Peninsula: Sequel to the South Korean zombie hit Train to Busan gives you more of everything, except originality
The Secret Garden: Dreamlike and luminous take on the classic children's tale is a visual feast
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, Misselthwaite Manor, Julie Walters, Amir Wilson, Jack Thorne, Marc Munden, Children's stories with dark undertones
The Burnt Orange Heresy: Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland Propel Lofty Crime Drama
ReviewThe Burnt Orange Heresy, Giuseppe Capotondi, TIFF 2019, Mick Jagger, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Debicki, Claes Bang, Crime drama, Charles Willeford, Art fraud, Scott B. Smith
Spinster and I Used to Go Here: Smart Female Dramedies Boost the Rom-Com Game
ReviewSpinster, I Used to Go Here, Kris Rey, Gillian Jacobs, Chelsea Peretti, Fe, female relationships, rom-com, Andrea Dorfman, Jemaine Clement, Comedy, Nadia Tonen
Red Penguins: The absurdist little-known story of how the Russian mob not-so-warmly greeted NHL investors
ReviewJim SlotekRussian hockey, Pre-Putin Russia, Red Penguins, Gabe Polsky, Red Army, Michael J. Fox, Mario Lemieux, Howard Baldwin, Viktor Tikhonov, Alexander Osadchy, Russian mob
The Great Green Wall: A drive-by tour of bio-resistance to the Sahara, with African music stars a'plenty
ReviewJim SlotekThe Great Green Wall, African desertification, Sahara, Environmental issues, Documentaries, Boko Haram, Music for humanitarian causes, Inna Modja, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Biz Stone, Songhoy Blues, Betty G, Ethiopia
Working Man: Poignant, Low-Key Drama the Proverbial Diamond in the Rough
Random Acts of Violence: Jay Baruchel’s Long-Lead Slasher/Horror Flick Doesn’t Quite Kill
ReviewJay Baruchel, Random Acts of Violence, Jordana Brewster, Jesse Williams, slasher flick, horror, comic book, Canadian film, Jesse Chabot, Goon
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful - a snapshot of maybe-misogynist, provocative fashion photography
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekHelmut Newton, Documentary, Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful, Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour, Provocative fashion photography, Gero von Boehm, Alice Springs, Leni Riefenshtal, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Grace Jones, Nadja Auerman, Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Schiffer, Hanna Schygulla, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sontag, Misogyny in fashion
Life Is Easy: Freaky Friday Premise Gets Daring New Spin in Brash Kiwi Series
Preview, ReviewLife Is Esay, Cole Jenkins, New Zealand, Comedy, Series, LGBTQ, Freaky Friday, Queer as Folk, Gay Film, Gender issues
Enter the Fat Dragon: Ill-Advised Remake of Spoof Comedy Wastes Its Bankable Lead
ReviewEnter the Fat Dragon, Kung-fu, Kenji Tanigaki, Wong Jing, Donnie Yen, Teresa Mo, Niki Chow, Bruce Lee, Spoof, martial arts, remake
White Riot: Doc Chronicles Vintage, Punk-Fuelled (And Oh So Timely) Anti-Racism Crusade
ReviewWhite Riot, documentary, Music documentaries, Rubika Shah, Punk rock, The Clash, Tom Robinson, Steel Pulse, The Selecter, Anti-racism, Rock Against Racism
The Truth: Director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Nod to French Cinema Propels Ace Family Drama
ReviewThe Truth, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Clementine Grenier, Manon Clavel, French cinema, Family drama, Film within a film, TIFF 2018
The Beach House: Low-Budget Horror Makes Hay from H.P. Lovecraft Tradition
Greyhound: Captain Tom Hanks writes and delivers a tight, tense, theatre-experience war film
ReviewJim SlotekTom Hanks, Rita Wilson, COVID-19 effect on movies, Saving Private Ryan, Greyhound, C. S. Forester, The Good Shepherd, Battle of the Atlantic, Elisabeth Shue, War movies, Naval battle movies, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan, The Enemy Below, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Aaron Schneider
Family Romance LLC: Herzog's fiction-documentary hybrid explores a world of paid surrogates for all aspects of Japanese life
ReviewJim SlotekWerner Herzog, amily Romance LLC, Yuichi Ishii, Surrogates hired to play friends and family, Japanese culture, Fiction/documentary hybrids, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alps, Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, Sasha Grey, MUBI streaming service
Money Machine: Chronicle of Vegas Mass Shooting Neither Probing Nor Convincing
Suzi Q: Doc on Rocker Suzi Quatro Delivers Stars but Dodges Paradoxes
Original-Cin Presents… Films to Fire Your Canada Day (Since Group BBQs are Pretty Much Out)
By Original-Cin Staff
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Views, Review, PreviewCanadian movies, Shivers, David Cronenberg, Little Italy, Meatballs, John Candy, Rip-Off, Face-Off, It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time, Never Cry Wolf, The Silent Partner, Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer, Bill Murray, Ivan Reitman
Broadway's Hamilton survives its transition to Disney with passion intact, albeit minus an F-bomb or three
ReviewJim SlotekHamilton, Disney Plus, Broadway musicals filmed for home streaming, King George III, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Rodgers Theatre, Thomas Kail, Fosse/Verdon, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr, What Did I Miss, You’ll Be Back, Burr, Sir
