Best movies of 2015Our (lapsed) film critic Brian D. Johnson returns from making his own movie to produce a list of his favourite films of 2015
Why do we love Star Wars? Hollywood’s comforting myths.Whether it’s 1977 or 2015, Star Wars earns its popularity by understanding that audiences love heroes and happy endings
’A Royal Night Out’: An old-fashioned comedy of errorsA madcap adventure about Elizabeth and Margaret sneaking out of Buckingham Palace is a fun throwback to innocent times
The next James Bond may be a character actor in disguiseHe’s beautiful, and a phenomenal actor, but Tom Hardy has insisted on playing roughed-up underdogs—till now.
The (marketing) Force Awakens: Luke ... I am your PopChips™There’s grapes, and then there’s ‘Yoda grapes’ brought to you by Disney. Scott Feschuk on the preposterous branding around Star Wars
Davis Guggenheim: Malala, her father, and a revealing new filmThe director of ’An Inconvenient Truth’ on his latest film, about an ordinary girl who has made extraordinary choices
Why ’Spotlight’ is a revolution in filmFew journalism movies have focused on the Sisyphean tasks that make up investigative reporting. The Oscar-winning ’Spotlight’ showcases it all.
’I rather like the idea of defying death’: Q&A with Christopher PlummerThe legend of stage and screen speaks openly about mortality, his legacy, and why Canadians need ’goosing’
What did Back to the Future get right or wrong? Doesn’t matter.Don’t look ’Back to the Future’ in anger. Focusing on what the movie did and didn’t get wrong about 2015 is a disservice to science-fiction.
Life on Mars, as envisioned by Ridley ScottDisco-fueled and wisecracking, The Martian is a space survivalist epic for our times