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Can I Get a Witness?: 50 Is The New Life Expectancy
Can I Get a Witness?: 50 Is The New Life Expectancy

By Chris Knight

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 13, 2025Can I Get a Witness?, TIFF 24, Ann Marie Fleming, Sandra Oh, Joel Oulette, Keira Jang, Canadian, sci-fi, Drama, Dystopian storiesComment
Opus: Deeply Dark Entertainment Media Satire is a Made-For-Malkovich Fun Ride
Opus: Deeply Dark Entertainment Media Satire is a Made-For-Malkovich Fun Ride

By Liz Braun

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 12, 2025Entertainment media spoof, Opus, John Malkovich, Writer-director Mark Anthony Green, Pop superstar turned cult leader, Ayo Edebiri, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, Melissa Chambers, Faux thrillerComment
Novocaine: Too Painful to Watch, Too Funny to Miss
Novocaine: Too Painful to Watch, Too Funny to Miss

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 11, 2025Painful comedy, Novocaine, Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Nepo babies, Ray Nicholson, Matt Walsh, Directed by Dan Berk and Robert OlsenComment
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie - Daffy and Porky Find Buddy-Comedy Mojo
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie - Daffy and Porky Find Buddy-Comedy Mojo

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 11, 2025Looney Tunes movies, The Day the Earth Blew Up, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, Eric Bauza, Mel Blanc, Alien invasion, Fred Tatasciore, Candi Milo, Laraine Newman, Wayne KnightComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Director’s Doc on Rescued Cranes Offers Rare Good-News Nature Story
Original-Cin Q&A: Director’s Doc on Rescued Cranes Offers Rare Good-News Nature Story

By Kim Hughes

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InterviewJim SlotekMarch 11, 2025Dances with Cranes, Nature documentary, CBC’s The Nature of Things, Whooping cranes, Megan Wennberg, George Archibald, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, Canadian, Conservation, Canadian director, Canadian documentaryComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Ann Marie Fleming & Sandra Oh on Eco-Suicide in the Futuristic Can I Get a Witness?
Original-Cin Q&A: Ann Marie Fleming & Sandra Oh on Eco-Suicide in the Futuristic Can I Get a Witness?

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekMarch 10, 2025Suicide as an environmental approach, Eco sci-fi, Can I Get A Winess?, Director Ann Marie Fleming, Sandra Oh, Keira Jang, Joel Oulette, Jonathan Swift, A Modest ProposalComment
Boiling Point: An English Kitchen Drama with Social Bite
Boiling Point: An English Kitchen Drama with Social Bite

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 10, 2025Boiling Point, BBC, TV series, Kitchen, Philip Barantini, Mounia Akl, Vinette Robinson, Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters, Ray Panthaki, Super Channel, British, DramaComment
The Rule of Jenny Pen: The Twilight Years Just Got Darker
The Rule of Jenny Pen: The Twilight Years Just Got Darker

By Thom Ernst

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 6, 2025The Rule of Jenny Pen, James Ashcroft, John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, Nathaniel Lees, Psychological thrillllers, horror, Shudder, Elder abuseComment
Mickey 17: Twice the Robert Pattinsons, Twice the Madness in Bong Joon Ho's Latest
Mickey 17: Twice the Robert Pattinsons, Twice the Madness in Bong Joon Ho's Latest

By Karen Gordon

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 6, 2025Bong Joon Ho, Mickey 17, Robert Pattinson, Programmed replacement soldiers, Space sci-fi, Alien life forms, Mickey 7 novel by Ashton Edward, Ice planet, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Naomi AckieComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Sonequa Martin-Green's Real-Life Trauma Behind My Dead Friend Zoe
Original-Cin Q&A: Sonequa Martin-Green's Real-Life Trauma Behind My Dead Friend Zoe

