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Dumb Money: When the Little Guys Beat Wall Street for a Hot Minute

Dumb Money: When the Little Guys Beat Wall Street for a Hot Minute

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 18, 2023Dumb Money, GameStop "short squeeze", Movies based on real life stock scandal, Toronto International Film Festival, Paul Dano, America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman, Craig GillespieComment

TIFF 2023: Our Thrills, Yawns, and Suggestions for a Better Future Festival

TIFF 2023: Our Thrills, Yawns, and Suggestions for a Better Future Festival

By Original-Cin Staff

TIFF '23: What To See at This Year's Fest, Sept. 17

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 17, 2023Riddle of Fire, Midnight Madness, TIFF 23, His Three Daughters, Special Presentations, The Delinquents, Centrepiece, A Normal Family, Gala PresentationsComment

Stallone on CGI and his Marvel Experience: 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing'

Stallone on CGI and his Marvel Experience: 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing'

By Jim Slotek

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 16, 2023Sylvester Stallone, Action films with real stunts, Sly, The Expend4bles, The Expendables, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jason Statham, Rocky, Rambo, Ted Kotcheff, TIFF In Conversation With...Comment

TIFF '23: What To See at This Year's Fest, Sept. 16

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 15

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 15, 2023Sleep, Midnight Madness, TIFF 23, Fingernails, Special Presentations, The Burial, The Nature of Love, Centrepiece Comment

The Retirement Plan: Big Dumb Escapist Fun with Nic Cage, Comedy and Bloodshed

The Retirement Plan: Big Dumb Escapist Fun with Nic Cage, Comedy and Bloodshed

By Liz Braun

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 14, 2023Nicolas Cage, Violent and comedic B movies, The Retirement Plan, Ron Perlman, Jackie Earle Haley, Canadian writer-director Tim Brown, Ashley Greene, Thalia CampbellComment

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 14

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 14, 2023Mademoiselle Kenopsia, Wavelengths, La Chimera, Special Presentations, All The Light We Cannot See, Primetime, TIFF 23, Finestkind, Gala Presentations, American Fiction, Special Presentation, RU, When Evil Lurks, Midnight Madness, Memory, DaddioComment

El Conde: In Pablo Larrain’s Vampiric Gallows Satire, the Late Dictator Pinochet Literally Sucks

El Conde: In Pablo Larrain’s Vampiric Gallows Satire, the Late Dictator Pinochet Literally Sucks

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 13, 2023Vampire premises in history, El Conde, Augusto Pinochet, Pablo Larraín, Jaime Vadell, Edward Lachman, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula LuchsingerComment

Golden Delicious: A Generous, But Pat Asian-Canadian Coming-Out Drama

Golden Delicious: A Generous, But Pat Asian-Canadian Coming-Out Drama

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 13, 2023Asian-Canadian coming of age movies, Teen coming-out movies, Golden Delicious, Cardi Wong, Parmiss Sehat, Ryan Mah, Jason Karman, Gorrman Lee, Chris CarsonComment

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 13

By Original-Cin Staff

A Haunting in Venice: Branagh's latest Christie Fix is a Fusty and Familiar Sleuth-Fest

A Haunting in Venice: Branagh's latest Christie Fix is a Fusty and Familiar Sleuth-Fest

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 12, 2023Kenneth Branagh, Agatha Christie adaptations, A Haunting in Venice, Hercule Poirot, Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie DornanComment

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 12

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 11, 2023Tautuktavuk (What We See), Shame on Dry Land, We Grown Now, Yellow Bus, Fitting In, Centrepiece, Platform, Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Evil Does Not Exist, Walls, TIFF Docs, Sorry/Not Sorry, The Holdovers, Special PresentationsComment

TIFF Interview: Directors Spotlight Inuit Trauma & Healing in Tautuktavuk (What We See)

InterviewJim SlotekSeptember 11, 2023Zacharias Kunuk, The Fast Runner, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Carol Kunnuk, TIFF 23, Tautuktavuk (What We See), IsumaComment

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 11

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 11, 2023After the Fire, Discovery, Backspot, Monster, Special Presentations, TIFF 23, Concrete Utopia, Gala Presentations, The Zone of Interest, Knox Goes AwayComment

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 10

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 10, 2023Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make Believe, TIFF Docs, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Centrepiece, Chuck Chuck Baby, Dumb Money, Gala Presentations, The Boy and the Heron, The Dead Don't Hurt, Stamped From the BeginningComment

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 9

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 9, 2023Lost Ladies, Seagrass, Toll, Centrepiece, TIFF 23, Discovery, Days of Happiness, AchillesComment

TIFF ’23: What To See at This Year’s Fest, Sept. 8 (Plus, a Day in the Life of a Hack)

By Original-Cin Staff

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 8, 2023Anatomy of a Fall, Bloom, Perfect Days, Short Cuts, Centrepiece, Special Presentations, TIFF 23, The Boy and the Heron, Fallen Leaves, Walls, Green Border, A Haunting in Venice, Flora & Son, The Zone of InterestComment

Why Quieter Red Carpets Are Important at this Year's TIFF

By Karen Gordon

ViewsJim SlotekSeptember 6, 2023TIFF 23, Editorial, Strike, SAG-AFTRA, Writers Guild of America, HollywoodComment

A TIFF Life: Chris Knight Looks Back on 27 Years of Dark Rooms and Filmic Revelations

A TIFF Life: Chris Knight Looks Back on 27 Years of Dark Rooms and Filmic Revelations

By Chris Knight

ViewsJim SlotekSeptember 6, 2023Toronto International Film Festival memories, Steven Soderbergh, Nanni Moretti, History Is Made at Night, No Country For Old Men, Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, Reg Harkema’s A Girl Is a Girl Comments