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Star Trek: Prodigy - Kate Mulgrew Gets Animated Talking About Her YA Trek Series

Star Trek: Prodigy - Kate Mulgrew Gets Animated Talking About Her YA Trek Series

By John Kirk

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 24, 2022Star Trek: Prodigy, Star Trek: Voyager, Kate Mulgrew, USS Protostar, Star Trek series for young people, Ella Purnell, Brett GrayComment

Original-Cin Q&A: The Good Nurse’s Redmayne and Chastain on Art Imitating Life

Original-Cin Q&A: The Good Nurse’s Redmayne and Chastain on Art Imitating Life

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 19, 2022The Good Nurse, Tobias Lindholm, Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, Q&A interviews, True crime, TIFF 2022Comment

Original-Cin Q&A: Cast of Lena Dunham's Catherine Called Birdy on Medieval Marriage and Bella Ramsey

Original-Cin Q&A: Cast of Lena Dunham's Catherine Called Birdy on Medieval Marriage and Bella Ramsey

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 4, 2022Medieval movies, Arranged marriage, Children's novels, Catherine Called Birdy, Lena Dunham, Bella Ramsey, Andrew Scott, Billie Piper, Joe AlwynComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Mila Kunis on Trauma in Luckiest Girl Alive, and How Meg May Sink Family Guy

Original-Cin Q&A: Mila Kunis on Trauma in Luckiest Girl Alive, and How Meg May Sink Family Guy

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 3, 2022Mila Kunis, Film about a trauma survivor, Luckiest Girl Alive, Novel by Jessica Knoll, Chiara Aurelia, Mike Barker, Glenn Close, Four Good Days, Family GuyComment

Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Guy Maddin Talks About His Now-Reconstructed Debut, 34 Years Later

Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Guy Maddin Talks About His Now-Reconstructed Debut, 34 Years Later

By Liam Lacey

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 2, 20224K remastering of Canadian classics, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Guy Maddin, Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Ron Mann, Canadian Cinema — Re-ignitedComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Quick Hits from Dead for a Dollar's Dafoe, Bratt, Waltz, Burke and Walter Hill

Original-Cin Q&A: Quick Hits from Dead for a Dollar's Dafoe, Bratt, Waltz, Burke and Walter Hill

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 29, 2022Dead for a Dollar, Walter Hill, Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt, Western, Drama, Period pieceComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Feature first-timer Sanaa Lathan on her hip-hop TIFF debut On the Come Up

Original-Cin Q&A: Feature first-timer Sanaa Lathan on her hip-hop TIFF debut On the Come Up

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 20, 2022Movies from Young Adult novels, On the Come Up, Hip-hop movies, Sanaa Lathan, Jamila C. Gray, Films that played TIFF 22Comment

A History of Shame in Canada's Game: We Interview the Principals Behind TIFF's Black Ice

A History of Shame in Canada's Game: We Interview the Principals Behind TIFF's Black Ice

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 12, 2022Black Ice, Racism in hockey, Hubert Davis, Coloured Hockey League, Herb Carnegie, Saroya Tinker, Vinay Virmani, P.K Subban, Akim Aliu, Wayne SimmondsComment

Original-Cin Interview: Buffy Sainte-Marie Comes to TIFF Where She Belongs

Original-Cin Interview: Buffy Sainte-Marie Comes to TIFF Where She Belongs

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 6, 2022Buffy Sainte-Marie, Singer-songwriter documentaries, Toronto International Film Festival, Celebration of Nations, Indigenous activists, Up Where We Belong, Oscar-winning songwritersComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Cast of New Tolkien-Based Series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Original-Cin Q&A: Cast of New Tolkien-Based Series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

By Bonnie Laufer

Preview, InterviewJim SlotekAugust 31, 2022The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, J.R.R. Tolkien, J. D. Payne, Patrick McKay, Middle-earth, Amazon, Prime Video, Lindsey Weber, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Sara Zwangobani, Robert Aramayo, Benjamin Walker, Sophia NomvetteComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Danish Villain-For-Hire Pilou Asbaek Talks Taking It to Stallone in Samaritan

