When a man is just not up to the job
A spy scripted for Tom Cruise is sex-changed into Angelina Jolie’s latest avatar
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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.
Opening Weekend: Julianne Moore, Annette Bening and Noomi Rapace are the real Predators
Women rule in this week’s new films
A blockbuster with brains
An existential heist movie delivers a megaton blast of originality—and summer thrills
Noomi Rapace, Dragon Girl
"You have to have some kind of responsibility if you put really violent scenes in a movie"
Helen Mirren Goes to the love ranch
Her character has a torrid affair while her real husband makes her ‘very cross’
’Twilight’ eclipsed by the rules of engagement
"The sexual abstinence message is beginning to grate"
Opening Weekend: ’This Movie is Broken,’ ’Knight and Day’
No film has ever captured Toronto’s street-level summer-in-the-city vibe as well as this one
Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of June 21st, 2010)
Losing, and discovering, Tracy Wright
A treasure of Toronto’s film and theatre community dies at 50
Jonah Hill, almost a grown-up
Who knew there was a mature actor behind Judd Apatow’s walking fat joke?