Inside Out Film Fest: A Filmic History of Funding Gay Toronto, and Other Highlights
ReviewJim SlotekInside Out Film Festival, LGBTQ+, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, I Used to Be Funny, Runs In the Family, Commitment To Life, Norwegian Dream, 20, 000 Species of Bees, A Queer’s Guide to Spiritual Living, Leilani’s Fortune, Before I Change My Mind
Mission Kandahar: Progressive Script Can’t Disguise Its Hell-Is-Other Countries Premise
You Hurt My Feelings: A Very New York Style Slice of Life and Comedic Angst
By Karen Gordon
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It Ain’t Over: Yogi Berra, The Underestimated All-Star
FUBAR: Arnold’s Back in Action… and We Missed Him!
ReviewJim SlotekFUBAR, Nick Santora, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Monica Barbaro, Fortune Feimster, Travis Van Winkle, Fabiana Udenio, Milan Carter, Gabriel Luna, Jay Baruchel, Scott Thompson, Netflix, Filmed in Canada, Toronto
L’immensità: Penélope Cruz Anchors Italian Family Drama with a Twist
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekL’Immensitá, Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Manieri, Vittorio Moroni, Penelope Cruz, Luana Guiliani, Vincenzo Amaro, Italian, coming of age, Family drama
What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Yeah, It’s a Formulaic Rom Com. Got a Problem with That?
By Karen Gordon
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The Starling Girl: Strong Performances Elevate Familiar Coming-of Age Drama
Insanity: Doc about Mental Illness Chronicles a Stark Societal Fail
Retrograde: Young Woman Challenges Traffic Ticket and Her World Collapses in This Wry Comedy
Fast X: Latest Chapter in Relentless Racing Franchise Sputters and Stalls
ReviewJim SlotekFast X, Franchise, Fast & Furious franchise, Louis Leterrier, Vin Diesel, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, John Cena, Leo Abelo Perry, Jason Momoa, Charlie Theron, Michelle Rodriguez, Helen Mirren, Car racing
The Eight Mountains: Brotherly Love at High Altitude, Presented as Intimate Epic
ReviewJim SlotekMovies about male friendships, The Eight Mountains, Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden, Elena Lietti, Alessandro Borghi, Elisabetta Mazzullo, Living a life of travel or the sanctity of home
Master Gardener: Paul Schrader's Race Drama-Slash-Love Story Fails to Blossom
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie - An Unflinching Close-Up of An '80s Whirlwind, Then and Now
Crater: Kinda like Stand by Me but Nicer… and Set in Space
ReviewJim SlotekCrater, Disney+, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, John Griffin, Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Billy Barratt, Orson Hong, Thomas Boyce, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, McKenna Grace
BlackBerry: Canada's We-Invented-the-Smartphone Tale Has Corporate America Flavour
By Chris Knight
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Book Club: The Next Chapter - Over-70 Sexcapades and an Awful Lot of Prosecco
ReviewJim SlotekComedies starring older actresses, 80 For Brady, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Don Johnson, Romantic comedies set in Italy, Giancarlo Giannini, Bill Holderman
The Muppets Mayhem: This Time, It's All About the Music, Man!
Carmen: Dance, Spectacle and a Thin Thread of a Plot
Original-Cin Q&A: Star Rebecca Ferguson Talks Up Apple TV+'s New Dystopian Series Silo
By Bonnie Laufer
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ReviewJim SlotekPost-apocalyptic thrillers, Silo, Hugh Howey, Graham Yost, Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Rashida Jones, Tim Robbins, Mysterious subterranean environment, Apple TV+’
