Opening Weekend: Man vs. object in ’127 Hours’ and ‘Unstoppable’
Two monster movies in which the monster is a large, heavy object
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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.
Yet another runaway Denzel vehicle
In director Tony Scott’s monster movie, the villain is a shrieking behemoth of a train
’Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ goes Hollywood
Advice for the talented American director seeking to give Stieg Larsson the ‘Chinatown’ treatment
Opening Weekend: Due Date, Megamind, Fair Game
Robert Downey Jr. plays it straight, and gives stoner boy Zach Galifianakis a master class in acting
Brad Pitt as Barney!! Was Richler joshing Jewison?
Mordecai’s son insists his dad was kidding
Opening Weekend: Inside Job, Tamara Drewe, Hornet’s Nest
The most masterful novel in the Stieg Larssen’s Millennium trilogy produces the weakest film
Forget ’Saw 3-D.’ This is authentic horror.
Danny Boyle’s ‘127 Hours’ immerses us in the story of a climber who had to cut off his own arm
Robert LePage in conversation
On tackling the Met, New York’s narcissism—and Hans Christian Andersen’s sex diary
Watching Wall Street squirm
A devastating documentary unravels the causes of the 2008 financial meltdown
Opening Weekend: ’Score’ and ’Carlos’
A choice of icons—the singing, skating pacifist or the bomb-crazy Marxist Marlboro man