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Original-Cin Q&A: Won't You Be My Neighbor's Morgan Neville on Mister Rogers, his counsel to Yo-Yo Ma and his beautiful legacy

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJune 5, 2018Documentaries, Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Won't You Be My Neighbor, PBS, Morgan Neville, 20 Feet From Stardom, Children's televsion, Presbyterian

Original-Cin Q&A: Trailer Park Boys actor talks about his powerful reverse-racial-profile drama Black Cop

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekMay 29, 2018Racial profiling, Police shootings of blacks, Halifax, PTSD, Cory Bowles, Trailer Park Boys, Toronto International Film Festival

Original-Cin Q&A: Solo/Avengers' Paul Bettany was told a decade ago he'd never work again

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMay 21, 2018Star Wars, Han solo prequel, Dryden Vos, Paul Bettany, Ron Howard, Joss Whedon, Avengers, Vision, JARVIS

Original-Cin Q&A: Mary Steenburgen talks Book Club, accordion and 'magical unicorn' Diane Keaton

By Bonnie Läufer

InterviewJim SlotekMay 14, 2018Comedies, Veteran actresses, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen, Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton, E.L. James, Fifty Shades Of Grey, The Last Man On Earth

Original-Cin interview/review: Doc shines light on women chefs who turned up The Heat

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekMay 9, 2018Documentaries, Gender parity, Celebrity chefs, Women's issues, Restaurant culture, Hot Docs, Gordon Ramsay

Borg vs McEnroe: Director and Actors on Reality Story... And The Debut of One Leo Borg

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekApril 9, 2018Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, fact based drama, Janus Metz, TIFF 2017, sports movies

Original-Cin Q&A: Director Andrew Haigh and the gritty boy-and-his-horse film Lean On Pete

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekApril 9, 2018Horse racing, Coming-of-age stories, Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, American frontier, Red state, Homelessness, Andrew Haigh

Original-Cin Interview/Review: Jim Gaffigan talks Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekApril 3, 2018Ted Kennedy, Camelot, Chappaquiddick, Joe Kennedy, Jim Gaffigan, Ed Helms, Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Historical drama, Political scandal

Original-Cin Q&A/review: Abusive vibe between two women in Allure is blisteringly dark

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekApril 2, 2018Psychological thriller, Abusive relationships, Canadian movies, Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Sarah Stone, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Westworld, Toronto International Film Festival

Original-Cin Q&A/review: Journey's End's shell-shock rings true in the PTSD era

By Liam Lacey

InterviewJim SlotekMarch 29, 2018World War I, R.C. Sherriff, Trench warfare, PTSD, Shell shock, Paul Bettany, Saul Dibb, Prince Andrew, First World War Centenary

Original-Cin Q&A: The Office's John Krasinski takes horror-directing plunge in A Quiet Place

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMarch 27, 2018John Krasinski, Actors turned director, The Office, Horror films, post-apocalypse, Emily Blunt, Celebrity married couples, Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck

Original-Cin Q&A: Vet Director Rob Cohen on Battling Racism and Hurricanes

By Jim Slotek

InterviewMarch 5, 2018Rob Cohen, Director, Fast and the Furious, Producer, Action, Maggie Grace

The Chi and Boost's bad guy Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine: 'Not African enough?'

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekFebruary 26, 2018Street crime drama, Youth crime, African-Canadians, African actors, The Chi, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Treme, Heroes, Queen of Katwe

Original-Cin Q&A: Ex Machina/Annihilation director Alex Garland writes his own career arc

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekFebruary 19, 2018Ex Machina, Alex Garland, Natalie Portman, Science fiction, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Original-Cin Q&A: Director Jeff Malmberg on the Convergence of Trauma, Ritual and Art

By Liam Lacey

InterviewFebruary 9, 2018documentaries, Italy, Marwencol, Chris Sellen, Jeff Malmberg

Original-Cin Q&A: Chilean Oscar nom, LGBT-themed A Fantastic Woman

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekFebruary 5, 2018Foreign-language Oscar, Chilean films, LGBT rights, transgender issues

'Holy hand grenades!' How the Flashback Film Festival's Holy Grail found its groove

By Jim Slotek

Views, InterviewJim SlotekJanuary 31, 2018Flashback Film Fest, '70s movies, '80s movies, '90s movies, Monty Python, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Monty Python's Flying Circus

Original-Cin Q&A: Was Helter Skelter a hoax? Manson doc director says yes

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekJanuary 28, 2018documentary, Charles Manson, Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi

Original-Cin Q&A: Annette Bening and Jamie Bell on why Film Stars (Really and Truly) Don’t Die in Liverpool

By Kim Hughes

InterviewJanuary 24, 2018TIFF 2017, Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, fact based drama, Julie Walters

Original-Cin Q&A Birdland: Peter Lynch on quitting docs and going noir

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekJanuary 22, 2018Peter Lynch, Noir, Documentaries, Stephen McHattie, Ornithology, Atom Egoyan, Paul Quarrington, Bruce McDonald, Directors Guild of Canada