TORONTO--Hath not a Jew eyes? There's a reason filmmakers have avoided The Merchant of Venice. Television and stage productions of Shakespeare's most controversial play have...
TORONTO--R & B just may have been named after Ruth Brown. "That's what they tell me," she said. The septuagenarian singer touched a finger to two gold-leaf initial pins on...
TORONTO--Director Brad Anderson knows what people want to find out after they see The Machinist. The question everyone can't help asking: Christian Bale lost how much weight...
TORONTO--The Polar Express has two big stars: Tom Hanks--who's playing five different roles, including Santa Claus and a seven-year-old boy--and the next generation of a...
TORONTO--What if two men woke up in leg irons on opposite sides of a bathroom and instead of a key, all they have to free themselves is a saw? It's not strong enough to cut...
TORONTO--When she was approached to star in Stage Beauty, Claire Danes was nervous about her lack of real-life stage experience. "I really haven't done any theatre and I was...
TORONTO--Paul Gross jokes that the real reason he wanted to play a police officer in the new Canadian movie Wilby Wonderful was so that he could finally carry a gun.
When Emmanuelle Béart, talking to the Straight at last fall's Toronto International Film Festival, recalled playing a prostitute, she could just as easily have been...
The actual award for World's Stupidest Man is on display in the lobby of the Van East Cinema, where the documentary Stupidity is currently playing. The award, effortlessly...