TIFF Q&A: Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky on replicating the madness at home, and answering our Get The Hell Out review
InterviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival, Midnight Madness, Programmer Peter Kuplowsky, Shadow In The Cloud, Alex Winter's Freaked, Tetsuro Takeuchi's Guitar Wolf, Get The Hell Out, Taiwanese zombie movie, I.-Fan Wang, Edgar Wright, Stephen Chow, Temple of Devilbuster
TIFF press conference: How Idris Elba learned to love his horse on Concrete Cowboy
By Linda Barnard
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InterviewJim SlotekIdris Elba, Concrete Cowboy, Jamil “Mil” Prattis, Philadelphia's Fletcher Street Stables, Caleb McLaughlin, Stranger Things, Lorraine Toussaint, Orange is the New Black, Toronto International Film Festival, Jharrel Jerome, Moonlight, Lee Daniels, Ricky Staub, Greg Neri’s 2009 novel Ghetto Cowboy, Actors learning to ride a horse
Saoirse Ronan ‘In Conversation’ Reveals Acclaimed Actor’s Debt to Her Directors
Interview, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Saoirse Ronan, In Coversation With, Kate Winslet, Lady Bird, greta gerwig, Brooklyn, John Crowley, Timothée Chalamet, Anne T. Donahue
TIFF press conference: Quarantined in North Bay, Penguin Bloom's Naomi Watts talks bird poop, wheelchairs and personal struggle
InterviewJim SlotekNaomi Watts, Naomi Watts quarantined in North Bay, Phillip Noyce thriller Lakewood, Penguin Bloom, "Support animal" birds, Magpies, The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver, Emma Cooper, Bruna Papandrea, Glendyn Ivin, Sam and Cam Bloom., Paralyzing accident, Wheelchair training, Bird poop
Halle Berry, 'In Conversation,' talks about starring in her own directorial debut Bruised, and the long shut-out of Black Best Actresses
By Linda Barnard
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InterviewJim SlotekHalle Berry, Bruised, Netflix, MMA fighter movies, Distribution deals at TIFF, Actors directing themselves, Actors directing debuts, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Jungle Fever., Monster’s Ball., First Black Best Actress Oscar winner
TIFF Press Conference: Debut Director Regina King (One Night in Miami…) on Breaking Ground, Being Black
By Linda Barnard
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Interview, PreviewRegina King, One Night in Miami…, TIFF 2020, Press conferences, Eli Goree, Leslie Odom Jr., Kingsley Ben-Adir, adaptation, Aldis Hodge, Kemp Powers, Black Lives Matter, Gala Presentations
Original-Cin TIFF interview: Michelle Latimer on outrageous Indigenous imagery and her stylistic approach to Thomas King's Inconvenient Indian
InterviewJim SlotekThe Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer, Old Fort William, Metis, Thomas King, History of Indigenous land losses, Toronto International Film Festival, Viceland Rise, Trickster, Eden Robinson, Trail of Tears, Ipperwash, Oka, Battle of Little Bighorn, Lakota Sioux, Crow tribe, Cultural appropriation, West Hollywood Halloween Parade, Caledonia, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock
Original-Cin Q&A: Tilda Cobham-Hervey on Embodying Feminist Icon Helen Reddy in New Biopic
By Bonnie Laufer
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Preview, InterviewTilda Cobham-Hervey, TIFF 2019, Biopic, I Am Woman, Jeff Ward, Unjoo Moon, Danielle Macdonald, Female director, 1970s, Lillian Roxon
Original-Cin Q&A: Hilary Swank and teen co-star on the Netflix space/family drama Away, and isolation here on Earth
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekNew Netflix series Away, Hilary Swank, Josh Charles, Talitha Bateman, Mission to Mars, Domestic life of astronauts, Mark Ivanir, Ato Essandoh, Ray Panthaki, Vivian Wu, Reproducing weightlessness with wires
Original-Cin Q&A: David Arquette touts his wrestling cred and new doc, and talks Scream 5
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekDavid Arquette, You Cannot Kill David Arquette., Ready to Rumble, Professional wrestling, WCW, Actors who become wrestlers, Randy (Macho Man) Savage, Nick Gage, Luke Perry, Scream 5, Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, Jenna Ortega, Wes Craven
Original-Cin Q&A: U.K. playwright/filmmaker Jessica Swale talks Summerland, and directing friends Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: SpongeBob SquarePants Stars on Why the Series Stays Afloat 20 Years On
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: The Secret Garden's Dixie Egerickx on the joy of shooting in a real garden and acting with kids instead of adults
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Micheál Richardson talks about filming with his dad Liam Neeson, in a movie that evokes his mom's death
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Director Kris Rey takes Community's Gillian Jacobs back to school in I Used To Go Here
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekI Used to Go Here, Back to college comedies, Kris Rey, Gillian Jacobs, Southern Illinois University, Unexpected, Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords, The Lonely Island, Andy Sandberg, Jorma Taccone, Ad-libbed lines, Movies about finding self-confidence
Original-Cin Q&A: Umbrella Academy’s Ellen Page and Steve Blackman on Superpowers, Family and Fact as Fiction
By Bonnie Laufer
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Preview, InterviewThe Umbrella Academy, Netflix series, superheroes, Ellen, Steve Blackman, American Civil Rights, John Lewis, Greensboro sit-ins, Historical action thriller
Original-Cin Q&A: Writer/director/co-star Jay Baruchel on his passion project Random Acts of Violence and the sad, scary decrepitude of rural towns
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekRandom Acts of Violence, Jay Baruchel, Horror movies, Copycat killers, Movies based on comic books, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Jordana Brewster, Niamh Wilson, Jesse Chabot, Scary rural shooting locations, Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Original-Cin Q&A: Lou Gossett Jr. on The Cuban, working with Canadians and lessons from a 117-year-old great-grandmother
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekLouis Gossett Jr., The Cuban, Movies about Cuban music, Movies about dementia, Shohreh Aghdashloo, House of Sand and Fog, Lauren Holly, Giacomo Gianniotti, Sergio Navarretta, The Book of Negroes, The James Mink Story, Roots, An Officer and Gentleman
Original-Cin Q&A: Jim Gaffigan on playing Rob Ford, performing drive-in stand-up and his two-part concert special on Prime
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekJim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist, Amazon Prime Video, Improvised material, Mayor, Rob Ford, CBS Sunday Morning, Drive-in standup comedy, Amazon Prime, Barcelona, Spain, Kitchener, Ontario, Target Number One, Josh Hartnett
Original-Cin Q&A: War journo Bob Woodruff and son Mack find the 'amazing' sides of trouble spots in Disney+'s Rogue Trip
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekWar correspondents, Bob Woodruff, Mack Woodruff, Rogue Trip, National Geographic, Disney+, War reporters wounded in action, The bright side of world trouble spots, Skull caves in Papua New Guinea, South American palm tree larvae, Father and son TV series
