There's Always Hope: A Marriage Tale That Isn't Worth Saving
The Reluctant Traveler: Eugene Levy Leaves His Comfort Zone
Cocaine Bear: Definitely Don't Go Out in the Woods Today
We Have a Ghost: Fun Family Film Aces Its Tone and Feel
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekNetflix films, We Have a Ghost, Christopher Landon, David Harbour, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Anthony Mackie, Tig Notaro, Jennifer Coolidge, Erica Ash, Niles Fitch, Isabella Russo, Family film
Guitar Lessons: Predictable Canuck Dramedy Aims High but Flounders
ReviewJim SlotekGuitar Lessons, Canadian drama, First Nations, Aaron James, Corb Lund, Kaden Noskiye, Conway Kootenay, Lianna Makuch, coming of age, Alberta
Pacifiction: Warning, Three Hours of Vague Polynesian Intrigue May Cause Exasperation
Emily: Reconsidered Brontë Posits… Wuthering Heights, Drawn from Life?
Jim SlotekEmily, Period piece, Revisionist drama, Frances O’Connor, Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Alexandra Dowling, Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, Victorian England, Costume drama
Metronom: For Those About To Rock, We Arrest You
Juniper: Learning to Live and Die in Life’s Last Moments
Cat Daddies: Doc Celebrating Males and Their Fur Babies Sweet but Shallow
Available Light Film Festival: Whitehorse Event Brings the Thrills (and Chills… It’s Yukon!)
ReviewJim SlotekAvailable Light Film Festival, ALFF, Yukon Film Society, Telefilm Canada, The Whale, Aftersun, Living, EO, All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Ever Deadly, Brother, Riceboy Sleeps, Polaris, Eternal Spring, Navalny, Bones of Crows, Framing Agnes, Saint Omer, Doug and the Slugs and Me, I Like Movies, Rosie, Voices Across the Water, Geographies of Solitude, Film Festival, Whitehorse, Yukon
Original-Cin Q&A: Eric McCormack on Zamboni-Driving in Drinkwater, and his Will & Grace-based podcast
By Bonnie Laufer
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The Toronto Black Film Festival: Films of Home and Away
PreviewJim SlotekBlack History Month, Toronto Black Film Festival, Jennifer Holness, Film festivals virtual and in-person, Lovely Jackson, Aisha, Carajita, The Sharpeville massacre, Colin Kaepernick, Mahalia Jackson
Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania: Into the Quantifiable Realm
ReviewJim SlotekAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stan Lee, Superheroes, Ant-Man, Peyton Reed, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Kathryn Newton, Bill Murray, William Jackson, Katy O’Brien
Marlowe: Director Neil Jordan’s Irish-ification of Raymond Chandler A Big Snooze
ReviewJim SlotekMarlowe, Raymond Chandler, Period piece, Detective movie, Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lang, Danny Huston, Adewqale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart, Alan Cumming
Original-Cin Chat: Picard's New Captain Todd Stashwick is a Bigger Nerd Than You
Star Trek Picard: Third Time’s the Charm
ReviewJim SlotekStar Trek, Star Trek: Picard, Picard Season 3, Doug Aarniokoski, Jonathan Frakes, Terry Matalas, Dan Liu, Sir Patrick Stewart, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers, Todd Stashwick
Magic Mike's Last Dance: Trading Bump-and-Grind For a 'Pas-de-Don't' Finale
By Karen Gordon
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Attachment: Not Just Another Danish-English Same-Sex Jewish Horror Romance
Sweetheart: Grumpy Brit Teen Lesbian Finds Summer Love in Cozy Coming-of-Age Debut
