Your Tomorrow: A Reminder of The Fragility of Forever
By Chris Knight
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The Girl With The Needle: Post-WWI Drama Lays Bare The Precarious Lives of Women
ReviewJim SlotekThe Girl with The Needle, TIFF 24, Magnus von Horn, Line Langebek Knudsen, Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup, Danish, Drama, WWI, Black and white, Women's issues, Women in peril, Women's lives
Y2K: Sorry To Party Poop Like It’s 1999, But Y2K Ain’t Lit
By Chris Knight
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La Cocina: Whirlwind Resto Drama with Exploited Illegals in a Times Square Hell's Kitchen
Drive Back Home: Goin’ Down the Road in Reverse Meets Green Book
ReviewJim SlotekDrive Back Home, Michael Clowater, Alan Cumming, Charlie Creed-Miles, Claire Coulter, Guy Sprung, Canadian director, Canadian, Drama, Comedy, 1970s, Hayden Desser, Themes of homosexuality
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - For Kids, But Take a Break From Adulting and It May Be For You
Original-Cin Q&A: Alan Cumming on the Canuck Trauma-Drama Drive Back Home
By Bonnie Laufer
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Ernest Cole Lost and Found: Remembering a Forgotten Photographer of Apartheid
Beatles '64: A Scorsese-Produced Snapshot of Two Weeks That Shook the Culture
By Karen Gordon
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The Heirloom: When Adopting a Dog Leads to Messes of Many Kinds
ReviewJim SlotekThe Heirloom, Ben Petrie, Grace Glowicki, Cheers, Toronto filmmaker, Toronto story, Canadian film, Drama, Comedy, Films with dogs, Relationship dramas
All The Lost Ones: Yet Another Canadian Post-Apocalyptic Drama? Excellent!
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekAll the Lost Ones, Mackenzie Donaldson, Jasmine Mathews, Vinessa Antoine, Douglas Smith, Canadian, post-apocalypse, Environmental issues, Environmental horror, War, Drama, Sci fi
Nutcrackers: A Surprisingly Conventional Christmas Comedy, Given Who Made It
Maria: Lavish Biopic on Opera Star Boosts Angelina Jolie… ‘La Callas’ Not So Much
ReviewJim SlotekMaria, Biopic, Pablo Larraín, Angelina Jolie, Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Haluk Bilginer, Pierfrancesco Favino, Caspar Phillipson, Mubi, Opera, Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis
Blood in the Snow Film Fest: DIY Dread From Canada's Creepshow Up-and-Comers
Review, PreviewJim SlotekCanadian horror filmmakers, DIY filmmaking, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Kelly Michael Stewart, Larry Kent’s, She Who Must Burn, James Villeneuve, Pins and Needles, Vivieno Caldinelli’s Scared Shitless, Steven Ogg, Isabel Bader Theatre
Wicked: One Brick (and a One Half) Short of a Road, But Still a Road Paved in Gold
ReviewJim SlotekMovies based on Broadway musicals, Movies released in two parts, Wicked: Part One, Gregory Maguire’s novel, Director Jon M. Chu, Elphaba and Glinda, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh
Gladiator II: Exciting, But Rome’s Far from The Truth (Gettit?)
By Chris Knight
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Original-Cin Chat: Doc-Maker Lucy Lawless on CNN War-Zone Warrior Margaret Moth
Original-Cin Q&A: Memoir of a Snail Director Adam Elliot on Garden Gastropods' Appeal
By Bonnie Laufer
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Bad Sisters S2: More Trouble for the Guilty Siblings, and a Blast of Fun from Fiona Shaw
ReviewJim SlotekBad Sisters, Bad Sisters Season 2, Disney+, Sharon Horgan, Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Anne-Marie Duff, Sarah Greene, Eva Birthistle, Eve Hewson, Fiona Shaw, Owen McDonnell, Michael Smiley
Red One: When the Jolly Old Elf has a Private Army and State-of-the-Art Military Tech
