Carsten Knox

Zombies. Love ’em or hate ’em, they’re a reality of life. We’re better off making them do what we want. It really is “a better life through containment.” Or, at least, that’s what Fido, Andrew Currie’s new film, suggests for the residents of Willard, USA. You gotta know how to kill ’em, too, in case […]

For about half an hour on Friday, the strike was called off. And then Hollywood put the brakes on. Since the beginning of the year, the Alliance of Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), the national union representing 21,000 Canadian performers, had been on strike in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec. The union called a […]

Mihir Busa, a mechanical engineer originally from Bombay, has had a little trouble adjusting to life in Atlantic Canada. “We all are used to not eating meat,” he says. “Over here it’s hard to find Indian food in the Superstore. There are a few Indian stores, but the prices are…whoof.” He says that for young […]

On January 15 the Golden Globes shone a spotlight on the very-likely contenders for this year’s Academy Awards. But the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the small group of mostly European journalists who vote on the Globes—yes, it’s weird—is a very different organization from the Academy: A collection of actors, producers and other industry grande fromage. […]

Children of Men is a movie about hope. About what might happen if we don’t have any, and what humanity might do to find it again. It posits a world 20 years hence, where women have ceased to reproduce, a place where industry runs free of environmental restraint, where fascist western governments detain foreigners in […]

The Canadian film industry is holding its collective breath this week as representatives of the Canadian actors’ union and movie producers return to the bargaining table for a last shot at creating a new labour agreement and averting an industry-wide strike that could take place at midnight on Monday, January 8. On Wednesday, January 3, […]

The end of the year is all about lists. People love ’em. They can be arbitrary, considered or ridiculous. You turn a list into a popularity contest, and you get awards. People love awards as much as they love lists. I’d like to subvert all that. Or, perhaps I’ll surreptitiously join what I can’t beat. […]

Imagine, if you will, a film crew at Lawrencetown Beach. It’s mid-November and the shooting day starts around 5am. The film is a drama about surfers. Imagine them spending a great deal of time in the water, both the actors and the crew. “We had cameras in splash bags,” says producer Drew Hagen. “We sent […]

A new word will have to be invented for what this is. “Mockumentary” brings to mind This is Spinal Tap and the subsequent comedic work of Christopher Guest. Gabriel Range’s Death of a President in no way resembles those films. If anything, this is hard science fiction, looking into an imagined future to reexamine our […]