Barney, unbound
Thirteen years, five screenwriters, one hell-bent producer: ‘Barney’s Version’ was worth it
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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.
TIFF 101: way to score with Canuck comedy
Brian D. Johnson assess the Canadian landscape at Toronto’s international festival
‘Fubar II’
Canada’s true gift to world cimena, the hoser farce, is back
Lightbox fantastic: the Toronto film festival’s new home
A blockbuster hybrid of cinemas, galleries and public spaces
Fame as fiction in ‘Teenage Paparazzo’ and ‘The Tillman Story’
Two new docs expose charades of manufactured celebrity
David Cronenberg on Freud, Keira and pressing the flesh
He calls Keira Knightley ’brilliant,’ Robert Downey Jr. ’glib’—and turned down ’The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’
Opening Weekend: ‘The Switch,’ and ‘Lebanon’
Like being stuck on a bad date with Jennifer Aniston, or buried alive in a killing machine
Hugh Hefner’s got a new crusade
A new film highlights the Playboy founder’s other legacy—activism
Call it ’An Inconceivable Truth’
A new doc makes the compelling case that terrorists are actively seeking nuclear weapons