movies

Q&A: BlackBerry’s Jay Baruchel loves movies, weed and his now-obsolete phone

The Montreal native’s latest film chronicles one of the country’s most epic business success stories. Baruchel’s own life story is the stuff of cinema, too.

Canadian YouTuber Madison Tevlin is starring opposite Woody Harrelson. Here’s how it happened

“She’s a badass chick who puts everybody in their place,” Madison Tevlin says of her breakthrough role in the film ‘Champions’

Simu Liu shares his acting origin story

In this excerpt from his memoir, We Were Dreamers, actor Simu Liu shares how he ditched his gig at Deloitte for a wildly successful acting career.

Framing Agnes. (Courtesy of Fae Pictures/Level Ground)

‘Framing Agnes’ re-enacts the real lives of trans people in the 1950s

The daring film features a cast of trans actors and premieres at this year’s Hot Docs festival

Sarah Polley in her home office in Toronto. (Photograph by Sarah Bodri)

Heather O’Neill on Sarah Polley

Polley became famous when she was 11. Her story’s gone untold–until now.

Ozark (Courtesy Of Netflix © 2021)

Netflix Canada in January 2022: What’s new this month

Here’s Jaime Weinman’s list of the new shows and movies worth checking out on Netflix in Canada

Lynch in his basement Blockbuster Video store in St. John's, Nfld.(Photograph by Alex Stead)

How one Newfoundlander revived Blockbuster in his basement

There’s a house in St. John’s where the video era lives on in all its grainy glory

(Illustration by Dominic Bugatto)

Eight blockbuster movie sequels coming out in 2022

New movies are back, but they’re all old

Red Notice (Frank Masi/Netflix © 2021)

Netflix Canada in November 2021: What’s new this month

Here’s Jaime Weinman’s list of the new shows and movies worth checking out on Netflix in Canada

Fleming in Jamaica in 1964 (Harry Benson/Getty Images)

James Bond’s fantasy-driven history with Jamaica

Bee Quammie: Ian Fleming created Bond in Jamaica, and romanticized the country. Did he ever reckon with its realities?

Lindsay Somers, left, works with actors while Casey Hudecki, second from right, and actor, director and producer Liz Whitmere look on in the background. (Alice Hopton/CBC)

Sex scenes go granular in the age of #MeToo

Intimacy coordinators are helping choreograph intimate scenes on film and TV sets like they’re on-camera fight sequences, ensuring everyone feels safe

Netflix in April: A list of what to watch

Check out Flare’s monthly rundown of all the new shows and movies worth checking out this month, and what to binge before they’re gone