Articles by Ian Caddell.
June 25, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesThirteen-year-old Abigail Breslin is not yet a household name despite having accomplished something that several more famous child stars of recent vintage have been unable to achieve.
June 18, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesFifteen years after she got her big break in
The Mask opposite Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz appears to have moved on from playing femmes fatales.
June 18, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesWhen
Summer Hours director Olivier Assayas had finished writing his screenplay about a dying woman’s fascination with the art objects she had collected throughout her life, he decided to take a unique approach.
June 11, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesExpectations are high for director Sam Mendes's fifth film,
Away We Go, which appears to be the third in a trilogy about marriage.
June 11, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesAlthough Thomas Haden Church is older than Eddie Murphy, he was a big fan of Murphy’s when he was in college and the teenaged Murphy was starring in
Saturday Night Live.
June 8, 2009 - 11:08 AM
Movies FeaturesDirector Nick Cassavetes knew that
My Sister's Keeper, about a couple who create a child through chemistry in order to save a daughter dying of cancer, would not be easy to watch but felt that it could still be entertaining.
June 8, 2009 - 09:23 AM
Movies FeaturesLike his character in
The Taking of Pelham 123, Denzel Washington himself has worked his way up from beneath New York City.
June 4, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Movies FeaturesJohn Krasinski owes a lot to Sam Mendes. It was Mendes who cast him as a Marine in
Jarhead, a significant credit on Krasinski’s résumé when he auditioned to play Jim Halpert in
The Office.
June 4, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesIt’s rare that a filmmaker will take a moment out from talking about his movie for a word about his sponsors. However, that’s what
The Hangover director Todd Phillips does in the middle of an interview at Caesars Palace.
June 4, 2009 - 05:45 AM
Movies FeaturesWhen director Tony Scott set out to remake the 1974 film
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, he altered the plot.
June 4, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesWhen Karey Kirkpatrick heard that a film he wanted to do was attached to the notorious Eddie Murphy, he had some concerns.
May 28, 2009 - 06:10 AM
Movies FeaturesPlaying a con man who acts his way through life shouldn’t be much of a stretch for an Oscar-winning actor.
May 28, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesIn
The Hangover, his first lead film role, Ed Helms plays Stu Price, an L.A. dentist who seems to strive for boredom.
May 21, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesHis
Terminator Salvation director, McG, admits in an L.A. hotel room that Christian Bale isn’t the easiest actor to work with but says that he was right to fight for the role of John Connor.
May 8, 2009 - 8:11 PM
Blog - Movies The first film debate of the summer is over before the movies that started it have even been released.
May 7, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesEven though he made Los Angeles his home two decades ago, Vancouver-raised actor and
Star Trek star Bruce Greenwood may be the most quintessential British Columbian of all our actors.
April 30, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesJennifer Garner, rather famously married to Ben Affleck, says that unlike her bridesmaid character in
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, she was never interested in spending time with someone who she knew would cause her pain.
April 30, 2009 - 05:30 AM
Movies FeaturesStar Trek's original Spock, Leonard Nimoy, says he was impressed by decisions that Zachary Quinto—who takes over the iconic role in the newest
Star Trek movie—made during his performance.
April 26, 2009 - 4:50 PM
Blog - Movies The proverbial elephant is in the room at a press conference held to promote the new film version of
Star Trek.
April 23, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesRobert Downey Jr. came to the set of
The Soloist, where he had been hired to play real-life
Los Angeles Times reporter Steve Lopez, from two rather bizarre roles.
April 23, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesThe lead role in
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the story of a hedonistic, marriage-hating playboy photographer who dates actors and models by the dozens would appear to be tailor-made for Matthew McConaughey.
April 16, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesIt’s not often that an interview begins with a reporter asking a star if he has heard that one of his costars has told a magazine that the star is having a difficult time with stardom.
April 16, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesJamie Foxx had already won an Academy Award for playing Ray Charles but came to the conclusion that the role of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers would be more demanding.
April 16, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesDirector Steve McQueen's new film
Hunger was considered to be one of the best films at the festival and won him the Discovery Award for best new director.
April 9, 2009 - 05:35 AM
Movies FeaturesFor just a moment, in the middle of a news conference in a Los Angeles hotel room for the movie
17 Again, Matthew Perry appears to be channelling Chandler Bing.
April 2, 2009 - 06:10 AM
Movies FeaturesItalian filmmaker Matteo Garrone's new film
Gomorrah tells several stories about crime in Naples.
April 2, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesIn
Observe and Report, Ray Liotta plays Det. Harrison, a veteran police officer sent to a local mall after a flasher is spotted in the parking lot.
