Hot Docs 2025: Back With a Vengeance and a Slate of Great Films, Pt. 1
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs 2025, Documentary, Documentaries, Premieres, World Premiere, Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, Always, Casas Muertas, How Deep Is Your Love, The Last Ambassador, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, Mother of Chooks, Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man, Saints and Warriors, Shamed, Circusboy, Paul, Marriage Cops, Climate Therapy
Star Wars: Andor - Season 2: The Canon Continues as the Death Star Looms
ReviewJim SlotekStar Wars TV series, Star Wars: Andor - Season 2, Events leading up to the Death Star, Star Wars: Rogue One., Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgard, Forest Whitaker, Genevieve O’Reilly, Caroline Blakiston, Kyle Soller, Denise Gough
Sinners: A Movie This Good Has To Be a Sin
ReviewJim SlotekHigh-end horror, Sinners, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Black themed movies set in the '30s, Miles Caton, Jayme Lawson, Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, Yao, Jack O'Connell
The Courageous: Parenting, Poverty and a Memorable Mother
ReviewJim SlotekThe Courageous, TIFF 24, Jasmin Gordon, Single mom in jeopardy, Ophelia Kolb, Jasmine Kalisz Saurer, Paul Besnier, French film, Drama, Women's lives
Secret Mall Apartment: If These Walls Could Talk... Oh, Wait. They Do!
The Wedding Banquet: Rom-Com Remake Retains Some Rom, Loses the Com
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekThe Wedding Banquet, Andrew Ahn, James Schamus, Remake, Seattle, Gay Film, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang, Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-Jung, Drama, rom-com
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who... - Never Mind, Iffy Title, Great Movie
Government Cheese: Daniel Oyelowo is a Dad with a Plan in Surreal Period Drama
ReviewJim SlotekGovernment Cheese, Apple TV+, Series, 1960s, Black Americans, Paul Hunter, Aeysha Carr, David Oyelowo, Simone Missick, Bokeem Woodbine, Evan Ellison, Jahi Di'Allo Winston
Skeet: Mean Streets for the Maritimes
ReviewJim SlotekSkeet, National Canadian Film Day, Sean Dalton, Jay Abdo, Jackson Petten, Wendi Smallwood, Kate Corbett, Garth Sexton, Canadian drama, Canadian film, Nik Sexton
One to One: John & Yoko Offers Intimate if Uneven Look at Couple’s 70s New York Years
It Feeds: But It Doesn’t Pander as Chad Archibald’s Indie Horror Finds Its Bite
ReviewJim SlotekIt Feeds, Chad Archibald, Ashley Greene, Ellie O’Brien, Juno Rinaldi, Shayelin Martin, Scott Baker, Shawn Ashmore, Canadian film, Horror, National Canadian Film Day
Coastal: Neil Young's Solo Escape-From-Lockdown Tour Doc is a Revealing Family Affair
ReviewJim SlotekRock tour documentaries, Rock legends venturing out post-pandemic, Neil Young, Coastal, Director Daryl Hannah, Solo acoustic tours, Pump organ, Lionel trains, Life in a tour bus, Jerry Don Borden
Resident Orca: Doc on Whale in Captivity Both a Blow and a Balm to the Soul
Drop: Textbook Texting Thriller Drops Logic for Thrills
Warfare: A Film That Will Shell-Shock its Audience
ReviewJim SlotekRealistic war films, Iraq War, Warfare, Director Alex Garland, Veterans who become filmmakers, Ray Mendoza, Joseph Quinn, Will Poulter, Kit Connor, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
Sacramento: Very Few Sharp Turns on The Way to This Movie’s Destination
By Chris Knight
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Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm's Financier-Turned-Thief is his Post-Mad Men Best
We Were Dangerous: Youth and Hope Triumph in Kiwi Reform School Drama
ReviewJim SlotekWe Were Dangerous, New Zealand, Coming-of-age stories, Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, Maddie Dai, 1950s, Rima Te Wiata, Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall, Women's lives, TIFF Next Wave Selects
Fog of War: Lazy, Hazy WWII Mystery Makes Little Use of John Cusack and Mira Sorvino
The Spoils: Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art Stalled By Greed, Lack Of Will
ReviewJim SlotekThe Spoils, Jamie Kastner, documentary, Canadian, Canadian documentary, Philip Dombowsky, Willi Korte, Clarence Epstein, Nazis, Paintings, Fine Art, Theft
