Movies

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.In an interview with Empire magazine, Darren Lynn Bousman – director of Saw II, III, IV and now Spiral – said the newest instalment of the divisive horror series “feels more like Seven,” and acknowledged the way...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s pickI had to check the calendar a few times while watching the new thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead, so convinced was I that it was a late-August movie. You know the type of film by...

On the one hand, it is absolutely the best time to be working in the Canadian film and television industry.Despite pandemic-era restrictions, there are more productions filming right now than at almost any point that insiders can remember. (For instance: there are 50 per cent more film and television shoots...

During the early 1980s, when the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television sought a worthy name to attach to a lifetime achievement award for film or television writing, the name of one person, still living, dominated all others: Margaret Collier.The fiery Ms. Collier long championed writers during her 35-year career...

With about 90 per cent of Canadian movie theatres currently shuttered, there is comfort in knowing that, thanks to streaming and video-on-demand, we can all program our own double (or triple, or quadruple) bills at home. Here are this week’s best new under-the-radar digital releasesOne of the best surprises of...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.On location in Prince Edward County, Ont., for the new film Drifting Snow, Sonja Smits’s writer/director, Ryan Noth, kept telling her, “I want your character to be you. Show me you.” And Smits kept thinking, “Who do you think...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s pickThe majority of Hollywood films are about romantic love, and Nikole Beckwith thinks there should be more films about other kinds of love – platonic love, filial love, even office love. The underlying theme of such...

Last week, Miranda Wayland, head of creative diversity at the BBC, offered some thoughts on the character the charismatic Idris Elba plays in the popular British television series Luther. When the show first came out, she said, “everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there – a really...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s PickIf you had to draw a portrait of grief as landscape, the snow-covered plains and empty tundras of southern Ontario would be hard to match. The contours and spaces of this particular terrain do a remarkable...

After five months of silence, Michelle Latimer is ready to talk.This past December, the Canadian filmmaker became the centre of an explosive debate about identity, representation, diversity and opportunity. On Dec. 17, CBC News published an investigation that scrutinized Ms. Latimer’s Indigenous heritage, focusing on her ties to Kitigan Zibi,...

Parents’ Picks is a new series that will help you wade through the endless options competing for your kids’ screen time. If you have other TV or film suggestions or questions, please send them to [email protected] though my interest in staying up to watch actual award ceremonies such as the...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s PickThree minutes into Wrath of Man, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary Guy Ritchie film. Yes, it’s another tale of bad men doing very bad things to one another. Yes, its dialogue tends to...

As COVID-19 ravages India, images and stories of the devastation unfolding in the country have dominated news headlines around the world.The Globe asked four Indo-Canadian artists to reflect on their relationship to the country, how it inspires their art and what they are hopeful for amid a turbulent time.The daughter...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Fourteen months into our endless cycle of nothingness, and most of us can relate to Sid Straw (Tony Hale), the lead in Canadian director Scott Abramovitch’s feature debut. A gentle man whose dull life is rattled by...

After successfully organizing Vancouver’s Crazy8s Film Festival, a showcase for an intensive eight-day filmmaking event, for 21 years in a row, co-executive directors Erin Mussolum and Paul Armstrong realized that they had three options for 2021.The first was the best-case scenario, where members of the B.C.-based film industry would gather...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s pickAs anyone who has tried to navigate parenting during a pandemic will tell you, any and all rules around screen time have completely slipped away, fallen relics of the “before times”when TV was an occasional treat...

Alright, let’s try this again. Last year at around this time, I previewed the 10 most exciting theatrical releases to watch out for in 2020. Then, well, you know. Of my selections, four titles (Benedetta, After Yang, The Souvenir Part II, Zola) have yet to come out, and another (Promising...

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.Critic’s pickEvery once in a while, along comes a film whose storyline takes place over the course of a single day. They can be dramas (12 Angry Men), comedies (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) or romances (Before Sunrise)....

Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter. Sign up today.What does a Canadian summer movie season look like in 2021, the (second) year of our discontent? For kicks, I went back to look at last year’s season preview, where I cautiously highlighted 25 films that were...

My heart dropped on Tuesday upon hearing the news that the Luminato Festival Toronto was moving its mostly online 2021 edition to October from June – and I’m sorry to say my first reaction was: Why not cancel instead?The decision to push programming that chief executive officer Celia Smith describes...