Articles by Ian Mackenzie

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  Childstar

  Don McKellar

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Don McKellar's second feature, Childstar, is all about being literal. It's about a child star — a popular 12-year-old American sitcom actor...

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  Soul Plane

  Jessy Terrero

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Judging by the extras, the cast and crew had a great time making Soul Plane. Director Jessy Terrero listened to his actors when they sugges...

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  The Village

  M. Night Shyamalan

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  Increasingly, director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable) is using his twist ending technique not as a final poignant flouri...

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  The Charlie Chan Chanthology

  Phil Rosen and Phil Karlson

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  Having a Caucasian put on yellow-face to play Chinese is a dubious enough starting point for these '40s era Charlie Chan films. The fact th...

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  The Day After Tomorrow

  Roland Emmerich

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  Director Roland Emmerich's films (Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot) have tended towards oversimplified good-versus-evil scenarios in...

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  Independence Day

  Roland Emmerich

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  This is director Roland Emmerich's biggest blockbuster shamelessly re-released as a tie-in for his latest film, The Day After Tomorrow. To...

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  The Alamo

  John Wayne

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  John Wayne's tribute to the American spirit of resistance gets by mostly on the considerable merits of its cast and the historical content...

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  Cold Creek Manor

  Mike Figgis

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Mike Figgis's limp psychological thriller feels like a twist-ending movie without the twist. A family of beautiful white folks leave New Yo...