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KATHLEEN EDWARDS had a serious classical musical upbringing, of the sort suitable for the daughter of a senior Canadian diplomat. She played violin from age 5 to 17, studied with [...]

When Vancouver director Guy Bennett wrote a script about a single father and his teenage daughter, he gave it to his own 18-year-old daughter, Sonja, to read. Although Sonja was [...]

Last week, a Canadian movie, Owning Mahowny, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. That same week, an American indie film, Love Liza, also starring [...]

John Cusack never imagined he'd be talking about the humanity of the f'hrer. But in promoting Max -- in which he plays Max Rothman, a fictional Jewish art dealer who [...]

One word best describes actors Ray Liotta (Unlawful Entry, Goodfellas) and Jason Patric (Rush, Your Friends & Neighbors): intense. In the new film Narc, these two stars share the screen, [...]

On the hit WB and CTV show Everwood, Gregory Smith and Emily VanCamp play characters with a complicated relationship. Smith is Ephram Brown, an angry teen whose mom has died [...]

TORONTO SINGER SNOW -- whose real name is Darrin O'Brien -- has been through the highs and lows of the music business. A young thug from Toronto's Allenbury housing projects, [...]

In the new independent film, Personal Velocity, Parker Posey plays Greta, a cookbook editor, married to a nice but boring guy. Racked with ambition, she's ready to move on professionally [...]

CHANTAL KREVIAZUK, What If It All Means Something (Columbia/Sony, Nov. 19) Chantal Kreviazuk oozes vulnerability -- and that's a good thing. Her emotion-filled vocals, along with deft piano playing, led [...]

According to Motown percussionist Jack Ashford, there was no place like Detroit during its heyday. 'You had The Supremes living on one side of town,' he says, 'and The Temptations [...]

'I TELL KIDS Hank Williams was punk rock,' says George Stroumboulopoulos. 'Jesus was punk rock. And all they did was to be rebels. That's why Trudeau was punk rock.' When [...]

EMM GRYNER, Asianblue (Dead Daisy Records/Outside Music, available) Emm Gryner is only 27. Keep that in mind. The Forest, Ont., native moved to Toronto at 20 to pursue a career [...]

Ask Steve Earle if rock 'n' roll will ever have the same political impact it did in the '60s and he gives a definitive answer: 'It's going to happen again [...]

Dr. Robert Buckman is part oncologist, part Monty Pythonesque comedian. While attending Cambridge University in the '60s, Buckman was a member of the school's Footlights comedy group, and was known [...]

Chris Martin, lead singer of the U.K. band Coldplay, wears a big wool sweater and pulls the collar up above his throat, mouth and nose, looking sullen. He comes across [...]

Kelly Turner is sweating and uncomfortable in her tank top and skirt, so she can only imagine how her co-star Elyes Gabel must be feeling wrapped in full-body bandages. The [...]

Heath Ledger is full of nervous energy. His hands are constantly moving -- playing with a lighter, rubbing his newly shorn head. 'I get bored really easily,' he says. Well, [...]

SWOLLEN MEMBERS, Monsters in the Closet (BattleAxe, September 24) As a follow-up to their Juno Award-winning Bad Dreams, Canada's illest hip hop crew have quickly cobbled together a collection of [...]

Not since John and Joan Cusack has a brother and sister acting team been so cool. Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, whose respective films, Secretary and Moonlight Mile are opening this [...]

JUST OFF MULHOLLAND DRIVE, high in the Hollywood Hills, is Runyon Canyon Park, the celebrity dog-walking spot in Los Angeles. One gorgeous day in June, two funny Erics and their [...]

When Toronto author Camilla Gibb was on a book tour in Japan, she was asked: 'How could you, a pretty young woman, talk about such terrible things?' As misguided as [...]

There has already been much written on The Osbournes -- including endless discussions about what it means for TV, for Ozzy Osbourne's career, for heavy metal. And even though the [...]

Montreal singer-songwriter Sam Roberts is the oldest -- and shortest -- of four boys, aged 17 to 27. 'I have this theory that my brothers and I are going to [...]

Jennifer Aniston asks, 'What part of Kanata are you from?' She means Canada, but she's tired. This is the last interview of the day for Mike White, Miguel Arteta and [...]

IT MAY NEVER BE the right time to release The Believer -- a provocative, violent movie about a young Jewish man who is also a Nazi skinhead. Certainly its showing [...]

Ethan Hawke is constantly playing with something -- the snaps on his favourite western shirt, the pen in his pocket, the pendant around his neck, even the water dripping from [...]

WELL, I WASN'T gaga about The Sixth Sense and was totally bored by Unbreakable. My friends who went to film school -- yes, that's contempt in my voice -- said [...]

On her first two CDs, British singer-songwriter Beth Orton found a magical combination by mixing heartbreakingly beautiful acoustic songs with sophisticated electronic beats. The unusual production garnered the Norfolk native [...]

Melissa Auf der Maur wanted to do something special for Canada on its birthday this year, so she brought her little-seen Black Sabbath cover band, Hand of Doom, to an [...]

At last month's L.A. Film Festival, Montrealers Matt Bissonnette and Steven Clark showed their debut film, Looking for Leonard -- which was produced by Molly Parker, who also has a [...]

THE VINES, Highly Evolved (EMI, July 16) The Saviours of Rock 'n' Roll is a title that's changing hands more frequently than WWE wrestling belts these days. The Vines are [...]

Before we go further into this column, a warning: if you consider sex a more horrifying topic than violent death or other man-made disasters, you definitely want to stop right [...]

As the sun sets in the cool Nevada desert, Nelly Furtado is on the lookout for rattlesnakes, cacti and other hazards, but all she finds is some litter resembling a [...]

When a gang of 50 kids, including Spike, Snake, Wheels, Lucy, Caitlin and Joey Jeremiah, threw open the doors to Degrassi Junior High on Jan. 18, 1987, they brought more [...]

Ryan Gosling was promoting The Believer -- in which he plays a young Jewish yeshiva student turned neo-Nazi skinhead -- at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 11. Watching [...]

Mariam Aziz and her colleagues were on a work retreat in rural Ontario when they heard about the bombings. As they watched TV, they were all shocked and saddened. But [...]

What is it about brothers and American film comedy? Male sibs seem to have all the bases covered, from the absurdist irony of the Coens (Fargo) to the gross-out humour [...]

Planet of the Apes is the last hope for the season of summer blockbusters. Pearl Harbor and A.I. didn't cut it artistically, and whether or not Jurassic Park III is [...]

Dumbing down literary fiction is standard operating procedure for commercial filmmakers, as commonplace as firing a writer in mid- project. It's a process captured perfectly in Lost and Delirious, Montreal [...]

The team behind Disney's Pearl Harbor has blockbuster hopes for its Memorial Day weekend release. The studio aims to please both the American and Japanese markets in order to earn [...]

She has been called a miracle baby -- and the description hardly seems an exaggeration. Early on Feb. 24, 13-month-old Erika Nordby awoke, got out of the bed she was [...]

For a while now, networks have been moving away from the traditional movie-of-the-week, those melodramas populated by the likes of Farrah Fawcett and Melissa Gilbert. And while an aberrant few [...]

Flip around the channels late at night and sex is everywhere. Half an hour devoted to the pleasures of the rear end on Discovery's The Sex Files. Sex counsellor Sue [...]

Unbreakable Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Comic books are destroying the youth of America -- or so Unbreakable seems to say. The new movie by M. Night Shyamalan, writer and [...]