Nearly everything in the lead up to The Sound and the Fury's (★★★) North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival screamed to me to run the other way. Read more
Nearly everything in the lead up to The Sound and the Fury's (★★★) North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival screamed to me to run the other way. Read more
An entertaining update on Madame Bovary, adapted from Posy Simmonds's graphic novel. Read more
Assayas has provided his three actresses with a script that really allows them to showcase their acting chops -- Stewart in particular is a minor revelation. Read more
Blake Rayne says film acting was “always on my bucket list of things” but that without the connections or time to pursue it, he wasn’t sure it would ever happen. The story of how he was cast in the double role of Ryan Wade/Drexel Hemsley is, in a way, as archetypal as the one The Identical tells about his character. Rayne was working at a recording studio in Nashville, when the film’s producers visited. Their film needed someone who could... Read more
Do you believe in karma? Why did Shep Gordon beg John Lennon to have his picture taken with Anne Murray? Who created the celebrity chef? What really happened the night Alice Cooper didn't bite the head off of a chicken? And can *anyone* just drop in at Shep's home in Maui? Ken and Todd discuss Mike Myers's endearing (perhaps too endearing) portrait of the king of all the talent managers. Read more
In a week where the dominant news story has been about leaked nude photos of celebrities, some of them apparently underage, it actually feels a little counter-cultural to watch a show that acknowledges sex has the power to scar us as well as titillate us. Read more
The Toronto International Film Festival starts later this week. Here are five films we're looking forward to reviewing.... Read more
The words "violent" or "gritty" and "prison drama" give me pause when used in the same sentence. Read more
If I could ask one question of series creator and writer Michelle Ashford it would be whether or not Masters of Sex has a specific end in mind. Read more
I wouldn't begrudge anyone who thinks the films Snowpiercer and The Giver have as much in common as an elephant and a plum, but I have been thinking about the two in conjunction recently. Read more