Articles by James Keast

Ethan Hawke

Jazz Junkie

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2016

"The movie's not trying to be a factually accurate biopic," Ethan Hawke tells me about Born to Be Blue, an exploration of a year in West co...

Daredevil

Season Two

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2016

For the second season of its Marvel universe flagship, Daredevil, Netflix sends the foundational show further down the rabbit hole of the c...

NBA's Matt Bonner Talks Alt Star Party, Drake and His Second Home

PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2016

NBA basketball player Matt Bonner is coming home and bringing Girl Talk as the headliner of his annual charity Alt Star Party with him. The...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

J.J. Abrams

PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2015

Star Wars is no longer a movie franchise — it's a corporate juggernaut aimed at colonizing not just young minds, but those (like mine) whos...

Trevor Noah

Sony Centre, Toronto ON, September 26

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2015

Trevor Noah landed at JFL42 in a headlining spot that he earned not with his stand-up career, but on the basis of a job he hasn't even star...

Moshe Kasher

Royal Theatre, Toronto ON, September 25

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2015

Oakland born'n'bred comic Moshe Kasher showcased the evolution of his comedy to a slightly tentative but ultimately won-over crowd on Colle...

Rhys Darby

Royal Theatre, Toronto ON, September 25

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2015

New Zealand character actor Rhys Darby is best known to North American audiences as Murray, the hapless band manager from Flight of the Con...

Brian Posehn

Royal Theatre, Toronto ON, September 24

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2015

Brian Posehn is devolving — not as a comic or as a performer, but physically deteriorating from the metal- and comics-obsessed nerd h...