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Romantic comedies made him famous, but in the new horror thriller sees Grant settle into a man whose intelligence and charm have curdled into self-loathing for how easy it is to feign it, Hugh Grant is playing to type in Heretic, the new horror thriller written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, arriving Nov. 8. His Mr. Reed – a deceptively [...]

Canvassing For Kamala Harris convinced Johanna Schneller there are more kind, sane people in America than not, Nauseously optimistic. I’ve just spent three weeks volunteering for Kamala Harris in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania – some of the most contested turf in this most contested U.S. presidential [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, born June 18, 1952, may be the most interesting woman in the world. Born in Rome [...]

In Edward Berger’s timely new film, Rossellini is able to say so much in a character who’s mostly silent, Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, born June 18, 1952, may be the most interesting woman in the world. Born in Rome to legends – the actor Ingrid Bergman and the [...]

Director Sean Baker’s latest is an on-the-ground exploration of what economic inequity really feels like, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-mikey-madison-is-a-vip-hustler-for-the-ages-in-sean-bakers-uproarious/ really knows how to scream. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Scream (2022), she does it with her whole body, in a sustained pitch, at ear-splitting [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Mikey Madison really knows how to scream. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Scream (2022), she does it [...]

Participants in the longest-running festival in Canada showing only work by women-identifying writers and/or directors sound off on the impact the festival has had, and why it’s still needed, The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF) celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, the longest-running festival in Canada showing only work by women-identifying writers and/or directors. The festival and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The St. John's International Women's Film Festival (SJIWFF) celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, the longest-running festival in Canada showing only [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Early in rehearsals for the new drama We Live in Time, director John Crowley (Brooklyn) could see that his stars, Florence [...]

The film’s detractors argue that its chopped-up chronology is a cheap trick to cover the thinness of the story – but loving someone means accepting their flaws and emphasizing their strengths, and this film has plenty, We Live in Time Written by Nick Payne Directed by John Crowley Starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh Over the last two decades, filmmakers have ceded serious love stories to [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail We Live in Time CLASSIFICATION: PG ; 104 MINUTES Written by Nick Payne Directed by John Crowley Starring Andrew Garfield and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The outrun is a literal thing, a field left wild on the edge of a farm. In the Orkneys, the wild, [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I've been waiting for the movies to catch up to our current obsession with "improving" our faces through procedures and surgeries. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail About a year ago, Rossif Sutherland was talking to his father, the acclaimed actor Donald Sutherland, about the lead role Rossif [...]

Stan is no stranger to transformation, but his latest role challenges us to confront our identity and whether anyone can actually become a different person, I’ve been waiting for the movies to catch up to our current obsession with “improving” our faces through procedures and surgeries. Facelifts, fillers, Botox, Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs, even [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail A Different Man CLASSIFICATION: 14A; 112 MINUTES Written and directed by Aaron Schimberg Starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson [...]

The senior Sutherland, who died in June, was attached to play a villain in a never-made film version of Murder in a Small Town, About a year ago, Rossif Sutherland was talking to his father, the acclaimed actor Donald Sutherland, about the lead role Rossif had just landed: compassionate sheriff Karl Alberg, in the [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I got a bit choked up talking to Canadian filmmaker Megan Park about the new comic drama she wrote and directed, [...]

The Canadian director credits industry peers, many of them women, with inspiring her to start writing scripts, I got a bit choked up talking to Canadian https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/filmmaking/Megan Park about the new comic drama she wrote and directed, My Old Ass, which opens Sept. 20. (We’ll get to [...]

The gem written and directed by Canadian Megan Park is full of authentic banter while it asks whether you’d want to know your future, My Old Ass Written and directed by Megan Park StarringAubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella and Percy Hynes White Classification14A; 88 minutes Opensin select theatres Sept. 20 Critic’s Pick That final summer [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ, JOHANNA SCHNELLER, KATE TAYLOR, BRAD WHEELER The Globe and Mail's film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year's Toronto [...]

The Globe and Mail’s film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which wraps up this Sunday, The Globe and Mail’s film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year’s https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/tiff-toronto-international-film-festival/, which wraps up this Sunday. Best Accidental Trends Every [...]

Byline: Johanna Schneller; Special to The Globe and Mail There is a lovely, uneasy scene in the new Canadian co-production Bonjour Tristesse, which had its world premiere Thursday at the [...]

Chew-Bose is soft-spoken and thoughtful, but it’s clear that her artistic ambitions are lofty, There is a lovely, uneasy scene in the new Canadian co-production Bonjour Tristesse, which world premieres at the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/tiff-toronto-international-film-festival/ this week: During a drowsy summer holiday in a French Riviera [...]

