Search

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail EXTERIOR: SHEEP MARKET - DAY. Jack, gormless (Barry Keoghan), stands inside a pen showing off his rams, the pricey lifeblood of [...]

Film’s title refers to bringing sheep in off the mountain, but bringing each other down – bitterly, and then gruesomely – is all these characters know how to do, EXTERIOR: SHEEP MARKET – DAY. Jack, gormless (Barry Keoghan), stands inside a pen showing off his rams, the pricey lifeblood of any flock. Jack’s neighbour Michael, eyes blazing (Christopher Abbott), [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail To Canadian actors, the Star Trek franchise is fast becoming what the Law & Order franchise is to New York theatre [...]

Star Trek: Section 31 actors Humberly González and Kacey Rohl on their separate paths to the franchise and the benefits of working with Michelle Yeoh, To Canadian actors, the Star Trek franchise is fast becoming what the Law & Order franchise is to New York theatre actors: a lucrative guest-star gig, and a rite of [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I have seen MAGA's America, and it is Landman. A week before Donald Trump's second inauguration as U.S. president, this Paramount+ [...]

Every week watching this show set deep in the heart of Texas oil country, I come away feeling like I’ve been slapped. If this is the ‘real’ America, it certainly isn’t ideal, I have seen MAGA’s America, and it is Landman. A week before Donald Trump’s second inauguration as U.S. president, this Paramount+ series – from the prolific writer/director/actor Taylor Sheridan, 54, [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER, AMBERLY MCATEER, BEN KAPLAN Tablet Johanna Schneller writes The Bigger Picture column in Globe Arts. A s a teenager, I used to snicker at the way my [...]

Three writers make the case for the technology that defines their cohort, As a teenager, I used to snicker at the way my stepfather, in restaurants, would casually drop his menu onto the floor – the only way he could get enough [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I know a handful of movies aren't going to change 300,000 years of human attitudes about women, beauty and aging. I [...]

Anderson’s life uniquely prepared her for the role of Shelly, a single mother performing in a Las Vegas revue, struggling to let go of her old life – just as the star that plays her is giddily shedding her own, I know a handful of movies aren’t going to change 300,000 years of human attitudes about women, beauty and aging. I know many people feel #MeToo is over, and Hollywood [...]

Halina Reijn understands why women respond to male-gaze fantasies like 9 ½ Weeks, Indecent Proposal, Damage and Presumed Innocent, but more importantly, she understands why their purring, either too passive or too femme-fatale heroines left her unsatisfied, An erotic thriller from a female point of view – Babygirl is that simple, and that complicated. Halina Reijn, the Dutch actor turned writer/director (her previous English-language film, Bodies Bodies [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail An erotic thriller from a female point of view - Babygirl is that simple, and that complicated. Halina Reijn, the Dutch [...]

Writer-Director Halina Reijn understands the difference between sex and desire, and her empathy for women gives even greater depth to the film, Babygirl Written and directed by Halina Reijn Starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Classification 18A; 114 minutes Opens in theatres Dec. 25 Critic’s Pick Babygirl is not about sex. There’s [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Are you too tired for tough TV? Does your brain feel overtaxed, overtaken by a buzzing static-screen of anxiety? Are you [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Kick-ass Kiwi woman recognizes kick-ass Kiwi woman. That's the simple explanation for why Lucy Lawless - the New Zealand-born star of [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The Return CLASSIFICATION: R; 116 MINUTES Directed by Uberto Pasolini, based on Homer's Odyssey Starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Charlie [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I don't know what kind of crazy lasers they have over there in France, but Juliette Binoche's skin is poreless. If [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Adollop of crime, a dash of romance, a touch of intrigue, a truckload of tinsel: Mistletoe Murders, the Canadian, Audible Original [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The Heirloom Written and Directed by Ben Petrie Starring Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie and Cheers (the dog) Calm dominance. That's the [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The author bio in Cher: The Memoir, Part One is five words long - 'Cher is a global icon' - but [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER The new AppleTV+ documentary Bread and Roses is anger and anguish in film form. It follows three women who, in the months after the Taliban entered Kabul [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Hugh Grant is playing to type in Heretic, the new horror thriller written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. [...]

Romantic comedies made him famous, but in the new horror thriller sees Grant settle into a man whose intelligence and charm have curdled into self-loathing for how easy it is to feign it, Hugh Grant is playing to type in Heretic, the new horror thriller written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, arriving Nov. 8. His Mr. Reed – a deceptively [...]

Canvassing For Kamala Harris convinced Johanna Schneller there are more kind, sane people in America than not, Nauseously optimistic. I’ve just spent three weeks volunteering for Kamala Harris in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania – some of the most contested turf in this most contested U.S. presidential [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, born June 18, 1952, may be the most interesting woman in the world. Born in Rome [...]

In Edward Berger’s timely new film, Rossellini is able to say so much in a character who’s mostly silent, Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, born June 18, 1952, may be the most interesting woman in the world. Born in Rome to legends – the actor Ingrid Bergman and the [...]

Director Sean Baker’s latest is an on-the-ground exploration of what economic inequity really feels like, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-mikey-madison-is-a-vip-hustler-for-the-ages-in-sean-bakers-uproarious/ really knows how to scream. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Scream (2022), she does it with her whole body, in a sustained pitch, at ear-splitting [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Mikey Madison really knows how to scream. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and Scream (2022), she does it [...]

Participants in the longest-running festival in Canada showing only work by women-identifying writers and/or directors sound off on the impact the festival has had, and why it’s still needed, The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF) celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, the longest-running festival in Canada showing only work by women-identifying writers and/or directors. The festival and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The St. John's International Women's Film Festival (SJIWFF) celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, the longest-running festival in Canada showing only [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Early in rehearsals for the new drama We Live in Time, director John Crowley (Brooklyn) could see that his stars, Florence [...]

The film’s detractors argue that its chopped-up chronology is a cheap trick to cover the thinness of the story – but loving someone means accepting their flaws and emphasizing their strengths, and this film has plenty, We Live in Time Written by Nick Payne Directed by John Crowley Starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh