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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

A Fan’s Notes: Fan Expo Veteran John Kirk Flashes Back to Rhys-Davies and More

A Fan’s Notes: Fan Expo Veteran John Kirk Flashes Back to Rhys-Davies and More

By John Kirk

PreviewJim SlotekAugust 24, 2022Comic Conventions, Toronto Fan Expo, Celebrity Q&As, Sean Astin, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, John Rhys-Davies Comment

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

The Toronto Japanese Film Festival is Back: Samurai, Yakuza, Manga and Tokyo trans life

The Toronto Japanese Film Festival is Back: Samurai, Yakuza, Manga and Tokyo trans life

By Jim Slotek

PreviewJim SlotekJune 17, 2022Toronto Japanese Film Festival, Return of live event film festivals, The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai, Last of the Wolves, Midnight Swan, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Japanese Academy Awards, Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?, Yukiko Sode’s Aristocrats, Mariko YamauchiComment

Female Eye Film Festival At 20: Making Women's History

Female Eye Film Festival At 20: Making Women's History

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekJune 9, 2022The Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto in the movies, Valerie Buhagiar, Carmen, Katie Boland, We're All in This Together, Leslie Ann Coles, Women's issues, Women in film, Lizzie Thynne, Independent Miss CraigieComment

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival: After 75 Years, A Rhapsody Reborn

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival: After 75 Years, A Rhapsody Reborn

By Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewJim SlotekJune 7, 202230th Toronto Jewish Film Festival, The Rhapsody, Leo Spellman, Famous Holocaust survivors, Paul Hoffert, Lighthouse, Stephen Fry, Rock Camp, The Movie, Rose, Aurélie Saada, Tromperie, Philip Roth, Let It Be Morning., Eran KolirinComment

Blue Mountain Film Festival: Familiar Hands Guide the Wheel of Fledgling Fest

Blue Mountain Film Festival: Familiar Hands Guide the Wheel of Fledgling Fest

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekMay 30, 2022Blue Mountain Film Festival, New Festival, In The Weeds, Fire of Love, Helen du Toit, Gangarene, Casablanca Beats, Diana Sanchez, Slash/BackComment

The Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival: A Festival of Free Films About Freedom

The Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival: A Festival of Free Films About Freedom

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekMay 24, 2022The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Hot Docs, Klabona Keepers, The Last Shelter, March For Dignity, Mujer de Soldado, Tacheles - The Heart of the Matter, Jennifer Baichwal, Nick De Pencier, Human Rights, Activism, DocumentariesComment

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

Hot Docs '22: Brief Encounters With the Best-Told, Real-Life Stories on the Planet

Hot Docs '22: Brief Encounters With the Best-Told, Real-Life Stories on the Planet

By Original-Cin Staff

Review, PreviewJim SlotekApril 26, 2022Hot Docs 2022, A House Made of Splinters, Beautiful Scars, Bernie Langile Wants To Know What Happened To Bernie Langile, Blue Island, Delikado, Million Dollar Pigeons, Scrap, Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten ChildrenComment

Hot Docs '22: Our Picks for the World’s Biggest & Best Documentary Film Festival

Hot Docs '22: Our Picks for the World’s Biggest & Best Documentary Film Festival

By Original-Cin Staff

National Canadian Film Day: Grade-Eh Cinema from Sun-Up to Sundown on Wednesday

National Canadian Film Day: Grade-Eh Cinema from Sun-Up to Sundown on Wednesday

By Jim Slotek

PreviewJim SlotekApril 18, 2022National Canadian Film Day, The F Word, The Stone Angel., Michael Dowse, Indian Horse, Falls Around Her, Tantoo Cardinal, C.R.A.Z.Y., Jean-Marc Vallée, David CronenbergComment

Original-Cin Year In Review: 2021’s Best and Worst Movies

By Original-Cin Staff

Review, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekDecember 29, 2021Pig, Nicolas Cage, The Card Counter, Oscar Isaac, Above Suspicion, Emelia Clarke, I'm Your Man, TIFF 2021, Hot Docs 2021., Nope, Jordan Peele, The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Flee, The Power of the Dog, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Jane Campion, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Avatar 2, Dune, Denis Villeneuve, Halloween Kills, Agnes, The Black Phone, Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, Maria Chapdelaine, The Northman, Robert Eggers, Encanto, The Sparks Brothers, Edgar Wright, Olivia Wilde, Judas and the Black Messiah, Drive My Car, Black Conflux, Killers of the Flower Moon, Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth, tick tick BOOM!, Coda, Paul Schrader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington Comment

Hollywood Suite at 10: And Now, A Word About a Sponsor and, Incidentally, The Fabulous Stains

Hollywood Suite at 10: And Now, A Word About a Sponsor and, Incidentally, The Fabulous Stains

By Jim Slotek

Preview, PromotionJim SlotekNovember 23, 2021Hollywood Suite, "Decades" movie programming, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, Ray Winstone, Diane Lane, The Great Waldo Pepper, Withnail & I, David Kines, Jay Switzer Comment

Blood in the Snow Film Fest: 9th Annual Edition of Horror... for Fans Who Can Hack It

Blood in the Snow Film Fest: 9th Annual Edition of Horror... for Fans Who Can Hack It

By Thom Ernst

PreviewJim SlotekNovember 17, 2021Blood in The Snow Film Festival, Blood In The Snow, Canadian movies, Canadian horror movies, HorrorComment

Reel Asian Festival turns 25: Best title! Best time travel story! And much, much more!

Reel Asian Festival turns 25: Best title! Best time travel story! And much, much more!

By Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewJim SlotekNovember 7, 2021The Reel Asian Film International Film Festival, Films by Asians and Asian diaspora, Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes, Inbetween Girl, I Was a Simple Man, Christopher Makoto Yog, Documentary on overachieving Asian student cultureComment

29th Rendezvous with Madness Revisits Todd Haynes’ Safe, a '90s Drama Capturing the Anxiety of the Moment

29th Rendezvous with Madness Revisits Todd Haynes’ Safe, a '90s Drama Capturing the Anxiety of the Moment

By Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewJim SlotekOctober 29, 2021Film festivals, Mental health issues, Rendezvous with Madness film and arts festival, Todd Haynes’ masterpiece, Safe, Julianne Moore, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’s Kimmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, Anny, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, The Last ShelterComment

ImagineNATIVE Festival: Catching Up With an Historic Indigenous Film Wave

ImagineNATIVE Festival: Catching Up With an Historic Indigenous Film Wave

By Liam Lacey, Thom Ernst & Jim Slotek

Review, PreviewJim SlotekOctober 19, 2021ImagineNATIVE and Media Arts Festival, National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Beans, Ste. Anne, Night Raiders, Kimmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy., Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Portraits From A FireComment

10 minutes of Dune: An intriguing glimpse of Denis Villeneuve’s 'unfilmable' film

10 minutes of Dune: An intriguing glimpse of Denis Villeneuve’s 'unfilmable' film

By Liam Lacey

PreviewJim SlotekJuly 22, 2021Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Frank Herbert sci-fi novel, Special 10-minute advance teaser, Timothée Chalamet, Toronto International Film Festival, David Lynch, Greig FraserComment

The Future of Film Showcase: A gem on CBC Gem is a free fest of films that count in small amounts

The Future of Film Showcase: A gem on CBC Gem is a free fest of films that count in small amounts

By Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewJim SlotekJuly 8, 2021Comment