An Oscar coronation for ’The King’s Speech’
Franco flops, while Hathaway puts a happy face on a train wreck at the ’young, hip,’ atrophied Oscars
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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.
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Hanging out in Hollywood with Denis Villeneuve, whose ’Incendies’ is up for best foreign-language film
Martyr video bloopers and other jihad hijinks
A farce about inept Islamic terrorists comes as a shock but is wickedly entertaining
Cronenberg casts ’Twilight’ hearthrob as Wall Street vampire
Paul Giamatti and Juliette Binoche will co-star with Robert Pattinson in a film based on Don Delillo’s ’Cosmopolis’
Revolution. There’s an app for that.
A documentary on the Iranian uprising mixes cellphone video with animated blogs
Opening Weekend: Bardem, Bieber, Sandler and Channing
Adam Sandler should play villains in Bond movies; in a duet with Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus looks like a jaded hooker
Why Harvey Weinstein wants to cut ’The King’s Speech’
Sanitizing the Oscar front-runner is just the movie mogul’s latest outrage
Opening Weekend: ’Sanctum’ and ’Oliver Sherman’
Trapped underground, and underwater, with bad dialogue
Opening Weekend: are ’Casino Jack’ and ’The Rite’ both true stories??
Anthony Hopkins and Kevin Spacey stretch our sympathy for the Devil
That Oscar nod for ’Barney’s Version’ was no accident
Robert Lantos says Adrien Morot’s Makeup nomination was "fought for" in months of L.A. lobbying