Arts & Culture

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The formidable, in size and in talent, cast of For Your Consideration is stretched 10 people wide across a Toronto hotel room. It is headed, as it should be, by Christopher Guest and his co-conspirator/writer Eugene Levy, followed by Catherine O’Hara, Simpsons regular Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Coolidge (AKA Stifler’s […]

The platoon of photographers is larger than usual. Dustin Hoffman interrupts the conversation with a question he already knows the answer to. “Has anybody with a camera seen the movie?” he asks as digital shutters fire endlessly at him, but mostly at his co-star Will Ferrell, sitting a few chairs down. “Getting to do something […]

While I was speaking with a high school class recently, one student observed that children’s films have become void of thematic depth. The value of friends and family remains the standard lesson, but these Daddy Day Care days mainly deliver brightly coloured distractions meant to relieve two hours of parental duty. Within the first minute […]

“They got in my head that I said ‘15 little words’: Just so you know, we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas,” says Natalie Maines. “So when I watched the movie I saw that actually what I say is something like, ‘Just so you know, we’re on a good side […]

Exactly how you sell a vague and open-ended film like A Year in the Death of Jack Richards is a question on the mind of filmmaker Benjamin Paquette. How do you get moviegoers to connect with, let alone see in the first place, a film that gives its clues away in fleeting visual flashes and […]