Original-Cin Q&A: Grown-up child stars Adam Brody and Sophie Nélisse talk about the quirky The Kid Detective
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekThe Kid Detective, Adam Brody, The O.C., Sophie Nélisse, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Former child stars, Evan Morgan, The Dirties, Quebecoise actresses, Canadian movies
The Cuban: Interview/review of a Canadian film that overcame pandemic paralysis by barn-storming the drive-ins
Interview, ReviewJim SlotekSergio Navarretta, The Cuban, Drive-in theatre events, Cuban-Canadian pianist Hilario Duran, Louis Gossett Jr., Ana Golja, Degrassi: Next Class, Pan African Film Festival in L.A, Lavazza Drive-In Film Festival, Glen Campbell, Spirit of the West’s John Mann, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Giacomo Gianniotti, Alzheimer's
Original-Cin Q&A: Star Cathy Ang on Playing Smart, Cool, Inspirational Girl in Over the Moon
By Bonnie Laufer
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Interview, PreviewJim SlotekAnimation, Netflix, Over the Moon, Ken Jeong, Sandra Oh, Cathy Ang, Glen Keane, Children's movies, Asian Americans, Fantasy, Margaret Cho
Original-Cin Q&A: I Am Greta director recalls pointing his camera at a lone activist and following the family through a media storm
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Colin O'Donoghue on playing 'Gordo' Cooper in Disney's series version of The Right Stuff
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekThe Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe, 1983 movie, Disney Plus series remake, Mercury 7 astronauts, Colin O'Donoghue, Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Once Upon A Time, Space Camp, Jake McDorman, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Patrick J. Adams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Moon landing 50th anniversary
Original-Cin Q&A: Director Clark Johnson on the GMO activist drama Percy, Christopher Walken anecdotes, and a chance to direct Lovecraft Country
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekAnti-GMO activism, Percy, Percy Schmeiser, Christopher Walken, Roberta Maxwell, Zach Braff, Luke Kirby, Adam Beach, Martin Donovan, Clark Johnson, Cesar Chavez, The Dead Zone, Michael J. Fox, Night Heat, The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street, Sonny Grosso, Lovecraft Country
TIFF 'In Conversation': Barry Jenkins' and Claire Denis' mutual admiration session ponders violence and the value of trust in film
InterviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival’s In Conversation With…, Barry Jenkins, Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Claire Denis, Chocolat, Josh Safdie, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Mati Diop, Atlantics, Outkast’s Andre Benjamin, The Weeknd, Herman Melville’s novella, Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten’s opera Billy Budd, High Life, Beau Travail
Barry Levinson and Denzel Washington ‘In Conversation’ at TIFF: Hollywood titans trade tales and insights
Interview, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, In Coversation With, Denzel Washington, Barry Levinson, Rain Man, Diner, Fences, Antwone Fisher, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman
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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