The Courageous: Parenting, Poverty and a Memorable Mother
ReviewJim SlotekThe Courageous, TIFF 24, Jasmin Gordon, Single mom in jeopardy, Ophelia Kolb, Jasmine Kalisz Saurer, Paul Besnier, French film, Drama, Women's lives
Secret Mall Apartment: If These Walls Could Talk... Oh, Wait. They Do!
The Wedding Banquet: Rom-Com Remake Retains Some Rom, Loses the Com
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Wedding Banquet, Andrew Ahn, James Schamus, Remake, Seattle, Gay Film, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-Jung, Drama, rom-com
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who... - Never Mind, Iffy Title, Great Movie
Government Cheese: David Oyelowo is a Dad with a Plan in Surreal Period Drama
ReviewJim SlotekGovernment Cheese, Apple TV+, Series, 1960s, Black Americans, Paul Hunter, Aeysha Carr, David Oyelowo, Simone Missick, Bokeem Woodbine, Evan Ellison, Jahi Di'Allo Winston
Skeet: Mean Streets for the Maritimes
ReviewJim SlotekSkeet, National Canadian Film Day, Sean Dalton, Jay Abdo, Jackson Petten, Wendi Smallwood, Kate Corbett, Garth Sexton, Canadian drama, Canadian film, Nik Sexton
One to One: John & Yoko Offers Intimate if Uneven Look at Couple’s 70s New York Years
Original-Cin Q&A: Severance's Britt Lower on Marriage Help from a Serial Killer in Psycho Therapy
By Bonnie Laufer
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National Canadian Film Day: Navigating the Big Day in Canadian Film Online
PreviewJim SlotekNational Canadian Film Day, Festival, Canadian movies, Reel Canada, C.R.A.Z.Y, Crime Wave, Ginger Snaps, My American Cousin, White Room, Waydowntown, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, Rude
It Feeds: But It Doesn’t Pander as Chad Archibald’s Indie Horror Finds Its Bite
ReviewJim SlotekIt Feeds, Chad Archibald, Ashley Greene, Ellie O’Brien, Juno Rinaldi, Shayelin Martin, Scott Baker, Shawn Ashmore, Canadian film, Horror, National Canadian Film Day
Coastal: Neil Young's Solo Escape-From-Lockdown Tour Doc is a Revealing Family Affair
ReviewJim SlotekRock tour documentaries, Rock legends venturing out post-pandemic, Neil Young, Coastal, Director Daryl Hannah, Solo acoustic tours, Pump organ, Lionel trains, Life in a tour bus, Jerry Don Borden
Resident Orca: Doc on Whale in Captivity Both a Blow and a Balm to the Soul
Drop: Textbook Texting Thriller Drops Logic for Thrills
Warfare: A Film That Will Shell-Shock its Audience
ReviewJim SlotekRealistic war films, Iraq War, Warfare, Director Alex Garland, Veterans who become filmmakers, Ray Mendoza, Joseph Quinn, Will Poulter, Kit Connor, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
Sacramento: Very Few Sharp Turns on The Way to This Movie’s Destination
By Chris Knight
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Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm's Financier-Turned-Thief is his Post-Mad Men Best
We Were Dangerous: Youth and Hope Triumph in Kiwi Reform School Drama
ReviewJim SlotekWe Were Dangerous, New Zealand, Coming-of-age stories, Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, Maddie Dai, 1950s, Rima Te Wiata, Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall, Women's lives, TIFF Next Wave Selects
Original-Cin Q&A: Emily Bett Rickards on Nailing the Queen of the Ring
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Chat: Kenny Robinson on 30 Years of Nubian Comedy and a Crave Debut
InterviewJim SlotekBlack comedians, Yuk Yuk's, Nubian Comedy Revue, Kenny Robinson, Crave TV, People of Comedy: Celebrating 30 Years of the Nubian Show, Russell Peters, Hassan Phills, Zabrina Douglas, Joe Bodolai, Comedy for people of colour
Fog of War: Lazy, Hazy WWII Mystery Makes Little Use of John Cusack and Mira Sorvino
