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
Mayworks Festival: Someone’s Still Doing the Dirty Work
PreviewJim SlotekMayworks, Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, Richelieu, Pier-Phillipe Chevigny, Marc-André Grondin, Ariane Castellanos, Marwan Barghouthi, Sophia Scott, Georgia Scott, Tomorrow’s Freedom
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
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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
Hot Docs Interview: The Day Iceland Stood Still's Producer and Director on a Game-Changing Women's Strike
Hot Docs Interview: Top Toronto Chef Revisits His Indian Street Kid Past in Born Hungry
InterviewJim SlotekAdopted Indian street kids, Hot Docs 24, Sash Simpson, Born Hungry, Upscale Toronto restaurants, Barry Avrich, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Foster parents, Sandra and Lloyd Simpson, North 44’s Mark McEwan, Lion, Shipra Khanna
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
Original-Cin Q&A: Humane Director Caitlin on Not Being Just Another Cronenberg
By Karen Gordon
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InterviewJim SlotekCaitlin Cronenberg, Humane, Ecological disaster, Deadly dysfunctional family, Writer Michael Sparaga, Peter Gallagher, Uni Park, Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Cronenberg clan horror tradition
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
Hot Docs Made In Spain Program: Powerful, Topical Films from a Vibrant Nation
PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs '24, Docuementary, Festival, documentaries, The Click Trap, Made in Spain, Wild Gleaming Space, Flying Hands, My Sextortion Diary, Eyes of the Soul-Cristian García Rodero, Salt Covers All, Aitana, Back to Riaño, Aqueronte, Spanish language
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
Hot Docs ’24: What to See at the Planet’s Biggest Documentary Film Festival, Pt. 2
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PreviewJim SlotekDocumentaries, Film Festival, An Unfinished Journey, Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, Born Hungry, Curl Power, Death of a Saint, Fragments of a Life Loved, Nice Ladies, Okurimono, Power, So This Is Christmas, Streets Loud with Echoes, The Conquest of Space, The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine, Stories We Tell, Red Fever, Chasing Time, A, American Cats, Family Tree, Helen and the Bear
Hot Docs ’24: What to See at the Planet’s Biggest Documentary Film Festival, Pt. 1
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PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 24, Docuementary, film festival, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity, Big Moves, Black Box Diaries, Daughter of Genghis, Grand Theft Hamlet, Lost in the Shuffle, Marching In the Dark, Me, Michael and I, Never Look Away, XIXI, Uncle Bardo, The Here Now Project, My Sextortion Diary, Ari's Theme
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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