Code 3: Rainn Wilson stars in a Dramatic 9/11 Call for the Health Care System
Original-Cin Chat: Will Arnett on Developing Stand-Up Muscles in Is This Thing On?
Avatar: Fire and Ash - Cameron's Space-Colonizing Epic Takes an 'Enemy of My Enemy' Turn
ReviewJim SlotekAvatar, Metaphor for European colonization, Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron, War between the Na'vi, Ash People, Oona Chaplin, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Britain Dalton, Jack Champion, Stephen Lang
Fallout S2: Getting the Hang of The Game
ReviewJim SlotekFallout, Fallout Season Two, Season Two, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Graham Wagner, Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Prime Video, Frances Turner, Moisés Arias, Kyle MacLachlan, based on a video game, Science fiction
Cover Up: The Atrocities Seymour Hersh Has Seen and Exposed
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentarian as "storyteller", Laura Poitras, Cover-Up, Investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh, The My Lai massacre, Abu Ghraib prison, Woodward and Bernstein, Watergate, The Dark Side of Camelot, Sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, Chemical weapons in Syrian civil war
Dust Bunny: Mads Mikkelsen Makes Assassin-as-Father-Figure Work in Eccentric Drama
Ella McCay: A Feisty Young Woman in a Feel-Good Movie Stuck in Faux Nostalgia
ReviewJim SlotekElla McCay, Politically themed comedy, Emma Mackey, James L. Brooks, Albert Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Kavner, Movies set during the Obama administration, Jack Lowden, Woody Harrelson
Resurrection: Director Bi Gan’s Latest a Fantastical Trip for (and About) the Senses
ReviewJim SlotekResurrection, Bi Gan, Science fiction, Fantastical, Shu Qi, Jackson Yee, Chen Yongzhong, Mark Chao, Cannes, Chinese, Chinese science fiction, Drama
One More Shot: It’s Like a Hot Tub Tequila Groundhog Time Machine Friends Episode
ReviewJim SlotekTime travel comedies, Friends-like pals, Australian films, One More Shot, Emily Browning, Sucker Punch, Ashley Zukerman, Anna McGahan, Contessa Treffone, Director Nicholas Clifford
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Young Gods Keep True in Season Two
Wake Up Dead Man: Rian Johnson Delivers a Holy Gift for Mystery Lovers
ReviewJim SlotekThe Knives Out series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Whodunnits, Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc, Murder in a church, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Director Rian Johnson, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Thomas Haden Church
Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Animatronics Unbound, More In-Jokes for Gamers
Merrily We Roll Along: Sondheim’s 1981 “Flop” Completes Its Comeback
By Chris Knight
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The Secret Agent: 70s-Era Brazilian Thriller with an Absurdist Twist One of the Year’s Best
ReviewJim SlotekThe Secret Agent, TIFF '25, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Alice Carvahlo, Maria Fernando Cândido, Brazilian, Drama, Thriller, Political thriller, Portuguese, Cannes
Stranger Things Season Five: In Praise of the Keepers of the Role-Playing-Game Flame
ReviewJim SlotekStranger Things Season 5, Dungeons & Dragons, The role of role-playing games, Show creators the Duffer Brothers, Noah Schnapp, Joseph Quinn, Millie Bobby Brown, Madeleine L'Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Winona Ryde
Eternity: Till Death Do Us Part? Not So Fast!
By Chris Knight
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Original-Cin Chat: Zacharias Kunuk on Trolls, The Fog Lady, and True Love in Wrong Husband
ReviewJim SlotekZacharias Kunuk, TIFF '25, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), Canadian films, Canadian films at TIFF, Theresia Kappianaq, Haiden Angutimarik, Inuit directors, Drama, Fable, Indigenous storytelling
Hamnet: The Play's Ultimately the Thing, But Family, Love and Loss Make It Linger
ReviewJim SlotekScreen depictions of Shakespeare's family, Hamnet, Author Maggie O’Farrell, Chloé Zhao, Stories of the plague, Jessie Buckley), Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Jacobi Jupe, Cinematographer Lukasz Zal, Awards season movies
Sisu: Road to Revenge — Because Apparently the First One Wasn’t Wild Enough
Blossoms Shanghai: Wong Kar-wai's 30-Episode Love Letter to the Robust City of his Birth
ReviewJim SlotekWong Kar-Wai, Film directors taking on TV series, Blossoms Shanghai, Jin Yucheng, Mao Dun literary Prize, '90s Shanghai as a moneymaking Wild West, Ge Hu, Zhilei Xin, Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, The Sun Rises on Us All, Yan Tang, Yili Ma
