Sarah Polley’s Freudian nightmare
In the psychodrama ’Splice,’ the most awful undercurrents of parenthood come to the fore
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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.
Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of May 31st, 2010)
Five books about the Beautiful Game
The poetry, politics, and pure nerdiness behind the world’s favourite game
Talking about how ‘We never talk’
Raw explorations of love and marriage were strong entries at Cannes
Opening Weekend: ‘Micmacs’ and ‘Sex and the City 2′
With his endless invention, the ’Amélie’ director is like a Gallic Terry Gilliam
Positively gleeful
A new book recalls Canadians’ happy embrace of Prohibition
Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of May 24th, 2010)
$ex and the City 2
These are no longer working women who like to shop. They’re post-feminist Barbies trapped in a Disney World of absurd opulence.
Turning the other cheek in Gaza
When an Israeli rocket killed his children, this Palestinian doctor took a vow: not to hate
A Thai ghost story wins the Palme d’Or
And Javier Bardem has to split Best Actor—but declares his love for Penelope Cruz