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Catherine Called Birdy: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Circa 14th Century (with a Female-Centric View)
Catherine Called Birdy: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Circa 14th Century (with a Female-Centric View)

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 7, 2022TIFF 2022, Catherine Called Birdy, Lena Dunham, Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Russell Brand, Michael Woolfitt, Paul Kaye, Jamie Demetriou, Comedy, Period filmsComment
Triangle of Sadness: Ruben Östlund’s Divisive Palme d’Or Winner A Note-Perfect Satire
Triangle of Sadness: Ruben Östlund’s Divisive Palme d’Or Winner A Note-Perfect Satire

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 7, 2022Triangle of Sadness, Palme d’Or at Cannes, Ruben Östlund, Harris Dickinson, Charbli Dean, Woody Harrelson, Dolly De Leon, Vicki Berlin, TIFF 2022Comment
Original-Cin Q&A: Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar & The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Co-Star Lucy Hale Talk Books
Original-Cin Q&A: Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar & The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Co-Star Lucy Hale Talk Books

By Bonnie Laufer

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Jim SlotekOctober 5, 2022The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Best-selling novel by Gabrielle Zevin, The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks, David ArquetteComment
Blind Ambition: Underdog African Sommelier Story Adds Geniality to the Wine-Film Genre
Blind Ambition: Underdog African Sommelier Story Adds Geniality to the Wine-Film Genre

By Kim Hughes

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 5, 2022Documentary, Wine, Wine connoisseurs, Blind Ambition, Robert Coe, Warwick Ross, Hot Docs, Drama, South Africa, ZimbabweComment
Amsterdam: Director David O. Russell’s Anticipated Return as Sloppy as It Is Starry
Amsterdam: Director David O. Russell’s Anticipated Return as Sloppy as It Is Starry

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 4, 2022Amsterdam, David O. Russell, Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Michael Shannon, Mike Myers, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldana, Taylor Swift, Rami Malek, Beth Grant, Robert De Niro, Timmy Olyphant, Period piece, Drama, MadcapComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Cast of Lena Dunham's Catherine Called Birdy on Medieval Marriage and Bella Ramsey
Original-Cin Q&A: Cast of Lena Dunham's Catherine Called Birdy on Medieval Marriage and Bella Ramsey

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekOctober 4, 2022Medieval movies, Arranged marriage, Children's novels, Catherine Called Birdy, Lena Dunham, Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Billie Piper, Joe AlwynComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Mila Kunis on Trauma in Luckiest Girl Alive, and How Meg May Sink Family Guy
Original-Cin Q&A: Mila Kunis on Trauma in Luckiest Girl Alive, and How Meg May Sink Family Guy

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekOctober 3, 2022Mila Kunis, Film about a trauma survivor, Luckiest Girl Alive, Novel by Jessica Knoll, Chiara Aurelia, Mike Barker, Glenn Close, Four Good Days, Family GuyComment
Two Witches: Witches Without a Cause
Two Witches: Witches Without a Cause

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekOctober 3, 2022Horror, Two Witches, Pierre Tsigaridis, Rebekah Kennedy, Kristina Klebe, Tim Fox, Belle Adams, Halloween Comment
Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Guy Maddin Talks About His Now-Reconstructed Debut, 34 Years Later
Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Guy Maddin Talks About His Now-Reconstructed Debut, 34 Years Later

By Liam Lacey

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InterviewJim SlotekOctober 2, 20224K remastering of Canadian classics, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Guy Maddin, Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Ron Mann, Canadian Cinema — Re-ignitedComment
Tales from the Gimli Hospital, And Other Canadian Films on the Road to 4K Recovery
Tales from the Gimli Hospital, And Other Canadian Films on the Road to 4K Recovery

By Liam Lacey

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PreviewJim SlotekOctober 2, 2022Canadian Cinema — Re-ignited, 4K remastering of Canadian classics, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Guy Maddin, Ron Mann’s Sphinx Pictures, P4W: Prison for Women, Hookers on Davie, West of Pluto (À l’ouest de Pluton), The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La moitié gauche du frigo), EncorePlusComment
God’s Creatures: Emily Watson Anchors Sublime Story about Small-town Secrets and Lives
God’s Creatures: Emily Watson Anchors Sublime Story about Small-town Secrets and Lives

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 29, 2022God Creatures, Saela Davis, Shane Crowley, Anne Rose Holmer, Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, Aisling Franciosi, Irish, Small town Irish lives, DramaComment
What We Leave Behind: An Intimate Cross-Border Family Documentary
What We Leave Behind: An Intimate Cross-Border Family Documentary

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 29, 2022Tales of cross-border labourers, Netflix documentaries, What We Leave Behind, Iliana Sosa, Ava DuVernay, Julián Moreno, Judy Phu, Monica WiseComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Quick Hits from Dead for a Dollar's Dafoe, Bratt, Waltz, Burke and Walter Hill
Original-Cin Q&A: Quick Hits from Dead for a Dollar's Dafoe, Bratt, Waltz, Burke and Walter Hill

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 29, 2022Dead for a Dollar, Walter Hill, Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt, Western, Drama, Period pieceComment
Smile: When An Upside-Down Frown is the Devil's Playground
Smile: When An Upside-Down Frown is the Devil's Playground

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 29, 2022Evil grins in movies, Smile, Parker Finn, Kiss of Death, Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kal Penn Comment
Bros: 'Gay Rom-Com' Brings the Funny and the Romance, and More
Bros: 'Gay Rom-Com' Brings the Funny and the Romance, and More

By Jim Slotek

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 29, 2022Gay romantic comedy, Bros, Billy Eichner, Rom-com tropes, Gay history, Grindr, Luke Macfarlane, Nicholas Stoller, Judd ApatowComment
Dead for a Dollar: Walter Hill’s Old-Fashioned, New-Fangled Western
Dead for a Dollar: Walter Hill’s Old-Fashioned, New-Fangled Western

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 29, 2022Dead for a Dollar, Walter Hill, Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt, Luis Chavez, Hamish Linklater, Western, Drama, Period piece Comment
The Justice of Bunny King: A Troubled Character Takes Flight on a Soaring Performance
The Justice of Bunny King: A Troubled Character Takes Flight on a Soaring Performance

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 27, 2022Drama, New Zealand, The Justice of Bunny King, Gaysorn Thavat, Sophie Henderson, Thomasin McKenzie, Essie DavisComment
Pinocchio: Wooden You Know, the 'Live-Action' Remake Would Be Less Real Than the Cartoon?
Pinocchio: Wooden You Know, the 'Live-Action' Remake Would Be Less Real Than the Cartoon?

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 26, 2022Pinocchio, Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Disney animated films remade realistically, Cynthia ErivoComment
Sidney: Oprah-Approved Sidney Poitier Doc as Lovely as the Man it Depicts
Sidney: Oprah-Approved Sidney Poitier Doc as Lovely as the Man it Depicts

By Kim Hughes

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 23, 2022Sidney Poitier, Sidney, Docuementary, TIFF 2022, Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Morgan FreemanComment
Lou: Rather Like People, Predictable Stories are Sometimes Hard to Take
Lou: Rather Like People, Predictable Stories are Sometimes Hard to Take

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 22, 2022Lou, Netflix, Allison Janney, Antihero, DramaComment
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