With 278 titles to choose from, The Globe and Mail’s arts writers have suggestions for some of the most anticipated films this year, The strikes are over, the virtual screenings are behind us and the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/tiff/ is back in full form for its 49th annual edition. But with 278 titles to choose from, [...]

Drawing on ‘90s pop-culture classics like My So-Called Life and Empire Records for inspiration, the show depicts the dwindling days of teenagehood in Winnipeg, Portage Place Mall in downtown Winnipeg was hopping last summer. One series filming there, The Holiday Shift (tagline: “Come one, come mall”), had stuffed the place with Christmas trees and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail It Ends with Us CLASSIFICATION: PG; 130 MINUTES Directed by Justin Baldoni Written by Christy Hall, based on the novel by [...]

Gimmicky? A bit. Cohesive? Not really. Globe staff puzzle over what to make of pandemic novel Fourteen Days, which Margaret Atwood edited with Douglas Preston, What happens when you ask 36 authors to write a novel together? The book, Fourteen Days , a project of the Authors Guild published in February – and edited by [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Consider the squad's uniform. The new Netflix docuseries America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (all episodes now streaming) gives you ample time [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Could anyone clone Orphan Black? Over five seasons, the sci-fi, bio-punk Canadian series starring Tatiana Maslany just kept raising the bar [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Théodore Pellerin, 27, the most exciting Canadian actor to come along in I can't think when, has a peach of a [...]

After navigating a man’s world on Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld and Veep, Louis-Dreyfus comes fully into her own in the new film Tuesday, There’s a Julia Louis-Dreyfus moment in Veep, episode 205, that’s a touchstone for me. Selina Meyer, the Vice-President of the U.S., has just been groped by the husband of the [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I Used to Be Funny CLASSIFICATION: N/A; 10 5 MINUTES Written and directed by Ally Pankiw Starring Rachel Sennott, Dani Kind [...]

Williams will receive the Canadian Screen Awards’ Changemaker Award for her work with Reelworld, a festival and series of professional development initiatives for racially diverse filmmakers, Tonya Williams, the Canadian actor and founder of Reelworld, which she grew from a film festival into a phenomenon, recently unearthed a document from 1987. That’s the year she moved [...]

The overriding mood of the film is joy, however; the subjects grin with impish giddiness, There’s a moment in the documentary The Day Iceland Stood Still that breaks me a little. (It’s screening at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto on Monday and Wednesday.) A [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Tom Ripley is not a psychopath. Not the way Andrew Scott plays him in Ripley, the eight-part Netflix series adapted and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Housekeeping for Beginners Written and directed by Goran Stolevski Starring Anamaria Marinca, Samson Selim and Mia Mustafi CRITIC'S PICK People in [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Problemista CLASSIFICATION: R; 98 MINUTES Written and directed by Julio Torres Starring Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton and RZA Tilda Swinton can't [...]

New film Problemista follows two characters who understand each other’s ‘vibration for desperation’, Tilda Swinton has some thoughts about so-called difficult people – difficult women, in particular. Now 63, she’s played a few. “I’ve lived long enough to know that nobody wants to [...]

The treaties were presented as agreements to share the land peacefully for mutual benefit, but the APTN series explores the circumstances behind the m and the effects on land, resource extraction, food sovereignty and justice, Erin Goodpipe and Saxon de Cocq are friends; they have each other’s backs. That’s important, because they’re exploring some painful injustices in the new ATPN series they co-host, Treaty Road, [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Michaela Watkins delivers best friend energy. Sister energy. Watch her freeze in the 2023 film You Hurt My Feelings - unable [...]

Byline: Johanna Schneller; Special to The Globe and Mail The set is sprawling: terrazzo floors, Deco ironwork, a dozen desks (currently empty, because this scene is just the leads). There's [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail You know that classic actor's arc, painstakingly building from bit parts to bigger roles, withstanding rejection and despair? Yeah, that's not [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Perfect Days CLASSIFICATION: PG; 123 MINUTES CRITIC'S PICK Directed by Wim Wenders Written by Takuma Takasaki and Wim Wenders Starring Koji [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The new Wim Wenders film Perfect Days, the most delicate, transcendent meditation on how to live that you will ever see, [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Whitehorsians (Whitehorsers?) call the northern lights 'Aurora,' as if they're a person. ('Aurora lit up the whole highway last night.') Though [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Contrary to what you've heard, Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees - the 94-minute performance film that's burning up Netflix - [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The OG Mean Girls film - which was written by Tina Fey, shot in Toronto and turns 20 this year - [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER What a lot of unlovely love stories there are among the best films of 2023 - the dark side of love, the missed love, the love that [...]

The writer and director talks about the film starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi, now on Prime Video, Updated: December 28, 2023 What a lot of unlovely love stories there are among the best films of 2023 – the dark side of love, the missed love, the love [...]