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Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Patrick J. Adams on Secrets and Lies in The Swearing Jar

Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Patrick J. Adams on Secrets and Lies in The Swearing Jar

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekDecember 21, 2022The Swearing Jar, TIFF 2022, Patrick J. Adams, Lindsay MacKay, Kathleen Turner, Adelaide Clemens, Canadian, Canadian dramaComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Matthias Schweighöfer on the Syrian women refugee athletes who inspired The Swimmers

Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Matthias Schweighöfer on the Syrian women refugee athletes who inspired The Swimmers

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 21, 2022Toronto International Film Festival, The Swimmers, Yusra and Sara Mardini, Syrian refugees women athletes, Sally El Hosaini, Matthias Schweighöfer, Sven Spannenkrebs, Manal Issa, Nathalie IssaComment

Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: Ingrid Veninger on the Beauty of Brevity and Filming with Family

Shorts Not Pants Film Festival: Ingrid Veninger on the Beauty of Brevity and Filming with Family

By Jim Slotek

Interview, PreviewJim SlotekNovember 17, 2022Short film showcases, Shorts Not Pants Film Festival, Ingrid Veninger, Jacob Switzer, Hannah Bussiere, If You Were MeComment

Original-Cin Q&A: My Father's Dragon's Jacob Tremblay on voicing animated films as his voice changes

Original-Cin Q&A: My Father's Dragon's Jacob Tremblay on voicing animated films as his voice changes

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekNovember 13, 2022Jacob Tremblay, Child actors growing up, The Little Mermaid, My Father’s Dragon, Netflix movies, Gaten MaterrazoComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Henry Cavill on Enola Holmes 2, and His Return to the Cape as Superman

Original-Cin Q&A: Henry Cavill on Enola Holmes 2, and His Return to the Cape as Superman

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 31, 2022Enola Holmes 2, Henry Cavill returns to Superman role, The Witcher, Millie Bobby Brown, Sherlock Holmes' siblings, Harry Bradbeer, Sam ClaifinComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Wendell & Wild’s James Hong on Animation and the Enduring Genius of Seinfeld

Original-Cin Q&A: Wendell & Wild’s James Hong on Animation and the Enduring Genius of Seinfeld

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 25, 2022James Hong, Wendell & Wild, Henry Selick, TIFF 2022, Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Key & Peele, Animated film, Animated movie voice starsComment

Original-Cin Q&A: Decision to Leave's Park Chan-wook on Noir, Hitchcock and Femmes Fatale

Original-Cin Q&A: Decision to Leave's Park Chan-wook on Noir, Hitchcock and Femmes Fatale

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 25, 2022Park Chan-wook, Vengeance Trilogy, Decision to Leave, Park Hae-il, Wei Tang, Noir, Hitchcock, Mikio Naruse, Obsession, Femme fatalesComment

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