Toronto Japanese Film Festival: A Sushi Platter for All Tastes and Ages
PreviewJim SlotekToronto Japanese Film Festival, Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality, Cells at Work!, She Taught Me Serendipity, Give It All, Let’s Go Karaoke!, Nintama Rantaro Invincible Master of the Dokutake Ninja, Teki Cometh, Petals and Memories, 90 Years Old — So What?, Aimitagai, Living in Two Worlds, River Returns, Sunset Sunrise, The Lens of Tamio Wakayama, Ravens, The Vow from Hiroshima, Muromachi Outsiders, Bushido, Seppuku: The Son Goes Down, Cloud, Angry Squad: Civil Servants and Seven Swindlers, La Grande Maison Paris, Last Mile
Party Pirate: Good Intentions Aside, It's Avast Disappointment
The Phoenician Scheme: Wes Anderson Does Wes Anderson With Andersonian Results
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Cera, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy
The Ritual: The Devil’s in the Details, But Not Much Else
ReviewJim SlotekThe Ritual, horror, Exorcism movies, David Midell, Al Pacino, Dan Stevens, Patricia Heaton, Abigail Cowen, Ashley Greene, Patrick Fabian
Implosion The Titanic Sub Disaster: Doc Lays Bare How Hubris Sunk Bold Aquatic Expedition
Predator Killer of Killers: Even Animated, We Kick Technologically Superior Alien Butt
Ballerina: Nah, Let's Just Call It John Wick 5
ReviewJim SlotekJohn Wick franchise, The World of John Wick, Ballerina, Ana de Armas, Female movie assassins, Keanu Reeves, John Wick: Chapter 4, Anjelica Huston, Ruska Roma, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Chad Stahelski, Director Len Wiseman
Dangerous Animals: Thrills, Chills & Cheese Make for a Shark-infested Potential Summer Hit
Ocean with David Attenborough: Taking an Inspirational Plunge with the Old Man and the Sea
ReviewJim SlotekNature documentary, David Attenborough, Near centenarians, Ocean, National Geographic Channel, United Nations’ World Oceans Day, Factory fishing ships, Global warming, Colin Butfield, Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey
I Don’t Understand You: Maybe Something Got Lost in Translation?
By Chris Knight
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Original-Cin Q&A: Charles Grodin Doc Director Locates the Humanitarian Within the Star
By Bonnie Laufer
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Bring Her Back: Grief Encounters of the Creepiest Kind
Two Women: Racy Remake of 1970 Quebec Sex Comedy Still Sparkles
By Chris Knight
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The Better Sister: Sibling Rivals, A Grisly Stabbing and Too Many Suspects
ReviewJim SlotekThe Better Sister, Prime Video, Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks, Corey Stoll, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Kim Dickens, Bobby Naderi, Michael Harney, Lorraine Toussaint, Matthew Modine, Domestic Noir, Drama, Series, Streaming series
Karate Kid Legends: Latest Franchise Installment Should Have Waxed On, Not Waxed Off
ReviewJim SlotekKarate Kid: Legends, Jonathan Entwistle, Jackie Chan, Ben Wang, Ralph Macchio, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen, Aramis Knight, Sequel, Franchise, Family film
Original-Cin Q&A: Blue Mountain, the Cancon Comedy Racewalkers and the Weirdest Olympic Sport
InterviewJim SlotekCanadian comedies, Sports comedies, Strange Olympic sports, Racewalkers, Kevin Claydon, Phil Moniz, Robbie Amell, Blue Mountain Film Festival, Bronze medalist Evan Dunfee, Coach Stafford Whelan
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
The Blue Mountain Film Festival: Nope, No Slopes, But Movies For All
PreviewJim SlotekRegional film festivals, Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival, Summer tourism at winter ski destinations, Patti Kendall, Salsa at Blue, Agora: Path of Light, Producer Daniel Bekerman, Programmer Jason Gorber, Canadian premiere of Racewalkers, Carson Lund’s Eephus, Black Dog, Ojibway-dubbed Star Wars, Middletown
Lilo & Stitch: Live-Action Lilo Remake Feels Stitched Together
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekLilo & Stitch, Disney, Live-action, Dean Fleischer Camp, Maia Kealoha, Chris Sanders, Sydney Agudong, Tia Carrere, Children's movies, Remake
Inside Out Film and Video Festival Turns 35 with Tales of Transformation
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekInside Out Film and Video Festival, 35th anniversary edition of Inside Out, Opening Gala Outerlands, Closing Gala The Best Friend (O Melchior Amigo), Zackery Drucker’s documentary, Enigma., Rohan Kanawade’s Cactus Pears (Sabafr Bonda), Sweet Angel Baby, Really Happy Someday, J Stevens, Noam Gonick’s Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance, Two Women (Deux Femmes)
