Four funerals and a ’Five-Year Engagement’
Romantic comedy’s new Tom Hanks
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Brian D. Johnson
Brian D. Johnson writes about film and the arts for Maclean’s. He’s also a filmmaker, and director of the annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Gala.
What’s hot at Hot Docs
Top picks from North America’s largest documentary festival
Michelle Yeoh’s secret mission to play Aung San Suu Kyi
Filming in secrecy in Bangkok included hundreds of Burmese refugees in crowd scenes—and no one even posted a photo
REVIEW: True North: A Life in the Music Business
Book by Bernie Finkelstein
Lightfoot at 73: his motto is ’don’t stop now’
Canada’s legendary bard swears he’s given up on songwriting. But performing? Never.
Vanishing acts: Hudson Bay and Tom Thomson
Crimes of nature ’People of a Feather’ and ’West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson’
REVIEW: Apocalypse on the set: Nine disastrous film productions
Book by Ben Taylor
What makes Nicholas Sparks fly
The king of hardcover, and Hollywood, romance reveals the secret to his massive box-office success
From the madhouse to the art house
Jumpin’ genres: ’The Three Stooges,’ ’Cabin in the Woods,’ ’The Hunter,’ Deep Blue Sea,’ ’Keyhole’, ’Hard Core Logo 2’
School daze: American Reunion, The Moth Diaries, Bully
In the Judd Apatow age, Reunion’s nostalgia orgy is quaintly sexist, and as wholesome as . . . apple pie