sci-fi, Saman Kesh, Jeff Desom, Dugan O'Neal, Breakfast Club, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Hemphill, Darius Levantè, Kyp Malone.
Rose Plays Julie: Revenge Thriller Tackles Adoption/Identity Issue with Powerful Results
Wojnarowicz: Remembering a Voice of Protest and the New York AIDS-Generation Art Scene
Review, PreviewJim SlotekWojnarowicz, documentary, New York, New York art scene, 1980s, '80s AIDS epidemic, Chris McKim, Keith Haring, Fran Lebowitz, David Wojnarowicz
Live! From his living room! Comedian Ron James creates an all-new ticketed event with virtual laughs
InterviewJim SlotekLive comedy during the pandemic, Ron James, Virtual concerts, Live from My Living Room: Spring Loaded, Up and Down in Shakytown, CBC comedy specials, El Mocambo, Belleville theatre The Empire, Keith Tomasek, Paul Pogue, The Road Between My Ears, Mike MacDonald, Billy Connolly
The Father: Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in a multi-layered masterpiece about aging
ReviewJim SlotekFilms about aging and dementia, The Father, French play La Pere, Florian Zeller, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Christopher Hampton, On Golden Pond, Make Way for Tomorrow, Brad Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Awards season, Oscar Best Picture nominees
Food Club: Danish dramedy about seniors rediscovering life via Italian cooking has heart despite Hallmark moments
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekMovies about senior women's lives, Danish movies, Movies about Italian cooking, Food Club, Kirsten Olesen, Stina Ekblad, Kirsten Lehfeldt, Michele Venitucci, Anne-Marie Olesen, Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Enforcement: Muddled but Forceful Danish Cop Drama Echoes Current Issues in Throwback Style
Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnders Ølholm, Jacob Møller, Enforcement, Danish films, Cop drama, Immigrant experience, Police violence, Simon Sears, Jacob Lohmann, Tarek Zayat
Violation: Canadian thriller replaces the tawdry in the rape-revenge genre with bleak, arty atmosphere
ReviewJim SlotekRape-revenge thrillers, Promising Young Woman, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Violation, Best Canadian Feature Vancouver Film Critics Circle, Lars von Trier, Dusty Mancinelli, Obi Abili, Jesse LaVercombe, Roseanne Liang, Shadow in the Cloud, Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox
Above Suspicion: Reality-based, Kentucky fried noir is a curious failure and an overreach for Emilia Clarke
ReviewJim SlotekMovies set among Southern drug dealers, Above Suspicion, Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke, Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone, Phillip Noyce, Jack Huston, Johnny Knoxville, Ozark, Justified, Austin Hébert, Thora Birch, Sophie Lowe, Chris Gerolmo, Joe Sharkey
Crisis: Drama About the Opioid Calamity Less Intense than Real Headlines
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCrisis, Drama, Opioid crisis, Nicholas Jarecki, Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Lily-Rose Depp, Michelle Rodriguez, Kid Cudi, fact-based drama
F.T.A.: Fonda and Sutherland's '72 anti-USO show holds up as companion piece to today's Vietnam film flashbacks
Review, ViewsJim SlotekF.T.A., Jane Fonda, Anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the army, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judas and the Black Messiah, Da Five Bloods, Donald Sutherland, Dalton Trumbo’s 1938 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun., Alan Myerson, The Committee, Holly Near, Rita Martinson, Pamela Donegan, Len Chandler, Francine Parker
Sacrilege: Strong Female Characters get Wasted (Literally) in Suspense-less Horror
Review, PreviewJim SlotekSacrilege, Horror, David Creed, Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Sian Abrams, Naomi Willow, Paganism, Nightmares, British, Thriller, Midsommar
Hawk and Rev Vampire Slayers: Proving Even Super Low-Budget Can be Super-Fun
Come True: Unforgettable nightmare imagery in this 'dream-logic' twist on Elm Street
ReviewJim SlotekDream-based horror movies, Canadian horror movies, Come True, Anthony Scott Burns, Vincenzo Natali, Cube, Splice, Nightmare on Elm Street, Julia Sarah Stone, Christopher Heatherington, Landon Liboiron, Depictions of hell, Hieronymus Bosch
Night of the Kings: African prison-set Scheherazade is a beautiful piece of storytelling about storytelling
Death of a Ladies’ Man: Nice Try but Alas, Only Leonard Cohen Gets to be Leonard Cohen
Original-Cin Q&A: Matthew Bissonnette and Gabriel Byrne talk Leonard Cohen and Death of a Ladies' Man
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Jump, Darling director and co-star talk about Cloris Leachman in her final role
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekJump Darling, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Thomas Duplessie, Drag Queens, Price Edward County, Canadian movies, Phil Connell, Comedy, Drama, Family, Aging, Actors' final performances
Praise for Cloris Leachman’s Outstanding Final Role in Jump, Darling
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekJump Darling, Cloris Leachman, Jayne Eastwood, Thomas Duplessie, Drag Queens, Price Edward County, Canadian movies, Phil Connell, Comedy, Drama, Family, Aging, Actors' final performances
My Salinger Year: Memoir-Based Drama about Catcher in the Rye Writer Blurry As its Subject
Review, PreviewJim SlotekMy Salinger Year, Memoir adaptation, Phillipe Falardeau, Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Canadian film, Tim Post
