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David Bowie's boy Duncan Jones shoots for Moon
Gangsters to Favela: Brazilian film fest hits town
My Sister's Keeper's Abigail Breslin hangs tough
Kibatsu Cinema film series showcases the idiosyncratic
Fair-weather film festivals let you travel the world
Cameron Diaz embraces motherhood role in My Sister's Keeper
Transformers' special-effects supervisor sees field morphing
In Summer Hours, art collects a torn family
July 2, 2009 - 05:50 AM

David Bowie's boy Duncan Jones shoots for Moon

By Ken Eisner
Duncan Jones has worked hard to escape his father's thin white shadow. And yet once you delve into the content of his first feature film, Moon, it turns out to have some strikingly autobiographical elements.
July 2, 2009 - 05:40 AM

Gangsters to Favela: Brazilian film fest hits town

By Ken Eisner
Among the eight features and six shorts offered at this year’s Brazilian Film Festival of Vancouver, playing at the Vancity Theatre from July 8 to 12, standouts include smart documentaries and several zippy thrillers.
June 25, 2009 - 06:00 AM

My Sister's Keeper's Abigail Breslin hangs tough

By Ian Caddell
Thirteen-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 25, 2009 - 05:50 AM

Kibatsu Cinema film series showcases the idiosyncratic

By Craig Takeuchi
The seven films in the Kibatsu Cinema film series, which include documentaries, comedies, and animation, will present unique perspectives and perhaps challenge some stereotypes about Japan.
June 18, 2009 - 06:10 AM

Fair-weather film festivals let you travel the world

By Craig Takeuchi
Celluloid series celebrate everything from film noir to queer cinema, and let you travel from Taiwan to France this summer.
June 18, 2009 - 06:00 AM

Cameron Diaz embraces motherhood role in My Sister's Keeper

By Ian Caddell
Fifteen years after she got her big break in The Mask opposite Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz appears to have moved on from playing femmes fatales.
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June 18, 2009 - 05:50 AM

Transformers' special-effects supervisor sees field morphing

By Ken Eisner
Since the late 1960s, John Frazier has been one of the top blam artists, planting charges and lighting fuses.
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June 18, 2009 - 05:40 AM

In Summer Hours, art collects a torn family

By Ian Caddell
When 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 18, 2009 - 05:30 AM

Victoria Day plumbs teen turmoil

By Brian Lynch
Victoria Day, looks back to the time and setting of his own teenage years. Yet it’s hardly a work of nostalgia, given how the young characters at the centre of the film are so totally at odds with their era and so absorbed in the pop culture of a decade they never knew.
June 11, 2009 - 05:50 AM

Sam Mendes plays games in Away We Go

By Ian Caddell
Expectations 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

Thomas Haden Church worships wit in Imagine That

By Ian Caddell
Although 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 11, 2009 - 05:30 AM

Departures gives death a lift

By Craig Takeuchi
When director Yojiro Takita spotlighted the nokanshi (encoffineers), who prepare bodies for cremation or burial in a ceremony, in his film Departures (Okuribito), his effort was honoured with an Oscar for best foreign-language film at this year’s Academy Awards.
June 8, 2009 - 11:08 AM

Nick Cassavetes tackles painful truths in My Sister's Keeper

By Ian Caddell
Director 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.
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June 8, 2009 - 09:23 AM

Denzel Washington takes a trip back in time for The Taking of Pelham 123

By Ian Caddell
Like his character in The Taking of Pelham 123, Denzel Washington himself has worked his way up from beneath New York City.
June 4, 2009 - 06:00 AM

Summer movies from hippies to Harry Potter

By Ken Eisner
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll jump out of your seat and have to buy more popcorn!
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