Movies

With her Hot Docs award-winner, Konelīne,’ Vancouver filmmaker Nettie Wild taps her family heritage as a wilderness lover who inherited a mine

Gender-flipping genre films can have huge appeal—if they get past the clichés.

Andy Samberg’s Lonely Island comedy trio explain how their tribute/parody film springs from a bona fide love of pop

From ’Finding Nemo’ to ’Harry Potter’, movies make us want cute animals—even if it’s not so good for the animals themselves

British director Ken Loach and Canadian director Xavier Dolan pick up top prizes at the festival

Three Canadian-directed films premiered at Cannes. Xavier Dolan’s latest was on the festival’s front burner.

Costume movies and auteur directors don’t usually mix, but filmmakers like Whit Stillman are trying their hand at the genre

As women fight for equality on screen, the battle is even tougher for those directing the films—though Maren Ade might just challenge for the Palme D’Or

*Not Donald Sutherland! Longtime Maclean’s film critic Brian D. Johnson on the Cannes Film Festival’s highlights—and opening day’s oddball moments

A Twitter campaign for Frozen asks how long companies like Disney can nod toward social progress while keeping it out of their movies