Film Review: Penélope bares all for Sir Ben in ’Elegy’
Finally back in the saddle after a luxuriously long absence, I’m returning = with a fresh palate. For almost a month, I didn’t set...
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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.
Dirty Dancing in the Laurentians with Almodóvar
After two and a half weeks of being holed up in a cabin on a Laurentian lake, it’s time to break blog silence. It has rained every...
Gone Fishin’
As regular readers of this blog may have noticed, and I believe I know both of you by name, I’ve been absent from the website. I’m...
Oops, did I just say ’comeback’?
Kevin Costner may be on an upswing with ’Swing Vote’
Notes from the Underworld: Reviews of ’Hellboy II: The Golden Army’, ’Journey to the Center of the Earth,’ ’The Wackness’
It’s a weekend of underworld heroes, in all shapes and colours. An infernal brute fights off an underground horde in Hellboy II:...
Film Reviews: ’Wanted’ and ’Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’
Summertime. The living is easy and the popcorn is high. And the time is right for . . . intelligent design? That’s just my lazy...
All that jazz, and a lot more
It seems the secret of a successful jazz festival is booking music that’s not jazz. The organizers of the Montreal Jazz Festival...
Film Reviews: Get Smart, The Love Guru, My Winnipeg
This weekend marks a showdown between two goofy Hollywood comedies about mild-mannered bozos endowed with extravagantly fake...
Film Reviews: ’The Happening,’ ’Young People F------’
Once again, circumstances beyond my control have conspired to keep me from seeing the weekend’s designated blockbuster, The...
Backstage with Leonard Cohen at Hamilton Place
An interview with Leonard Cohen backstage at Hamilton Place