Becky: Surly teen girl versus neo-Nazis thriller proves it's not just looks that can kill
ReviewJim SlotekBecky, Teen girl revenge movie, Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion, Lulu Wilson, Star Trek: Picard, Kevin James, White power skinhead villains, Joel McHale, Amanda Brugel, Robert Maillet
Phoenix, Oregon: Likeable Dramedy about Midlife Rebirth Comforting if Conventional
Review, PreviewGary Lundgren, Phoenix Oregon, James Le Gros, Jesse Borrego, Lisa Edelstein, Diedrich Bader, Kevin Corrigan, Comedy, Bowling, Bowling movies, The Big Lebowski, Sideways
Rescuing Rex: An often harrowing look at where those rescue dogs came from, and how they got that way
ReviewJim SlotekInternational rescue dogs, Leora Eisen, Rescuing Rex, TVO documentary, Nicole Simone, Redemption Paws, Mary Choi, Adopt-a-Doggie, Taiwan, Texas, Lack of regulation in dog trafficking, Baby Boomers vs Millennials
Online Toronto Jewish Film Festival kicks off, ironically, with a Skype-based troubled marriage story
By Linda Barnard
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekToronto Jewish Film Festival’s online fest, Film festivals reacting to COVID-19, Keren Ben Rafael, The End of Love, Judith Chemla, Give Me Liberty, Those Who Remained, Short Lily, 1950s comic book illustration pioneer Lily Renée Phillips, Dayan: The First Family, Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Raising the Dead: Savvy Doc Puts George A. Romero’s 1968 Horror Classic in Fresh Light
Preview, Review, InterviewHollywood Suite, George A. Romero, documentary, Raising the Dead: Re-Examining Night of the Living Dead, Ryan Mains, Duane Jones, Kyra Schon, Roger Ebert, Geoff Pevere, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Horror, Zombies, Cult Classic
Space Force: A comic slow burn, but a nicely grounded Steve Carell series based on a real life ridiculous idea
ReviewJim SlotekSpace Force, Steve Carell, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Greg Daniels, Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi', John Malkovich, Jimmy O. Yang, Diana Silvers, Tawny Newsome, U.S. returning to space, Netflix series
Original-Cin Q&A/review: Bruce McDonald on that Easter Egg in Pontypool, and casting two Stephen McHatties in Dreamland
Review, InterviewJim SlotekBruce McDonald, Pontypool, Dreamland, Post-credit Easter Eggs, Stephen McHattie, Tony Burgess, Underworld dramas, Hit-men, Vampires, Juliette Lewis, Henry Rollins, Chet Baker, Belgium, Wallonia, Luxembourg City
The Trip to Greece: Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon Foodie Franchise Finale Hits the Spot
Military Wives: Formulaic Dramedy from Full Monty Director Pleasant but Dull
The Painter and the Thief: Unsettling Norwegian doc considers art for art's sake, and the possible damage done
Capone: Weird Biopic of Infamous Gangster Like Rubbernecking A Wreck Despite Tom Hardy
Beyond Moving: A South African child street-performer's problematic journey to ballet's global stages
Upload: Enjoyably quirky series set inside a digital afterlife, where your credit rating still matters
ReviewJim SlotekDigital life after death, Upload, Amazon Prime series, The Office, Greg Daniels, Space Force, Robbie Amell, Stephen Amell, Jordan Johnson-Hinds, Corporate satire, Andy Allo, William B. Davis, Rhys Slac, Kevin Bigley, Elizabeth Bowen, Allegra Edwards
Red Rover: 'Meeting cute' while planning the ultimate in self-isolation on Mars
ReviewJim SlotekLow budget sci-fi films, Red Rover, Shane Belcourt, Another Earth, Computer Chess, Clara, James Vs. His Future Self, Civilian volunteers for Mars missions, Shane belcourt, Kristian Bruun, Orphan Black, Cara Gee
They Call Me Dr. Miami: Portrait of a plastic surgeon who'll never need a grandiosity transplant
By Linda Barnard
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Michelle Obama and Dalai Lama Together at Last (OK, Not Really) in Fawning New Docs
This Is Not A Movie: Doc on Robert Fisk Examines The Fraught Business of Reporting on War
Meat the Future: CBC Hot Docs doc asks, 'How now, grown cow-sample?'
ReviewJim SlotekCell-grown meat, Hot Docs 2020 on CBC, Memphis Meats, Liz Marshall, Meat the Future, Ghosts in Our Machine, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Tyson Foods, Dr. Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese
Spaceship Earth: Remembering the Biosphere 2 bio-nauts and their complex plan to REALLY self-isolate
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekLiving in isolation, Planning for a space experience, Spaceship Earth, Biosphere 2, Matt Wolf, John Allen, Edward Bass, Steve Bannon, The Heraclitius, Theatre for the Reconstitution of Reality, Johnny Dolphin
National Theatre's Frankenstein: The play's the (free) thing, with Cumberbatch and Miller
ReviewJim SlotekStage plays streamed during quarantine, National Theatre production of Frankenstein, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny Lee Miller, National Theatre at Home, Antony & Cleopatra, Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Danny Boyle, Mary Shelley, Karl Johnson
