Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Review!
By Chris Knight
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"Wuthering Heights:" A Beautiful Brontë Adaptation, Stripped of Character Depth
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekEmily Brontë, Modern Bronte's adaptations, “Wuthering Heights”, Writer/director Emerald Fennell, Margot Robbie, Hong Chau, Jacob Elordi, Charlotte Mellington, Martin Clunes, Shazad Latif
Montreal, My Beautiful: Joan Chen Luminous (As Usual) Is a Hit in Quebecois Film
ReviewJim SlotekMontreal, My Beautiful, Xiaodan He, Joan Chen, Charlotte Aubin, John Xu, Pei Yao Xu, Canadian, Drama, Hong Kong, Chinese, Immigrant stories
Cold Storage: Fungus-Among-Us Starts Strong in Overstretched Disease Horror
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: Groundhog Day Meets The Terminator by Way of The Dirty Dozen
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekGood Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Gore Verbinski, Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lu Richardson, Sci-fi, Comedy, Futuristic, Black comedy, Apocalyptic themes
Forlorn at Finch, Middle-Aged at Midland: Hong Kong Immigrants Struggle to Get By
ReviewJim SlotekFinch & Midland, Canadian drama, Hong Kong, Scarborough, Timothy Yeung, Anthony Wong, Patrick Tam, Nina Paw, Harriet Yeung, Theresa Lee, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Jaden Kwan, Immigrant experience, Chinese
Pillion: Aloof Alexander Skarsgärd Meets Puppy-Eyed Harry Melling in Offbeat Dom-Com
ReviewJim SlotekPillion, Harry Lighton, Adaptation, LGBTQ+, Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgärd, Lesley Sharp, Douglas Hodge, Queer, Gay culture, Drama, British
Original-Cin Q&A: Joan Chen on Learning French (and Freedom) in Montreal, My Beautiful
By Bonnie Laufer
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Soul’s Road: Canadian Country Star Dallas Smith as a Hometown Hero Seeking Redemption
ReviewJim SlotekSoul’s Road, Drama, Redemption, Canadian film, Joel Stewart, Dallas Smith, Camille Stopps, Allan Hawco, Celeste Desjardins, Geena Meszaros, Josh Collins, Charlie Gillespie
Scarlet: To See or Not to See an Animated Japanese Hamlet - That is the Question
By Chris Knight
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Whistle: Death Comes Early to Those Who Blow
Sway: A Contemporary Noir That Wields Words Like Weapons
The Moment: A Chipper Filmic Advert for Charli XCX
ReviewJim SlotekThe Moment, Mockumentary, Music mockumentary, Aidan Zamiri, Charli XCX, Rosanna Arquette, Alexander Skarsgård, Kylie Jenner, Jamie Demetriou, Kate Berlant, Hailey Benton Gates, Rachel Sennott, Dramedy
Original-Cin Q&A: Dracula's Christoph Waltz Dislikes Stoker's Novel, But Loves Besson's Vision
By Bonnie Laufer
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Dracula: Luc Besson Gives us a Deeper, Tragic Vamp in Need of Redemption
All That’s Left of You: A Palestinian Epic on The Roots of Rage and Obligation of Compassion
ReviewJim SlotekAll That’s Left of You, Palestinian filmmaker, Palestinian occupation, Israel, Cherien Dabis, Saleh Bakri, Adam Bakri, Maria Zreik, Mohammad Bakri, Muhammad Abed Elrahman
Back to the Past: Hong Kong Time-Traveling Sci-Fi is an Epic Reboot of a 2001 TV Hit
ReviewJim SlotekReboots of long-ago TV hits, Hong Kong movies, Chinese time-traveling sci-fi, Back to the Past, A Step into the Past, Louis Koo, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, Raymond Lam, Michael Miu, Directors Yuen Fai Ng and Jack Lai
The Testament of Ann Lee: A Visionary Religious Musical, For Better and Worse
ReviewJim SlotekThe Testament of Ann Lee, TIFF '25, Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet, Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Beard, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Period piece, Musical, Drama
Shelter: Jason Statham Plays an Avuncular Assassin, Because of Course He Does
By Chris Knight
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Send Help: Sam Raimi Doesn’t Hate Romance, He Just Knows Where It Hurts
ReviewJim SlotekSam Raimi, Dark comedy, Romantic comedies that aren't, Send Help, Movies about being marooned, Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Dennis Haysbert, Xavier Samuel, Chris Pang, Edyll Ismail
