Doctor Who: Rebooted Time-Travel Series Gets Fresh, Fun Update
By Chris Knight
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Evil Does Not Exist: A Potent Japanese Eco-Fable from the Director of Drive My Car
ReviewJim SlotekEvil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Hitoshi Omika, Ryô Nishikawa, Ryûji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani, TIFF 2023, Japanese films, Environmental messages, Environmental issues, Drama
We Grown Now: A Powerful Evocation of Childhood… and Recent History
ReviewJim SlotekWe Grown Now, Minhal Baig, Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jurnee Smollett, TIFF 2023, Black lived experience, Drama, American
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Still Monkeying Around En Route to Planetary Apehood
ReviewJim SlotekKingdom of the Planet of the Apes, La Planète des singes by Pierre Boule, Owen Teague, Motion capture performance, Director Wes Ball, Kevin Durand, Apes with human technology, William H. Macy, Peter Macon, Freya Allan
The Coffee Table: Most Terrifying Film This Year. Just Imagine If it Had a Villain…
Star Wars: Tales of the Empire - The Sith Have Stories Too (And May the Fourth Be With You)
The Fall Guy: Hilarious and Thrilling Double-Genre Spoof - Just Add Popcorn
Jeanne du Barry: Meh Period Piece Finds French-Speaking Johnny Depp Amid Much Finery
ReviewJim SlotekPeriod piece films, French films, Cannes, Jeanne du Barry, Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Melvil Poupaud, Benjamin Lavernhe, Royalty, Stories about kings, Costume drama
Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story Paints the Superstar with an Earthbound Face
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDocumentary, Music documentary, Thank you, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, Gotham Chopra, Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Tico Torres, Richie Sambora, Alec John Such, Disney+, Streaming
Challengers: All’s Fair In 15-Love and War
By Chris Knight
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Boy Kills World: A Fun and Twisted Coming-of-Rage Story
ReviewJim SlotekBoy Kills World, TIFF '23, Moritz Mohr, Bill Skarsgård, Famke Janssen, Nicolas Crovetti, Cameron Crovetti, Quinn Copeland, Yayan Ruhian, sci-fi, Dystopian stories
Occupied City: Steve McQueen’s Original Take of Amsterdam Under the Nazis
I Don’t Know Who You Are: An Anxious, Empathetic Medical Odyssey
ReviewJim SlotekSexual assault aftermath, I Don’t Know Who You Are, Writer/filmmaker M.H.Murray, The Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica, Movies set in Toronto, Mark Clennon, Nat Patricia Manuel, Unreliable friends, Cinematographer Dmitry Lopatin
Dead Boy Detectives: Spinoff (sort of) of Gaiman's Sandman Intros a New Supernatural Scooby Gang
ReviewJim SlotekNeil Gaiman, Comics turned into TV series, Dead Boy Detectives, DC Comics of Magic, The Sandman universe, Kirby Jean Baptiste, Teen ghost detectives, George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, Netflix
The Inventor: Stephen Fry Voices da Vinci in a Kid-Film About the Power of Questions
ReviewJim SlotekChildren's films about historical figures, Leonardo da Vinci, The Inventor, Stephen Fry, Cardinal De Medici, Pope Leo X, Matt Berry, Writer/co-director Jim Capobianco, Ratatouille, Rankin/Bass Christmas specials
Wings Over Water: Gorgeous Nature Doc is Perfect Family Fare for Earth Day
Sasquatch Sunset: Absurdist, Sad, Gross - That's the Way They Became the Bigfoot Bunch
By Karen Gordon
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Abigail: Dracula’s Daughter Makeover is Bloody Good Fun
ReviewJim SlotekChild vampire movies, Abigail, Universal Classic Monsters, Dracula's Daughter remake, Alisha Weir, Radio Silence horror collective, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Melissa Barrera, Kathryn Newton, Dan Stevens, Kevin Durand
Irena’s Vow: A Glimpse of Heroic Holocaust History Even as History Repeats Itself
ReviewJim SlotekIrena’s Vow, TIFF 23, WWII, Nazis, Nazi era Poland, Louise Archambault, Dan Gordon, Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Maciej Nawrocki
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World: Seriously Funny, Timely Romanian Journey into Night
ReviewJim SlotekRomanian films, Do No Expect Too Much From the End of the World, Radu Jude, Social comedy and comment, Uber driver, Movies interacting with other movies, Black and white filming, Ilinca Manolache, Uwe Boll, 1981 film Angela Moves On, Lucian Bratu, Nina Hoss, Films about exploitative film production