April 2, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesIt was Greg Mottola’s story, but Ryan Reynolds could relate to the screenplay for the movie
Adventureland.
April 2, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesKiefer Sutherland has been working in the U.S. for so long that it’s easy to forget that his Canadian roots include a father who spent his days in China on the set of
Bethune listening on the phone to every inning of games played by his beloved Montreal Expos.
March 26, 2009 - 07:00 AM
Movies FeaturesSet in 1840,
Before Tomorrow tells the story of Ninioq and her grandson, who leave their village to dry fish on a remote island shortly after hearing rumours about encounters with white explorers.
March 26, 2009 - 06:30 AM
Movies FeaturesReese Witherspoon’s decision to take on her first voice-over role was a result of the influence of two generations.
March 26, 2009 - 06:20 AM
Movies FeaturesTwilight star Kristen Stewart plays a girl who asserts her independence from her wealthy father and new stepmother by working at a lousy job at an amusement park in the new film
Adventureland.
March 25, 2009 - 10:11 AM
Blog - Movies Observe and Report writer/director Jody Hill doesn’t want anyone to confuse his film with any other movies about mall cops.
March 21, 2009 - 1:19 PM
Blog - Movies There will definitely be a movie version of the television series
Arrested Development. However, fans of the show, which had a small but loyal audience, have been hearing that since the show went off the air in 2006.
March 19, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesIn
Examined Life, documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor takes her philosophers out of the classroom and into the streets.
March 19, 2009 - 05:45 AM
Movies FeaturesNicolas Cage says that the choice his father made influenced his decision to take a lead role in the movie
Knowing, which tells the story of a college professor who concludes he may have found the secret to the universe.
March 19, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesIn
I Love You, Man, Paul Rudd plays Peter Klaven, a newly engaged man who is told by his fiancée that he needs to find male friends for the wedding party.
March 15, 2009 - 3:11 PM
Blog - Movies If you have aspirations of making a comedy about relationships between young people in the new Millennium, it’s unlikely anyone will hand you a pot-full of marketing money unless you allow them to include some elements of broad comedy in the ads and trailer.
March 12, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Movies FeaturesUnlike some Hollywood brats, Rashida Jones’s success has been accomplished without any help from Mom and Dad.
March 12, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesRose Byrne admits she has grown out of a strange phase. The Australian star of a new film about the gift of prophecy says she could relate to the movie, called
Knowing, because there was a time in her life when she was a true believer.
March 5, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesDirected by
300’s Zack Snyder, it is quite possible that the movie version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s iconic graphic novel
Watchmen would never have been made if
300 had not been one of the biggest hits of the new millennium.
February 26, 2009 - 05:30 AM
Movies FeaturesJackie Earle Haley costars in
Watchmen,
300 director Zack Snyder’s Vancouver-shot movie about a vigilante named Rorschach (Haley) who assembles former superheroes to avenge the death of one of their own.
February 16, 2009 - 1:17 PM
Movies FeaturesThey may be 6,000 of the most powerful men and women in show business, but does anyone in Hollywood get more annual grief than the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
February 12, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesIn between having babies, Naomi Watts hit Berlin and Milan to play an assistant district attorney investigating a highly suspect European bank in
The International.
February 12, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesFriday the 13th actor Jared Padalecki feels better than ever about his adopted hometown Vancouver, where he lives while shooting the CW series
Supernatural.
February 5, 2009 - 05:50 AM
Movies FeaturesClive Owen was not chosen to play James Bond, but in his latest film,
The International, he does get to play a character who somewhat resembles Bond, and with a plot in which the secret agent would feel at home.
February 5, 2009 - 05:45 AM
Movies FeaturesOf Time and the City, which opens in Vancouver on February 6, is a documentary that looks at how filmmaker Terence Davies' formative years were affected by his hometown of Liverpool.
February 5, 2009 - 05:40 AM
Movies FeaturesIn
The Pink Panther 2, actor Jean Reno is surrounded by English and American actors whose characters have French names and, in the case of costars Emily Mortimer and Martin, employ fake French accents.
February 5, 2009 - 05:30 AM
Movies FeaturesGerman-born director Marcus Nispel decided he had one more remake left in him and agreed to follow up 2003’s
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a new
Friday the 13th.
January 29, 2009 - 06:00 AM
Movies FeaturesSteve Martin returns as bumbling police inspector Jacques Clouseau in
The Pink Panther 2, the sequel to the 2006 hit that showed off his physical comedy skills and introduced him to a new group of fans.
