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David Cronenberg: Cosmopolis could mark director’s return to insanity
Welcome back, David Cronenberg. We’ve missed you. Yes, we know you’ve been around all these years. You’ve made outstanding (and characteristically disturbing) films such as A Dangerous Method, Eastern...
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Robert Pattinson is trying to figure out his future after his Twilight years
Robert Pattinson won’t come right out and admit it, but he’s looking forward to life after Twilight. He hopes things will be different; not better just different. He’s counting on it after he...
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Review: Cosmopolis
David Cronenberg directs Robert Pattinson in this somewhat minimal adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel that follows a multimillionaire over the course of a single day. At the top of the reel, our hero is...
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Cronenbergs galore at Antiviral party; The family that TIFFs together…
Event: Antiviral post-premiere party, Cube Most A-list guest: David Cronenberg Most D-list guest: Your pick of Rookie Blue players Overheard: “Cronenberg sure loves those coconut chicken crepes.” Best...
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Movie review: Antiviral
It is difficult to talk Brandon Cronenberg’s movie debut, Antiviral, without talking about David Cronenberg. Antiviral is so suffused with the themes and images of Brandon’s father — the seeping bodily...
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Polley, Cronenberg, Mehta make TIFF’s list of Canada’s Top 10 films
TORONTO — David Cronenberg’s cerebral thriller Cosmopolis, Sarah Polley’s deeply personal documentary Stories We Tell and Deepa Mehta’s sweeping adaptation of the Salman Rushdie novel Midnight’s...
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TV Friday: True Blood creator debuts Banshee
Banshee, a new high-octane TV thriller about a just-released prison parolee who adopts the identity of a town sheriff in Amish country, is wildly inventive at times. That much is evident in Friday’s...
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Laurence Anyways and Rebelle lead film nominees for Canadian Screen Awards
The child soldier drama Rebelle leads the film nominations at the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards. Kim Nguyen’s harrowing feature, also known as War Witch, dominates the prizes with 12 nominations —...
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Canuck filmmakers back application for Starlight: The Canadian Movie Channel
A group of Canadian filmmakers led by producer Robert Lantos is trying to launch an all-Canadian movie channel. Denys Arcand, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Paul Gross, Guy Maddin, Deepa Mehta and...
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New on DVD: Midnight’s Children, Hyde Park on Hudson and more
Midnight’s Children: 3.5 stars out of 5 — Deepa Mehta takes on the vast contours of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel about the birth of an independent India, and one boy who can conjure the...
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Civil liberties association honours Andrew Coyne
Postmedia News political columnist Andrew Coyne will be honoured by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for the role his work has played in promoting and strengthening democracy. Coyne is among 19...
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David Cronenberg says TIFF exhibit is a work of art
When it came to his own body of work, David Cronenberg assumed he’d be ambivalent. “I didn’t really expect to have an emotional connection to my own stuff,” the Canadian director behind such iconic...
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TV Sunday: Martin Short hosts Canadian Screen Awards (with video)
Wry, droll, self-deprecating — and age appropriate — Martin Short is a welcome presence in any home and an ideal host for the newly revived Canadian Screen Awards. That crack about being “age...
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Screen Awards “the Olympics of Canadian entertainment” (with video)
Martin Short will be there. So will Viggo Mortensen, Jessica Paré (Mad Men) and Jay Baruchel (How To Train Your Dragon). You’ll see Jason Priestley and Dave Foley and Liane Balaban. David Cronenberg...
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The ghost in the machine gets a close-up (with video)
Humans have a long and well-storied desire to animate the inanimate. Jewish rabbis made monsters from dirt to protect themselves from pogroms. Mary Shelley’s Viktor Frankenstein made dead tissue come...
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Kudos for David Cronenberg at Cannes Film Festival
Chris Knight So far this year, most of the offerings at the Cannes Film Festival have been family affairs. That’s especially true of David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, which received an enthusiastic...
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Cannes: Three new works join Palme d’or competition (with video)
Chris Knight The most important letters at the Cannes Film Festival this year are the first three; Can, as in Canada. For the first time in the festival’s 67-year history there are three Canadian films...
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Mixed reactions typical of Cannes Film Festival
Chris Knight Jeers, cheers and tears have marked the opening days of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 14 to 24 in the French seaside town. And for filmmakers who suffer the jeers, the only...
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Cannes: Egoyan, Cronenberg and Dolan compete (with video)
Chris Knight Canada will have an unprecedented three films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this May. David Cronenberg, Xavier Dolan and Atom Egoyan will all have their latest works screened...
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A post-hockey CBC schedule that actually might work (with video)
It’s one thing to talk about what CBC-TV could and should be doing, and quite another to show how. Here, then, is just one example of what a post-hockey CBC primetime landscape might look like. Prime...
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