Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Memoirs of a Geisha — CDN $6,137,924 — N.AM $46,504,000 — 13.2%Munich — CDN $3,706,358 — N.AM $32,901,000 — 11.3%Brokeback Mountain — CDN $3,186,626 — N.AM $30,825,000 — 10.3%Fun with Dick and Jane — CDN $9,144,445 — N.AM $92,601,000 — 9.9%King Kong — CDN $19,828,932 — N.AM $202,965,000 — 9.8%Tristan... Read more

I recently finished watching Disney Rarities, a two-disc set of cartoons produced between the 1920s and the early 1960s. Being a bit of a Bible-movie geek as well as an animation buff, I have to say I really liked Noah’s Ark (1959), which displays a biblical literacy reminiscent of Disney’s earlier Father Noah’s Ark (1933), and makes wonderfully creative stop-motion use of thimbles, corks, pipe cleaners, paper clips and other common items. The only bit that didn’t work for me... Read more

I just got off the phone from a live, on-air chat with Bill Hogg, host of the Hogg Wild radio show on KGNW 820 AM in Seattle. We talked about Munich, Brokeback Mountain, Hostel and a few other things, and it was pretty fun. I had never heard of his show before one of his producers contacted me about doing an interview, and I was caught off guard the first time they played a “He can’t be serious!” audio clip... Read more

Click here to see the European trailer for The King, which stars William Hurt as a married pastor with a family and Gael Garcia Bernal as the illegitimate son the pastor never knew he had. The film opens in France on January 25, but the IMDb indicates it probably won’t open in North America until some time in May, at the earliest. Read more

We all know that Uwe Boll makes crappy movies. Alone in the Dark (2005) was easily one of the trashiest movies I have ever seen — though it was also one of last year’s more enjoyable moviegoing experiences, simply because the theatre was packed with champion hecklers. The evening couldn’t have been more fun if we had all remembered to bring tomatoes and throw ’em at the screen. More recently, the critics have savaged BloodRayne (2005), and the poster for... Read more

My review of Tristan & Isolde is now up at CT Movies, as is my review of Hoodwinked. Read more

Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet for the link. Read more

See introductory post here. These are the Canadian and North American box-office totals for films that played in 2006, as of their last appearance in the Canadian top ten. Click here for 2005. Since Canada has about 9.7% of the combined Canadian-American population, red indicates the films that made over 10.7% of their money in Canada, orange the films that attracted about the same proportion of Canadians as Americans, and green the ones that made less than 8.7% of their... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Memoirs of a Geisha — CDN $5,170,502 — N.AM $39,861,859 — 13.0%Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — CDN $33,916,610 — N.AM $281,516,498 — 12.0%Munich — CDN $2,662,703 — N.AM $25,350,740 — 10.5%Brokeback Mountain — CDN $2,235,558 — N.AM $22,436,190 — 10.0%Fun with Dick and Jane — CDN $7,952,122... Read more