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
Memories of Murder: Parasite Director’s 2nd Feature Offers Insight Into His Craft… and is Awesome
By Linda Barnard
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekBoon Joon-ho, Parasite, Memories of Murder, South Korean filmmakers, Sung-bo Shim, Kwang-rim Kim, Crime thriller, crime drama, Memories of Murder.
Toronto Jewish Film Festival: Gone Digital, Yes, But Still Exploring the Human Experience
By Linda Barnard
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Rebecca: New Take on Classic Daphne du Maurier Tale Haunted by Hitchcock Original
Review, PreviewJim SlotekDaphne Du Maurier, Gothic Romance, Thriller, Armie Hammer, Lily James, Kirstin Scott Thomas, Ben Wheatley, Rebecca, Netflix movies, Ann Dowd, Alfred Hitchcock, Remake
Making Monsters: Jumbled Horror Raids the Oeuvre for Bits and Pieces, Frankenstein-Style
I Am Greta: Up Close, Extremely Personal Doc on Teen Follows Global Crusade for Future
By Karen Gordon
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Soul-Baring Doc on Judy Rebick Kicks Off Virtual Rendezvous with Madness Festival
Body & Bones: Smitten Young Woman Making Bad Man Choices Remains Ripe Dramatic Terrain
Review, PreviewJim SlotekBody & Bones, Newfoundland, Melanie Oates, Kelly Van der Burg, Joel Thomas Hynes, Lawrence Barry, Jo Burg, Drama, Canadian
The Secrets We Keep: Post-War Thriller Entertaining Enough… If You Don’t Look Too Closely
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Secrets We Keep, Thriller, Nazis, Yuval Adler, Noomi Rapace, Chris Messina, Amy Seimetz, Joel Kinnaman, Hitchcockian, Drama, WWII
Totally Under Control: Trump’s Bungling of COVID-19 Pandemic Laid Bare in Timely Doc
When the Storm Fades: Curious Quasi-Documentary Highlights the Fallout from Deeds Gone Awry
The War with Grandpa: Shaky Kids-Versus-Codgers Comedy Too Blunt to Punt
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe War with Grandpa, Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Tim Hill, Oakes Fegley, Cheech Marin, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Comedy, Family film, Holiday, Mad Dog and Glory
The Complex: Lockdown: Dramatic Virus Thriller Not So Thrilling (or Dramatic)
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Complex: Lockdown, Paul Raschid, Thriller, Virus, Michelle Mylett, Al Weaver, Kim Adis, Kate Dickie, Pandemic, The Andromeda Strain, Drama
A Fire in The Cold Season: Canuck Noir Offers Artful Take on Crime Thriller Genre
The Glorias: Exhausting Gloria Steinem Biopic a Clear Case of Less Would be More
Review, PreviewJim SlotekJulie Taymor, The Glorias, Biopic, Gloria Steinem, Women's right, Alicia Vikander, Julianne Moore, Bette Midler, Timothy Hutton, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint
Inside Out and Toronto Japanese Film Festival Rise to Pandemic Challenges
Preview, ReviewJim SlotekInside Out, Toronto Japanese Film Festival, Shiva Baby, Jump Darling, It Feels So Good, Stardust, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson:, Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, Breaking Fast:, LBGTQ, The Journalist, To the Ends of the Earth, Tora San: Wish You Were Here, Pandemic movies, Film Festivals, Toronto, Atsuko Maeda
The Last Shift: Tone-Deaf ‘Comedy’ Plays to Stereotypes, Misses Chance for Insight
That’s A Wrap! The Best, Worst, and Weirdest at TIFF 2020
By Original-Cin Staff
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Views, Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNomadland, Chloe Zhao, Shiva, TIFF 2020, Limbo, One Night in Miami…, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, I Am Greta, Shadow In The Cloud, Quo Vadis, Concrete Cowboy, 76 Days, The Way I See It, Beans, Tracy Deer
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
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday to Saturday, September 17 to 19
By Original-Cin Staff
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Special Events, TIFF Docs, Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Shiva Baby, Underplayed, Enemies of the State, Gala Presentations, Good Joe Bell, Mark Wahlberg, Gary Sinise, Connie Britton, Gay rights, Toronto filmmaker, The Truffle Hunters, Primetime, A Suitable Boy, Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, Special Presentations, Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