By John Kirk

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InterviewJim SlotekMarch 6, 2025Sonequa Martin-Green, Movies about PTSD, My Dead Friend Zoe, Star Trek: Discovery, Director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, Sharing personal trauma, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Natalie Morales, Utkarsh AmbudkarComment
The Silent Planet: Canadian Low-Budget Sci-Fi Goes the Distance
The Silent Planet: Canadian Low-Budget Sci-Fi Goes the Distance

By Chris Knight

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 6, 2025The Silent Planet, Sci fi, Canadian film, Jeffrey St. Jules, Elias Koteas, Briana Middleton, FuturisticComment
This Time Next Year: Routine Rom-Com Prompts New Year’s Auld Lang Anxiety
This Time Next Year: Routine Rom-Com Prompts New Year’s Auld Lang Anxiety

By Kim Hughes

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 6, 2025This Time Next Year, Nick Moore, Lucien Laviscount, Sophie Cookson, rom-com, British, Romantic comedyComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Directors of Night of the Zoopocalypse Deliver Clive Barker for Kids

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekMarch 5, 2025Horror films for families, Night of the Zoopocalypse, Clive Barker, Director Ricardo Curtis, Director Rodrigo Perez-Castro, Zombies in a zoo, Scott Thompson, Gabbi Kosmidis, David Harbour, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Christina NovaComment
Daredevil: Born Again - The Devils Finally Get Their Due
Daredevil: Born Again - The Devils Finally Get Their Due

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekMarch 4, 2025Marvel TV series, Daredevil: Born Again, Charlie Cox, The Kingpin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Classic comic hero/villain dichotomy, Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, Kamar de los Reyes, Jon Bernthal, White Tiger, PunisherComment
Original-Cin Q&A: Egoyan and Seyfried on their Latest Collaboration, Seven Veils
Original-Cin Q&A: Egoyan and Seyfried on their Latest Collaboration, Seven Veils

By Bonnie Laufer

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InterviewJim SlotekMarch 3, 2025Seven Veils, Atom Egoyan, Amanda Seyfried, Canadian drama, TIFF 24, Opera, Films about womenComment
Superboys of Malegaon: A crowdpleaser about DIY cinema, Desi style
Superboys of Malegaon: A crowdpleaser about DIY cinema, Desi style

By Liam Lacey

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ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 27, 2025Bollywood cinema spoof, Superboys of Malegaon, DIY Indian cinema, Toronto International Film Festival, Viral Deși films, Wedding photographer Nasir Sheikh, Adarsh Gourav, Shashank Arora, Vineet Kumar Singh, Personal and local filmmakingComment
Last Breath: Deeper Dive into Character Would Have Made Drama Stronger
Last Breath: Deeper Dive into Character Would Have Made Drama Stronger

By Liz Braun

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ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 26, 2025Last Breath, Alex Parkinson, Finn Cole, Simu Liu, Woody Harrelson, Drama, fact based drama, Rescue mission, Underwater Comment
My Dead Friend Zoe: PTSD Becomes a Literal Near-Death Experience in a Touching Tale
My Dead Friend Zoe: PTSD Becomes a Literal Near-Death Experience in a Touching Tale

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 24, 2025PTSD stories, Hallucinations of dead friends, My Dead Friend Zoe, Director/writer Kyle Haussman-Stokes, Sonequa Martin-Green, Star Trek: Discovery, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gloria Reuben, U.S. military in AfghanistanComment
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX – Beginning: Cool Robots, Too Bad About the Story
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX – Beginning: Cool Robots, Too Bad About the Story

By John Kirk

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ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 24, 2025Anime, Gundam robots, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX – Beginning, Sci fi with excessive backstory, Robot fighting, Director Kazuya Tsurumaki, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Yui Ishikawa Comments
Grand Theft Hamlet: A Fascinating Mashup of 17th-Century Theatre, 21st-Century Gaming, and Pandemic Lockdown
Grand Theft Hamlet: A Fascinating Mashup of 17th-Century Theatre, 21st-Century Gaming, and Pandemic Lockdown

By Chris Knight

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ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 21, 2025Grand Theft Hamlet, Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, Mark Oosterveen, MUBI, Shakespeare, Video game, Animation, British, DocumentaryComment
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