The Silent Planet: Canadian Low-Budget Sci-Fi Goes the Distance
By Chris Knight
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This Time Next Year: Routine Rom-Com Prompts New Year’s Auld Lang Anxiety
Daredevil: Born Again - The Devils Finally Get Their Due
ReviewJim SlotekMarvel TV series, Daredevil: Born Again, Charlie Cox, The Kingpin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Classic comic hero/villain dichotomy, Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, Kamar de los Reyes, Jon Bernthal, White Tiger, Punisher
Superboys of Malegaon: A crowdpleaser about DIY cinema, Desi style
ReviewJim SlotekBollywood cinema spoof, Superboys of Malegaon, DIY Indian cinema, Toronto International Film Festival, Viral Deși films, Wedding photographer Nasir Sheikh, Adarsh Gourav, Shashank Arora, Vineet Kumar Singh, Personal and local filmmaking
Last Breath: Deeper Dive into Character Would Have Made Drama Stronger
My Dead Friend Zoe: PTSD Becomes a Literal Near-Death Experience in a Touching Tale
ReviewJim SlotekPTSD stories, Hallucinations of dead friends, My Dead Friend Zoe, Director/writer Kyle Haussman-Stokes, Sonequa Martin-Green, Star Trek: Discovery, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gloria Reuben, U.S. military in Afghanistan
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX – Beginning: Cool Robots, Too Bad About the Story
Grand Theft Hamlet: A Fascinating Mashup of 17th-Century Theatre, 21st-Century Gaming, and Pandemic Lockdown
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekGrand Theft Hamlet, Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, Mark Oosterveen, MUBI, Shakespeare, Video game, Animation, British, Documentary
Parthenope: Naples' Most Beguiling Woman Exists But for Males to Gaze Upon
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekThe male gaze, Italian movies, Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope, Celeste Dalla Porta, Paralyzingly beautiful female characters, Daniele Rienzo, Peppe Lanzetta, Silvio Orlando, John Cheever, Gary Oldman
The Monkey: Sets the Bar as the Horror to Beat in 2025
Eat The Night: Sex, Drugs and a Video Game
ReviewJim SlotekEat The Night, coming of age, French films, Cannes, Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, Lila Gueneau, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Théo Cholbi, Teens, video game movies
The White Lotus, S3: Thailand Hosts Another Addictive Round of Sunlit Seven Deadly Sins
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe White Lotus, Season 3, Writer/director Mike White, Scandal and transgressive behaviour, Thailand, Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Walton Goggins, Christian Friedel, Lurid sunlit mini-series
Captain America: Brave New World - Not Really Brave, Not Really New, But It'll Do
7 Beats Per Minute: Doc About Freediving Champ Plunges Viewers into Deep Thought
Invincible Season 3: As Close to a Meaty, Modern Comic Book Experience As It Gets
ReviewJim SlotekComic books faithfully turned into series, Invincible Season 3, Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series, Super-powered extraterrestrial, Steven Yeun, Teenage superhero, J.K. Simmons, Fred Tatasciore, Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen, Walton Goggins
Atomic Reaction: New Doc Explores Canada’s Role in The Manhattan Project
Heart Eyes: This Rom-Com/Slasher Mash-Up is a Surprise Crowd Pleaser
Bring Them Down: B-a-a-a-d Times in Rural Ireland
ReviewJim SlotekBring Them Down, TIFF 24, Drama, Movies set in Ireland, Christopher Andrews, Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Paul Ready, Nora-Jane Noone, Violent, Family drama
Love Hurts: Hate the Act, Love the Actor
By Chris Knight
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Universal Language: A Farsi-cal What-If Fever Dream of Winnipeg and this Country
ReviewJim SlotekAlternate Canadian reality, Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language, Farsi as an official Canadian language, Canada’s submission for an Oscar, Cinematographer Isabelle Stachtchenko, Films set in Winnipeg, Writers Pirouz Nemati and Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Louis Riel, Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi
