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Three to See: Folk Fest feast, The Conversation and Train to Busan sequel

Folk Fest feast: While it seems bananas the Edmonton Folk Music Festival simply isn’t happening this weekend in any form we recognize, organizers have come up with a number of ...
'Kindergarten Cop' screening canned for 'romanticizing over-policing'

The ’90s comedy flick Kindergarten Cop has been axed from an Oregon film festival after protesters chimed in claiming the movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger glorified police traumatizing children and even ...
Entertainment
Nicole Leier aims high in Hollywood North

Vancouver actor Nicole Leier isn't taking no for an answer when it comes to her art.
Movies
Life imitates art in Jay Baruchel's dark horror

But interesting ideas don't always translate into great entertainment, says Chris Knight
Movies
Future Tiger King hams it up as prince of jaguars in Primal

Nicolas Cage gives his usual over-the-top performance, says Chris Knight, but the film can't quite keep up
Movies
Sometimes it's enough if you can carry a tune

The Cuban isn't the most complicated film to come to a drive-in near you, says Chris Knight, but it's heartfelt in its simplicity
Local News
Windsor International Film Festival plans drive-in movie event on riverfront

When was the last time you went to a drive-in movie theatre? Organizers of the Windsor International Film Festival are reviving the tradition with WIFF Under the Stars, Aug. 28 ...
Local News
Amidst a pandemic, Cinefest mixes things up

Lineup for 2020 festival will be revealed later this month

Movies
Courteney Cox to reunite with ex David Arquette in 'Scream' reboot

Courteney Cox will reunite with ex David Arquette onscreen after agreeing to reprise her classic horror role in the new Scream reboot.
Columnists
Baranyai: Simulating intimacy in film and television even trickier in times of coronavirus

Portraying sex in movies is notoriously tricky.
Music
Three to See: the Free Wall, Tanyss Nixi and John Lewis: Good Trouble

Three to See is back, and like everything under pandemic reality, it’s a little different, ever shifting, and trying hard.
Local Entertainment
Delayed production of 'Connecting Flights' resumes in Stony Plain

The piece is an adaptation of Canadian playwright Ron Blicq's Closure.
Local News
Sudbury's SilverCity reopens on Friday

'Sudbury is one of our more popular theatres, so it was an easy choice for the team here'
Movies
Toronto International Film Festival announces scaled down 2020 lineup

The festival this year will run one day shorter than usual, from Sept. 10 to Sept. 19
Toronto & GTA
Cineplex reopening seven Toronto theatres this Friday

After reopening cinemas in various cities across Canada earlier this month, Cineplex has announced that it will welcome back moviegoers to 25 of its theatres in Ontario this Friday.
Movies
TIFF 2020: Toronto sets film festival lineup

The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled the 50 titles it will screen as part of a slimmed down edition of this year’s annual celebration of cinema.

Movies
Periscope down! More great submarine movies

Last week, our column focused on films about submarines. Today, we continue our look at submarine movies, as there are quite a number of them! Crimson Tide, 1995, stars Gene ...
Movies
Diving deep to find some film treasures

Last week, our column focused on films about disasters at sea involving cruise ships. This week, submarine films.
Movies
Cruise ship disasters fodder for films

Cruising has grown more and more popular in recent years, with a corresponding rise in accidents and problems with cruise ships.
Movies
Excellent films produced in the '30s

The 1930s are well known for some great films that inspired re-makes and sequels in later decades. An example of this is entitled Werewolf of London, 1935, with Henry Hull.
Movies
The 'Roaring '20s' make for some great movies

We spent three weeks looking at movies about World War I; now we need to look at the 1920s and the movies of that time.
Movies
Glenn Ford another of the great workhorses of film

Glenn Ford is not always considered a top star in motion pictures, but in fact, Ford was a huge star, appearing in more than three television series and 100 movies.
Movies
Broad range of films concerning World War One

Our next column on film and World War I covers more of the broad range of that war’s films. World War I saw the first major use of air warfare.
Movies
Tribute paid the fantastically-talented Christopher Plummer

One of the finest actors in the history of entertainment is a Canadian, Christopher Plummer, star of stage, radio, television, and movies.
Movies
Mounties in the movies

We have looked at the blue and the grey of the Civil War, the blue-shirted Cavalry of the American West, and the red-jacketed infantry of the British Empire.
Movies
Wealth of films examine Anglo-Indian experience

Our last column focused on the British in India, particularly on films made earlier in the 20th Century showing the resentment amongst Indians to British colonial rule.