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How to Train Your Dragon’s head wrangler Dean DeBlois tells beastly tale

How to Train Your Dragon’s head wrangler Dean DeBlois tells beastly tale

By Patty Jones | March 18, 2010
Like all the best people working in comedy, Dean DeBlois appreciates a good boob joke. Not that the perfectly silly one in the writer-director’s new 3-D animated film is very naughty.
Director Floria Sigismondi captures rock’s bad girls in The Runaways

Director Floria Sigismondi captures rock’s bad girls in The Runaways

By Ken Eisner | March 18, 2010
You don’t have to have seen The Runaways, the new biopic about Joan Jett’s early years as a teenage rocker, to know the directorial flair of Floria Sigismondi, an Italian-born, Canadian-raised filmmaker now based in the U.S.
Don McKellar cooks up a tasty passage to India in Cooking With Stella

Don McKellar cooks up a tasty passage to India in Cooking With Stella

By Janet Smith | March 17, 2010
Don McKellar hadn’t planned for his role in Cooking With Stella to be an exercise in method acting, but the same kinds of culture shock happening on-screen were occurring every day while he was shooting the film in India.
Vancouver's spring film festivals defy odds

Vancouver's spring film festivals defy odds

By Ken Eisner | March 11, 2010
Technically, it’s still winter outside, but spring has sprung as far as film festivals are concerned.
Alice and Other Heroes uses live music to tell heroic tales

Alice and Other Heroes uses live music to tell heroic tales

By Jennifer Van Evra | March 11, 2010
Daniel Janke may have been on a trip to the Czech Republic, but it was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that captured his imagination.
Casting was key for A Prophet

Casting was key for A Prophet

By Ian Caddell | March 4, 2010
Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain were pretty sure they had a good screenplay when they set out to get Un Prophète (A Prophet) into production.
Family sacrifice moves Last Train Home filmmaker Lixin Fan

Family sacrifice moves Last Train Home filmmaker Lixin Fan

By Craig Takeuchi | March 4, 2010
In the winter of 2006, the southern Chinese railway system was paralyzed by a snowstorm, with 60,000 people stuck at the Guangzhou train station. Montreal-based director Lixin Fan calls what he saw a “war zone”.
Small role in Brooklyn’s Finest suits Wesley Snipes just fine

Small role in Brooklyn’s Finest suits Wesley Snipes just fine

By Ken Eisner | March 4, 2010
If anyone knows how the game of Hollywood is played, that would be Wesley Snipes.
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Director Kevin Smith stretches for Cop Out

Director Kevin Smith stretches for Cop Out

March 4, 2010
The director of independent films like Clerks and Chasing Amy is sitting in a New York City hotel room discussing the new experience of being a director for hire without screenplay input.
Oscar nominees to root for at this year's Academy Awards

Oscar nominees to root for at this year's Academy Awards

By Ian Caddell | March 2, 2010
Here are some of the films and people whose victories would make the show memorable. They range from sentimental favourites to locally produced talent and fortunate individuals who beat the odds just by winning a nomination.
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Tracy Morgan’s no comic Cop Out

Tracy Morgan’s no comic Cop Out

February 25, 2010
After almost 20 years in show business Tracy Morgan is getting his big break, costarring with Bruce Willis in the action film Cop Out.
Oren Moverman's The Messenger targets war tales

Oren Moverman's The Messenger targets war tales

By Ken Eisner | February 25, 2010
A war story that barely mentions the war, The Messenger quietly studies the long-range, mostly hidden effects of this officially engineered violence.
Radha Mitchell tapped inner angst for The Crazies

Radha Mitchell tapped inner angst for The Crazies

By Steve Newton | February 25, 2010
Radha Mitchell is no Hollywood scream queen, but the 36-year-old Aussie has taken on her fair share of fierce monsters and supernatural forces.
Comics inspire Peter Stebbings's dark Defendor

Comics inspire Peter Stebbings's dark Defendor

By Mark Leiren-Young | February 18, 2010
Like any good comic-book movie, Peter Stebbings’s Defendor was inspired by Feodor Dostoyevsky.
Reel Injun cuts through clichés

Reel Injun cuts through clichés

By Craig Takeuchi | February 18, 2010
From 2010 Winter Olympics medals and mascots to the opening ceremony, Native iconography has never been as prevalent in modern Vancouver as it is now.
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