"When I was born, my twin brother died and took our mother with him.” And so begins Nikki Caro’s wrenching, resplendent second film, Whale R...

Climbing a mountain can always be relied upon to stand in as a readymade meditation on the joys and perils of self-discovery. Touching the V...

Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed) is the junior-high school equivalent of the girl with the most cake. The boys know it but most importantly the girl...

After watching The Company, Robert Altman's latest contribution to the film canon, you can't help but think that the life of a ballerina is...

When troubled poet and novelist Sylvia Plath gassed herself in her London apartment 40 years ago, she left behind two young children, one te...

Sometime in early 2001, Metallica and their crew holed up in a converted barracks in San Francisco's Presidio and set out towards recording...

On the surface, a series about dressmaking promises to have about as much flexibility as a Vivienne Westwood corset. And yes, it borrows com...

The well-intentioned but ultimately sleepy documentary Watermark documents the Hakoah sports club, a large, dynamic Jewish sports organisati...

Writing a how-to guide on exploring forbidden places has got to be second nature when you have a handle like Ninjalicious. With Talmudic-lik...

When God appears to Ralph Walker (Adam Butcher), the plucky 14-year-old hero of Canadian film-maker Michael McGowan's colossally sentimental...

From an artistic standpoint, sequels, for the most part, rarely live up to expectations — most fail miserably, leaving their fan base embitt...

In David Duchovny's directorial debut, House of D, he plays Thomas, an American artist in Paris who dwells on the events of his 13th year. S...

In April of 1994, Canadian General Roméo Dallaire was assigned by the United Nations to oversee a peacekeeping unit in the troubled African...

For seven years, FBI agent Stan Lloyd (Woody Harrelson) has chased career jewel thieves and lovers Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and Lola (Sa...

Do biopics ever generate good movies or are they simply paint-by-numbers movie-making exercises? Though dramatically facile and shallow as s...

When we meet Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) at the beginning of Legally Blonde, she is a chirpy fashion merchandising major at a Southern Ca...

On July fourth, 1910, Jack Johnson, the son of a former slave, became the first black man to win the heavyweight boxing championship. Brash,...

What if your spouse was kidnapped and your life pretty much stayed the same? This is the dilemma Eileen Hayes (Helen Mirren) finds herself i...

Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) is a happily married mother and housecleaner with a sprite-like face and a demeanour as bright as the mantles s...

In April of 1994, Canadian General Roméo Dallaire was assigned by the United Nations to oversee a peacekeeping unit in the troubled African...