Posts from — July 2008

This intense indie drama of unlikely female partners involved in a smuggling operation on the Canadian border is a bracing character study.

Sometimes the sizzle is better than the steak, and sometimes the drama swirling around a film’s release is a lot more interesting than the film itself. Case in point: this week’s release of “The Midnight Meat Train,” an R-rated horror movie based on a short story by Clive Barker, the acclaimed horror writer who wrote and directed the now-classic horror flick “Hellraiser,” which like “The …

In Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River , two mothers begin smuggling illegal aliens across the Canadian border by way of the St. Lawrence River. One of them is white American, the other is Native American. The white mother wants to rekindle the trust between her and her two sons.

The 2008 Sundance best-drama winner, set in the harsh terrain of upstate New York near the Canadian border, doesn’t disappoint

These women act upon their world. It could be called the Sundance Curse. Year after year, films win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival only to disappear instantly when they finally hit theaters. This year’s winner, “Frozen River,” is just the sort of modestly scaled, finely acted, deeply felt drama that the festival once built its name on — before the onset of hype, swag and …

A man on board a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses have said.

DEBORAH KOONS GARCIA, widow of Jerry Garcia, will show the film “Seeds of In Good Heart: Soil and the Mystery of Fertility,” at the Wine Country Film Festival Sunday, July 27. She will appear at the festival’s Planet Party on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, July 31 (UPI) — Canadian actress Rachel McAdams turned up for her ex-boyfriend Ryan Gosling’s deejay debut at a Hollywood club this week.

Melissa Leo’s new film Frozen River  evokes a sense of danger and fear just hearing the tiitle alone. Leo ( 21 Grams ) portrays a grizzly, chain-smoking, gun-shooting woman by the name of Ray Eddy, whose husband has taken off, again, and she’s struggling to hold onto her home and look out for her two young boys.

CBC journalist Carol Off wins broadcasting award Last Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2008 | 10:58 AM ET CBC journalist Carol Off’s body of work …

CBC journalist Carol Off wins broadcasting award Last Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2008 | 10:58 AM ET CBC journalist Carol Off’s body of work …

When Dave Ritchie was coaching in the Canadian Football League, especially when he was in charge of lousy teams in Winnipeg, he often said every rookie a team’s forced to dress will cost it one game.

It’s a double-O duet. Alicia Keys and Jack White have recorded the theme song for the new James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace,” producers said yesterday.

Akshay will arrive at Vancouver’s PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) — in a helicopter no less — and give them a concert to remember on August 2. The actor will especially promote his upcoming film, Singh Is Kinng, in the city, which has a large Sikh community.

Canadian rocker Bryan Adams will take a break from his stadium shows across the continent to do a couple of intimate shows in Toronto this fall. Since his start in the early eighties, Bryan Adams has been one of the most popular Canadian artists in the world.

When Dave Ritchie was coaching in the Canadian Football League, especially when he was in charge of lousy teams in Winnipeg, he often said every rookie a team’s forced to dress will cost it one game.