Original-Cin Q&A: Atom Egoyan and David Thewlis talk up film about an overzealous health inspector with a secret
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Rachel McAdams watched 'every Bjork interview' for the comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekEurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Netflix movies, Will Ferrell, Icelandic characters, Rachel McAdams, David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers, Pierce Brosnan, Demi Lovato, Dan Stevens, Downton Abbey, Spoof of Scandivavian pop stars, Bjork, Jaja Ding Dong
Original-Cin Q&A: The makers of Boys State - in which politically opposed teens show adults how to govern - tout their Sundance winning doc
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekBoys State, Student politicians, Mock government exercises, American Legion, Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Hot Docs 2020, Film festivals streaming during COVID-19, Free streaming event for Hot Docs members, Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine, Bill Clinton as a boy shaking JFK's hand, Political opposites compromising
Original-Cin Q&A: Agnieszka Holland talks about her 'Ukrainian Holocaust' movie Mr. Jones and the lesson of stifling press
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Review/Interview: Stealing School director Li Dong talks 'Asian Fs,' school's exaggerated importance and absurd tribunals
Review, InterviewJim SlotekStealing School, Li Dong, Academic tribunals, plagiarism accusations, Celine Tsai, racism, Jonathan Keltz, Over importance of academia, Michelle Monteith, Matthew Edison, Mpho Koah, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz
Original-Cin Q&A: Teen scream-queen Lulu Wilson on the bloody revenge movie Becky, Star Trek: Picard and feminism
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekLulu Wilson, Becky, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Annabelle: Creation, The Haunting of Hill House, Teenage scream-queen, Kevin Jame, Star Trek PIcard, Gloria Steinem, Female empowered horror films
Original-Cin Q&A: Palestinian director Elia Suleiman talks about his absurdist approach to inflammatory reality
Review, InterviewJim SlotekElia Suleiman, It Must Be Heaven, Palestinian filmmaker, Absurdist social comment, Guy Sprung, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Movies released online during pandemic, Yasmine Hamdan, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati
Original-Cin Q&A: Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer talks about the importance of being Irish and having Colin Farrell as his onscreen avatar
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekArtemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, Children's book series turned movie, Kenneth Branagh, Ferdia Shaw, Nonso Anozie, Tamara Smart, Judi Dench, Josh Gad, Colin Farrell, Schitt's Creek
Original-Cin Q&A: Dads director Bryce Dallas Howard recalls Ron's advice not to make a 'Bryce-loves-her-dad' doc
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekBryce Dallas Howard, Dads documentary, Ron Howard, Rance Howard, Father's Day, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel', Will Smith, Celebrity dads, Daddy bloggers
Original-Cin Q&A: Emmy winner R.J. Cutler talks about the heart-touching doc series Dear... on AppleTV+
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekDear...., AppleTV+, R.J. Cutler, Jane Goodall, Spike Lee, Big Bird, Stevie Wonder, Misty Copeland, Oprah Winfrey, Yara Shahidi, Bruce Springsteen's The Rising, Celebrity fan letters that change lives, The War Room, D. A. Pennebaker, Dont Look Back, Chris Hegedus
Original-Cin Q&A: Director and co-star of the darkly comic puppeteering drama share thoughts on marionettes and violence
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Upload's Robbie Amell talks about digital life and death, and the series' satire of class division
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekUpload, Robbie Amell, Greg Daniels, Andy Allo, Uploading human consciousness, Amazon Prime, Code-8, Stephen Amell, Italia Ricci, Social class, Out of control technology, Desperados, Nasim Pedrad, Canadian actors
Raising the Dead: Savvy Doc Puts George A. Romero’s 1968 Horror Classic in Fresh Light
Preview, Review, InterviewHollywood Suite, George A. Romero, documentary, Raising the Dead: Re-Examining Night of the Living Dead, Ryan Mains, Duane Jones, Kyra Schon, Roger Ebert, Geoff Pevere, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Horror, Zombies, Cult Classic
Original-Cin Q&A/review: Bruce McDonald on that Easter Egg in Pontypool, and casting two Stephen McHatties in Dreamland
Review, InterviewJim SlotekBruce McDonald, Pontypool, Dreamland, Post-credit Easter Eggs, Stephen McHattie, Tony Burgess, Underworld dramas, Hit-men, Vampires, Juliette Lewis, Henry Rollins, Chet Baker, Belgium, Wallonia, Luxembourg City
Original-Cin Q&A: Director Alexandre O. Philippe Dives Deep Into William Friedkin’s The Exorcist
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Lisa Michelle Cornelius talks about the pre-fab band series Band Ladies, learning to play and scream/sing
InterviewJim SlotekBand Ladies, Canadian comic actresses, Adults forming bands, Second City, Lisa Michelle Cornelius, Molly Flood, Dana Puddicombe, Kate Fenton, Kirsten Rasmussen, Vicki Kim, Christian Hansen, Highballtv.com, Star Trek: Short Treks, Tricia Black
Original-Cin Q&A: Daveed Diggs talks TV's Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho and seeing himself onstage in Hamilton for the first time
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekSnowpiercer, TV spinoffs of hit films, Bong Joon-ho, Daveed Diggs, Hamilton, Broadway plays streaming at home, Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, Central Park animated series, Blindspotting, Soul
Original-Cin Q&A: Kristian Bruun talks Mars in Red Rover and dishes the upcoming Orphan Black charity reunion on HOMECON
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekKristian Bruun, Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black, Carter, Jerry O’Connel, Red Rover, Canadian films, Cara Gee, Civilian volunteers for Mars missions, Shane Belcourt, HOMECON, Orphan Black reunion for charity, Paul Amos, Zoom, The Handmaid's Tale, Ready Or Not, Avocado Toast
Original-Cin Q&A: The voice of Goofy speaks about his new Disney+ show It's a Dog's Life With Bill Farmer
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Dan Lanigan, curator of Disney+'s Prop Culture, talks about his search for collectible Mouse droppings
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekProp Culture, Disney+ TV series, Movie collectibles, Dan Lanigan, Mary Poppins, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Disney Archives, Rick Moranis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Charlie Fleischer
