Movies
Interview: Heart of a Dragon director Michael French
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 26, 2010 @ 2:09am
If you live in British Columbia or throughout Canada, you may not know the name Michael French, but you should know the name Rick Hansen and his Man in Motion tour, which captured international media attention in the 1980s when the paraplegic athelete wheeled around the world to gain awareness for spinal cord research.
For Vancouverites, the name Jim Byrnes is synonymous with two things: television and music.
It's time to strap in, put on your 3D glasses, and overt your eyes because Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera and the gang are back to turn your stomachs and make you pee your pants laughing.
It's been four years since Jackass 2 and the real question is with a bigger budget does this group of misfits still have what it takes? The answer is yes.
It's a docu–drama about computer programming. It's a morality play, a coming of age story, and a courtroom drama. All of which plays out like a suspenseful psychological thriller.
Is it the best movie of the year? Could be. But it is definitely the most important movie of the year.
Why? Because it is us. It is now.
Looking for an exciting action film, with a bit of comedy thrown in, featuring a bunch of Hollywood vets who are clearly having a blast? Think I'm a couple months behind and talking about The Expendables? Well, you'd be wrong.
Interview: Waiting for 'Superman' director Davis Guggenheim
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 15, 2010 @ 11:02am
Davis Guggenheim didn't start out intending to make documentaries, even though his father Charles had directed many during his career.
With the recent outbreak of vampire movies in the last couple years, it's always nice when a film comes along with an inspiring take on the genre. Let Me In is that film, but, because it's a remake of a Swedish film, it can't take all the credit.
Those with a relative knowledge of Canadian cinema may very well be familiar with Pete and Joey, the two protagonists from Don Shebib's 1970 film Goin' Down the Road, a piece that one could argue was essential marking a move for Canadian films from the proliferation of National Film Board documentaries to fiction features.
TIFF Interviews: Canadian Directors Deborah Chow, Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 26, 2010 @ 7:58pm
During the final days of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I had the opportunity to speak to three Canadian women, all at the festival promoting their feature directorial debuts: Deborah Chow (winner of the Skyy Vodka Award for Best First Feature by a Canadian Director), Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger.
Review: Ladies & Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones (1973)
Posted by: Mike Walkey • September 24, 2010 @ 3:47pm
Like many, I discovered the Rolling Stones as a young adolescent. The energy, the power, the sexual angst. I identified with it all and it shaped the man I am now.
I was 15. But this was not 1964.
It was 1994.
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