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Unfortunately, this year’s Toronto International Film Festival Short Cuts Canada program won’t feature a new film by Knock Knock (Who’s There?) Comedy! members (and former EYE WEEKLY cover boys) Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany. But Friday’s one-night only event at the Royal will give viewers who missed such past TIFF triumphs...
BY Adam Nayman
Having established himself as one of television’s finest ensemble players on The Office, Rainn Wilson makes his requisite bid for big-screen stardom in The Rocker (see On Screen page 24), in which ...
BY Kieran Grant
At 42 years old, Steve Coogan seems as if he’s been around a lot longer than he has. He’s a comedy icon in the UK due to his TV creation Alan Partridge and, recently, the quietly brilliant Saxondale...
BY Philip Brown
The permanently cool cultural icon spoke to EYE WEEKLY about his career and the upcoming Fan Expo.
Bravely serving as one half of the summer movie season’s riskiest pairing, this 24-year-old actor and stand-up comic stars opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.
Richie Mehta’s Amal, about a Delhi rickshaw driver who becomes the oblivious pivot for high-stakes intrigue involving the cash-mad family of a deceased millionaire, began life as a short story written by Mehta’s brother Shaun. It was adapted into a short ...
Nanette Burstein’s American Teen, which follows four high schoolers in red-state Indiana through an emotionally fraught senior year, is likely to be one of the year’s most successful documentaries. The 38-year-old director (who received an ...
Julian Jarrold’s adaptation — or reimagination — of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is not likely to be embraced by purists, but it does feature excellent lead performances by some of the best young British actors around. On a recent visit ...
One of world cinema’s most significant talents to emerge this decade, Carlos Reygadas has crafted three arresting and ambitious features that place him firmly in a lineage of such transcendental-minded filmmakers as Dreyer, Bresson and Tarkovsky — noble ...
A fanciful yet deeply felt homage to his hometown, My Winnipeg (see On Screen page 13) may be both Guy Maddin’s most personal project and his film with the broadest appeal. While non-Winnipeggers might have trouble fully connecting with the anguish Maddin ...