Original-Cin Q&A: Danish Villain-For-Hire Pilou Asbaek Talks Taking It to Stallone in Samaritan

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekAugust 26, 2022Danish actors, Game of Thrones, Bergen, Pilou Asbaek, Samaritan, Sylvester Stallone, Javon Walton, Films based on graphic novelsComment

Original-Cin Q&A: The Sandman's Neil Gaiman Asks, 'Who Says the Endless Are a Dysfunctional Family?'

Original-Cin Q&A: The Sandman's Neil Gaiman Asks, 'Who Says the Endless Are a Dysfunctional Family?'

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekAugust 2, 2022The Sandman, Neil Gaiman, Allan Heinberg, Tom Sturridge, The Endless, Netflix, TV series based on graphic novelsComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod on the Real-Life Saga of My Old School

Original-Cin Q&A: Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod on the Real-Life Saga of My Old School

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 25, 2022Documentaries with re-creations, My Old School, Real-life fake high school students, Jono McLeod, Alan Cumming, Brandon Lee, Bearsden AcademyComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Some Words - Including 'Oh My!' - From George Takei on Voicing a Cat in Paws of Fury

Original-Cin Q&A: Some Words - Including 'Oh My!' - From George Takei on Voicing a Cat in Paws of Fury

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 11, 2022Animated movie voice stars, George Takei, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Michael Cera, Ricky Gervais, Cats versus dogs, Mel BrooksComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Karl Urban on Hunting Animated Sea Beasts and Being Covered in Blood on The Boys

Original-Cin Q&A: Karl Urban on Hunting Animated Sea Beasts and Being Covered in Blood on The Boys

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekJuly 4, 2022The Sea Beast, Netflix, Karl Urban, The Boys, Chris Williams, Zaris-Angel HatorComment

Interview (With SPOILERS): Star Trek's First Blind Actor on Cancer, Family and Facing Death

Interview (With SPOILERS): Star Trek's First Blind Actor on Cancer, Family and Facing Death

By John Kirk

Interview, PreviewJim SlotekJune 30, 2022Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Blind actors playing blind characters, Bruce Horak, Aenar, a blind species of the Andorian, Celia Rose Gooding, The Gorn, S1E9 “All Those Who Wander”, Characters who die Comments

Original-Cin Q&A: Inuit Horror Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk on her Debut Slash/Back and Goonies Influence

Original-Cin Q&A: Inuit Horror Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk on her Debut Slash/Back and Goonies Influence

By Thom Ernst

InterviewJim SlotekJune 23, 2022Canadian horror films, Slash/Back, Inuit directors, The Goonies, Young people fighting monsters, Pangnirtung, NunavutComment

Q&A/Review The Righteous: Republic of Doyle's Mark O'Brien's stark, gothic supernatural directorial debut

Q&A/Review The Righteous: Republic of Doyle's Mark O'Brien's stark, gothic supernatural directorial debut

By Jim Slotek

Review, InterviewJim SlotekJune 1, 2022The Righteous, Mark O'Brien, Republic of Doyle, Ready or Not, Henry Czerny, First-time feature directors, Supernatural gothic horrorComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Dakota's Tim Rozon talks dogs, bears, wolves, Schitt's Creek and Wynnona Earp

Original-Cin Q&A: Dakota's Tim Rozon talks dogs, bears, wolves, Schitt's Creek and Wynnona Earp

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMay 25, 2022Tim Rozon, Wynnona Earp, Schitt’s Creek, Surreal Estate, Movies about dogs, Dakota, Abbie Cornish, Lola Sultan, Patrick MuldoonComment

From the Inside Out Film Fest: The Twisty Gay History of Professional Wrestling and More

From the Inside Out Film Fest: The Twisty Gay History of Professional Wrestling and More

By Jim Slotek