Movies

Bottoms director Emma Seligman went from babysitter to cult filmmaker in three years

“There’s so much beauty and wonder to making and watching a dumb movie or a dumb show”

BlackBerry director Matt Johnson on creating the buzziest new film in Canadian cinema

To tell the story of a fallen tech giant, he channelled his inner Dolly Parton

Q&A: BlackBerry’s Jay Baruchel loves movies, weed and his now-obsolete phone

The Montreal native’s latest film chronicles one of the country’s most epic business success stories. Baruchel’s own life story is the stuff of cinema, too.

Canadian YouTuber Madison Tevlin is starring opposite Woody Harrelson. Here’s how it happened

“She’s a badass chick who puts everybody in their place,” Madison Tevlin says of her breakthrough role in the film ‘Champions’

Framing Agnes. (Courtesy of Fae Pictures/Level Ground)

‘Framing Agnes’ re-enacts the real lives of trans people in the 1950s

The daring film features a cast of trans actors and premieres at this year’s Hot Docs festival

Sarah Polley in her home office in Toronto. (Photograph by Sarah Bodri)

Heather O’Neill on Sarah Polley

Polley became famous when she was 11. Her story’s gone untold–until now.

Shi outside the Pixar animation studio in Emeryville, Calif. (Photograph by Jessica Chou)

With ‘Turning Red,’ Domee Shi wants to tell the story of your childhood

The Canadian director won an Oscar for her touching Pixar short. Now, in her debut feature, she plumbs her childhood to make a movie for everyone.

First page of a 961 letter from Luther Perkins to Margie Perkins Beaver. (Courtesy of Margie Perkins Beaver)

This letter tells the story of Johnny Cash’s pivotal 1961 trip to Newfoundland

Luther Perkins, Cash’s lead guitarist at the time, wrote the letter to his wife

Ozark (Courtesy Of Netflix © 2021)

Netflix Canada in January 2022: What’s new this month

Here’s Jaime Weinman’s list of the new shows and movies worth checking out on Netflix in Canada

Lynch in his basement Blockbuster Video store in St. John's, Nfld.(Photograph by Alex Stead)

How one Newfoundlander revived Blockbuster in his basement

There’s a house in St. John’s where the video era lives on in all its grainy glory

(Illustration by Dominic Bugatto)

Eight blockbuster movie sequels coming out in 2022

New movies are back, but they’re all old

Don't Look Up (Niko Tavernise/Netflix © 2021)

Netflix Canada in December 2021: What’s new this month

Here’s Jaime Weinman’s list of the new shows and movies worth checking out on Netflix in Canada

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