Measure For Measure: Aussie gangster take on the Bard is a glum and muddled way of saying payback doth be a bitch
ReviewJim SlotekMeasure for Measure, Contemporary Australian update of Shakespeare, Paul Ireland, Damian Hill, Hugo Weaving, Mark Leonard Winter, Duke of Vienna, Harrison Gilbertson, Romeo and Juliet, Megan Hajjar, Fayssal Bazzi, Stateless
I Propose That We Never See Each Other After Tonight: Rom-com tropes and over-plotting spoil the romance
ReviewJim SlotekMixed relationships, Romantic comedies, Sean Garrity, I Propose That We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight, Rom-com tropes, Kristian Jordan, Hera Nalam, Matthew Paris Irvine, Andrea Macasaet, Fiipinos
Away: Netflix space drama/soap opera has Hilary Swank in command and a whole lot of baggage back on Earth
ReviewJim SlotekNew Netflix series Away, Hilary Swank, Josh Charles, Talitha Bateman, Mission to Mars, Domestic life of astronauts, Mark Ivanir, Ato Essandoh, Ray Panthaki, Vivian Wu, Reproducing weightlessness with wires
The Golden Girl: Doc on Wrongly Disgraced Romanian Gymnast Poignant and Timely
Review, PreviewThe Golden Girl, documentary, Gymnastics, Olympics, Scandal, Drug scandal, Andreea Răducan, Denisa Morariu-Tamas, Nadia Comaneci, Simone Biles
I'm Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman creates a wonderfully odd, meet-the-parents fever dream
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekCharlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Inner-dialogue, Canadian author Iain Reid, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anomalisa, Traumatic meet-the-parents movie, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
The New Mutants: The Breakfast Club with super powers, and a badly adapted dead end for an old franchise
ReviewJim SlotekThe New Mutants, Josh Boone, The Fault in Our Stars, Sale of 20th Century Fox to Disney, 1982 graphic novel by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, Blu Hunt, Alice Braga, Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones, Henry Zaga, Charlie Heaton, Stranger Things, Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch
Bill & Ted Face the Music: Sci-Fi Comedy Reboot Dumb But Well-Meaning
Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia - O'Connor lives on in a personal doc, rumours of her 'cancellation' notwithstanding
ReviewJim SlotekFlannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia, Flannery O’Connor, Classic writers who've been cancelled, The New Yorker, ow Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?, Loyola College Maryland, Thea Bowman, Mark Bosco, PBS American Masters, Elizabeth Coffman, Tommy Lee Jones, Conan O’Brien, Alice Walker, Hilton Als\, Brad Gooch, Robert Giroux, Sally Fitzgerald, Erik Langkjaer, Good Country People, John Huston, Wise Blood
Fatima: Story about a famous test of childhood sainthood is also a test of patience
By Linda Barnard
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ReviewJim SlotekFatima, Sainthood of Portuguese children, Sighting of the Virgin Mary, Harvey Keitel, Sonia Braga, The Miracle of Our Lady of Fátima, Stephanie Gil, Alejandra Howard, Jorge Lamelas, Joana Ribeiro, Marco Pontecorvo, Pa-ra-da, Game of Thrones, Lúcia Moniz
The Prey: Human hunting season has been extended for no good reason in Cambodia
ReviewJim SlotekThe Prey, Jimmy Henderson, The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell, The Hunger Games, Surviving the Game, Humans hunting humans, Cambodia, Gu Shangwei, Vithaya Pansringarm, The Furies, The Hunt, Dy Sonita
Pariah Dog: Haunting and even poetic portrait of the street dogs of Kolkata is a must for animal lovers
All Joking Aside: Yet another sad drama about comedy that really does leave the jokes aside
ReviewJim SlotekDramas about comedians, Sad clown tropes, All Joking Aside, Canadian movies, Punchline, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, Shannon Kohli, James Pickering, Raylene Harewood, Brian Markinson, Mark Breslin, Yuk Yuk's comedy clubs, Graeme Thompso, Andrew “Dice” Clay
Original-Cin/Hollywood Suite Cross-Promo: Kim Hughes on Love Deliberately (Savagely) Broken
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Views, Preview, ReviewOriginal-Cin, Hollywood Suite, Kim Hughes, Cross-promo, Take This Waltz, Unfaithful, Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee, Sarah Polley, Adrian Lyne, Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez, Sarah Silverman
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Upholds Inherent Lunacy of Beloved Series
Review, PreviewSpongeBob SquarePants, Sponge on the Run, Tim Hill, Keanu Reeves, Akwafina, Animated film, adaptation, Kid's Movies, Comedy, Canada only, Tom Kenny, Stephen Hillenburg, tribute
Valley of the Gods: Lush Film from Polish Director Majewski Earns Amazement, Not Admiration.
Unhinged: Russell Crowe Road-Rage Drama Brings the Horror if Not the Plausibility
Review, PreviewUnhinged, Derrick Borte, Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorious, Road rage, Road Warrior, Gabriel Bateman, thriller, suspense, horror, Carl Ellsworth
Things I Do for Money: Kooky Canuck Family Crime Drama Saved by Blissful Music
Preview, ReviewThings I Do for Money, Warren Sonoda, Gary Nolan, Theodor Aoki, Maximillian Aoki, Colette Zacca, Canadian film, Independent films, Hamilton Ontario, Family drama, crime drama, Cello, Brothers
The Personal History of David Copperfield: Armando Iannucci sets aside savage cynicism, for warm mockery that amounts to homage
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Personal History of David Copperfield, TIFF 2019, Armando Iannucci, Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Dickens, Literary adaptation, Whimsical, Comedy, Dramedy, Rosalind Eleazar, Benedict Wong
Black Water: Abyss Shows That Even Killer Alligators Can Be… Kind of Meh
Review, PreviewBlack Water: Abyss, Andrew Traucki, Killer alligators, Horror movies, Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Australian, Black Water, The Meg
Ash: Middling Fact-Based Drama Set Amid Wildfire Seeks Compassion, Earns Fatigue
