Golden Globes shine on ’The Artist,’ Gosling and Clooney
Why do the Globes treat ’The Descendants’ as a drama and ’My Week with Marilyn’ as a comedy?
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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.
Toronto critics name ’Tree of Life’ Best Picture
TFCA acting awards go to to Michelle Williams, Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain and Christopher Plummer
Avoid ’New Year’s Eve’—it’s no guilty pleasure
Watching this is like going on a bender and mixing too many multi-coloured drinks
The top 11 films of 2011
Brian D. Johnson picks his personal favourites
’The Artist’: the year’s most unlikely crowd-pleaser
This French film that needs no subtitles is the kind of movie Woody Allen would like to have made
’Surviving Progress’—the eco essay as eye candy
A seductive Canadian doc plays like the brainy love child of ’An Inconvenient Truth’ and ’Inside Job’
Clash of the biopic titans
Monroe, Thatcher, Hoover, Freud—Hollywood is turning into the history channel
Taking the joy out of sex in ’Shame’
For all its sexual audacity, ’Shame’ is strangely puritanical — a carnal guilt trip
The many faces of Michael Fassbender
Lover, sex addict, shrink, superhero, spy—a new leading man stars in five movies
An indie gal’s take on Marilyn Monroe
Michelle Williams finds the woman behind the goddess in a movie about acting