Blood in the Snow Film Fest: DIY Dread From Canada's Creepshow Up-and-Comers
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCanadian horror filmmakers, DIY filmmaking, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Kelly Michael Stewart, Larry Kent’s, She Who Must Burn, James Villeneuve, Pins and Needles, Vivieno Caldinelli’s Scared Shitless, Steven Ogg, Isabel Bader Theatre
Four Fantastic Fall Festivals for Discerning Film Fans
PreviewJim SlotekArchitecture and Design Film Festival, Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines, Rendezvous with Madness, WaaPaKe, A Man Imagined, Drive Back Home, Cinéfranco, Babel et Adams, Les Filles D’Olfa, Omar la Fraise, The Mother and The Bear, Can I Get A Witness?, Reel Asian Film Festival, 1995, Le Bleu de Caftan, Toronto Film Festivals
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Growing Up a Little in its Final Season
Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnimated Star Trek series, Star Trek: Lower Decks final season, Spoofing the Trek franchise, Young Starfleet officers grow up, Show creator Mike McMahan, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 13
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, Dead Talents Society, Midnight Madness, Happyend, Centrepiece, TIFF Next Wave Selects, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Special Presentations, Pedro Páramo, Platform, Seven Days, The Quiet Ones, Discovery, The Substance, They Will Be Dust, Emilia Pérez, The Shadow Strays, The Penguins Lessons, The Last Republican, On Swift Horses, Russians at War, Else, Do I Know You From Somewhere?, The Gesuidouz
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 12
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, All of You, Special Presentations, Dead Mail, Midnight Madness, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Gala Presentations, Nightbitch, Nutcrackers, The Luckiest Man in America, The Swedish Torpedo, Centrepiece, We Live in Time, Your Tomorrow, TIFF Docs, Vice is Broke
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 11
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekA Missing Part, Centrepiece, Babygirl, Special Presentations, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, TIFF Docs, Ick, Midnight Madness, Saturday Night, The Girl With The Needle, The Shrouds, Gala Presentations, You Are Not Alone, Discovery
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 10
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekAnywhere Anytime Centrepiece, Centre, Escape from the 21st Century, Midnight Madness, Paul Anka: His Way, Special Presentations, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Gala Presentations, The Party’s Over, Discovery, Will & Harper, TIFF Docs, Winter in Sokcho, Platform, Universal Language, Centrepiece
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 9
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF '24, Kill the Jockey, Centrepiece, Riff Raff, Sad Jokes, Discovery, The Room Next Door, Triumph, Viktor, Platform, Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time, Short Cuts, Heretic
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 8
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, Anora, Conclave, Special Presentations, Meet the Barbarians, Gala Presentations, Rumours, Discovery, Village Keeper, Shook, The Last Showgirl, Friendship, Midnight Madness
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 7
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, Mr. K, The End, Matt and Mara, Centrepiece, Platform, Seeds, Space Cowboy, TIFF Docs, Discovery, Daniela Forever, Grand Tour, Wavelengths, U Are The Universe
TIFF ’24: What to See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 6
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekSuperboys of Malegaon, Gala Presentations, Daughter’s Daughter, Platform, Presence, Centrepiece, So Surreal: Behind the Masks, TIFF Docs, Flow, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
TIFF ’24: We’ve Noticed Themes… Many Interesting, Intersecting Themes
PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 24, 40 Acres, Can I Get a Witness, Flow, The Exiles, Souleymane’s Story, Anywhere Anytime, To a Land Unknown, Under the Volcano, Beloved Tropic, The Shrouds, Oh, Canada, They Will Be Dust, Dead Talents Society, Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe, Elton John: Never Too Late, The Road: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, The Mother and the Bear, Universal Language, Rumours, Sunshine, The Swedish Torpedo
Films We Can’t Wait to See at TIFF ‘24
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PreviewJim SlotekConclave, Megalopolis, Eden, The Substance, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Relay, Russians at War, Hard Truths, Carnival Is Over, Nutcrackers, Millers in Marriage, Elton John: Never Too Late, Saturday Night, Shell, Rumours, The Girl with the Needle, Queer, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Caught by the Tides, Triumph, The Last Showgirl \, The Wild Robot, On Swift Horses, Babygirl, All We Imagine as Light, Bonjour Tristesse, Flow', The Life of Chuck, TIFF 24, Galas, Special Presentations, Centrepiece, Discovery, Daniela Forever, The Luckiest Man in America, The End, All of You, Heretic, Anora
County Adaptation Film Fest: Prince Edward County's Small-Town Take on the Big Screen
Preview, InterviewJim SlotekPrince Edward County, Picton, Ontario, Small-town film festivals, County Adaptation Film Festival, Movies adapted from novels, Author interviews, Regent Theatre, Diana Sanchez, Alexandra Seay, Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot, Author Tilar J. Mazzeo, Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, Gord Downie’s Secret Path, Tanya Talaga, Charles Olivier-Michaud, Novelist Kim Thúy, Novelist Catherine Hernandez
Toronto Japanese Film Festival: Samurai, Thrills, Tofu and A Social Mirror
PreviewJim SlotekTsugaru Lacquer Girl, Toronto Japanese Film Festival, Don't Lose Your Head!, The Boy and The Heron – Special Edition, The Boy and the Heron Special Edition, The Klutzy Witch, Life Is Climbing, Mr. Jimmy, Landscapes of Home, Revolver Lily, Don’t Call It Mystery, Matched, All the Long Nights, Great Absence, Kanasando, Stay Mum, Mom, Mom Is That You?, Takano Tofu, Egoist, The Dancing Okami, (Ab)Normal Desire, MIssing
Inside Out Film and Video Festival: The Past is Present
PreviewJim SlotekInside Out, 2SLGBTQ+, Toronto Festival, My Old Ass, Megan Park, Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza, Brian J. Smith, A House Is Not a Disco, All Shall Be Well, Ray Yeung, Patra Au Ga-man, Maggie Li Lin-Lin, Rookie, Dalton’s Dream, Kim Longinotto, Franky Murray Brown, Susie Yankou, Sisters, Sarah Khasrovi, Conor McNally, nanekawâsis, Uncommonly Normal, Colette Johnson-Vosberg, David Secter, Winter Kept Us Warm
Mayworks Festival: Someone’s Still Doing the Dirty Work
PreviewJim SlotekMayworks, Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, Richelieu, Pier-Phillipe Chevigny, Marc-André Grondin, Ariane Castellanos, Marwan Barghouthi, Sophia Scott, Georgia Scott, Tomorrow’s Freedom
Hot Docs Made In Spain Program: Powerful, Topical Films from a Vibrant Nation
PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs '24, Docuementary, Festival, documentaries, The Click Trap, Made in Spain, Wild Gleaming Space, Flying Hands, My Sextortion Diary, Eyes of the Soul-Cristian García Rodero, Salt Covers All, Aitana, Back to Riaño, Aqueronte, Spanish language
Hot Docs ’24: What to See at the Planet’s Biggest Documentary Film Festival, Pt. 2
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PreviewJim SlotekDocumentaries, Film Festival, An Unfinished Journey, Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, Born Hungry, Curl Power, Death of a Saint, Fragments of a Life Loved, Nice Ladies, Okurimono, Power, So This Is Christmas, Streets Loud with Echoes, The Conquest of Space, The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine, Stories We Tell, Red Fever, Chasing Time, A, American Cats, Family Tree, Helen and the Bear
Hot Docs ’24: What to See at the Planet’s Biggest Documentary Film Festival, Pt. 1
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PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 24, Docuementary, film festival, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity, Big Moves, Black Box Diaries, Daughter of Genghis, Grand Theft Hamlet, Lost in the Shuffle, Marching In the Dark, Me, Michael and I, Never Look Away, XIXI, Uncle Bardo, The Here Now Project, My Sextortion Diary, Ari's Theme
