Articles by James Keast

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  King Kong

  Peter Jackson

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Peter Jackson has unceremoniously yanked the blockbuster crown out the hands of Spielberg, Lucas, Cameron and Bay, first with The LOTR tril...

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  Sounds Like Celluoid

  FILM FESTIVAL

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Kudos are due to anyone willing to tackle creating a music-oriented film festival, but the organisers of Vancouver's Big Smash, which takes...

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  Canadian Pundit

  COMIC

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Guelph cartoonist Gareth Lind's weekly strip Weltschmerz, which appears in various Southern Ontario papers, is a politically current, left-...

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  Dog Day Afternoon

  Sidney Lumet

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Amongst numerous memorable moments in cinema history, some of the most iconic ones turn out to be improvised. (Dustin Hoffman's Ratzo Rizzo...

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  Jarhead

  Sam Mendes

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Jarhead, the most unusual war movie ever made during wartime, is an odd film in that it accomplishes what it sets out to do, but the more s...

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  V For Vendetta

  James McTeigue

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  The V For Vendetta that's hitting theatres is not the comic book originally published in England's Thatcher-ruled 1980s. One look at the cr...

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  Inside Man

  Spike Lee

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Inside Man is upfront about the shell game it's playing with its audience: the bank heist that unfolds before us, perpetrated by Dalton Rus...

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  Crumb: Special Edition

  Terry Zwigoff

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  It was with this 1994 film that documentary that director Terry Zwigoff brought insight and understanding to the world of artist Robert Cru...