By Mark Leiren-Young I read Spider-Man in the original Sanskrit. No, I’m not old enough, or lucky enough to have picked up Amazing Fantasy number 15, which featured the first ever appearance of everyone’s favourite wacky wall-crawler, whose latest movie incarnation debuted in North America this week, but I also wasn’t introduced to Peter Parker, […]
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Paul Gross walked the plank on “Battleship”
A BoB short: Paul Gross tells The Calgary Herald he was fired as screenwriter from the Hollywood mega-film Battleship, which opened in North America last weekend to generally lousy reviews and even worse box-office. “Alongside fellow Albertan scribe John Krizanc, Gross took a run at revising a screenplay originally written by Jon and Erich Hoeber,” […]
Samuel L. Jackson, Canadian movie star
By Mark Leiren-Young It takes years to make a movie. It takes less than 48 hours to determine its fate. If the box office numbers from Friday and Saturday night aren’t impressive, a movie won’t be in theatres the following week. Samuel L. Jackson’s latest, The Samaritan, opens tonight and if you’re looking for a […]
“Bully” gets a bigger pulpit
By Montreal Simon It never made any sense. A movie where children kill each other gets a PG-13 rating, a documentary about children getting bullied gets rated R. So I’m glad to see that Bully has been reclassified. I’m happy that kids are going to be able to see it, and that the new rating […]
Revisited: Billy Elliot’s big city jive
The musical Billy Elliot opened in Toronto the other night, with its composer, Sir Elton, in attendance. The Globe loved it. The Post didn’t. But great or whatever, it’s liable to hang around Toronto for as long as it has London and New York, because this is the ultimate big-city musical. In the following 2009 […]
Welcome to Canada, Randy Quaid
By Frank Moher Dear Randy Quaid: I hear Canadian authorities have decided to let you stay in Canada, and, indeed, that Canadian citizenship is now in the works for you. That’s because your wife’s dad was Canadian, so she was able to get her citizenship earlier this month, which means you can now get yours […]
James Cameron to visit the oilsands: FUBAR!
By Nicole Walyshyn Forget Nancy Pelosi. The news that James Cameron is coming to visit the oilsands, combined with the premiere of Fubar 2 at the Toronto Film Festival last night, creates a perfect PR storm for Alberta. Cameron (who is, of course, the successfully grandiose director of Titanic and Avatar), advised Premier Ed Stelmach […]
Plot is dead, Tom Cruise is just dancing on the grave
By Rachel Krueger The theory that there are only X number of plots in the world has been blamed for everything from Avatar being basically Dances With Fern Gully to the complete works of Shakespeare. I’m going to throw more Blame logs on the Blame fire because there is talk of a Les Grossman movie. […]
What if Megan Fox isn’t a total idiot?
By Rachel Krueger Megan Fox is the worst, right? I mean, girl can’t act her way out of a paper bag. Also, she hasn’t yet figured out if she wants to be sexy and inscrutable, a la Angelina Jolie, or farty and fun — like Jonah Hill, but with boobs — and all this confusion […]
Daniel Day-Lewis: Cure for Hollywood’s llls
By Rachel Krueger If last year’s film version of the musical Nine is at all true to life (and I hope that it is, as there are gratuitous tambourines) then Daniel Day-Lewis gets all the ladies. And apparently he is good for what ails you. Exhibit A: Nicole Kidman. The frozen-faced starlet has wandered vaguely […]
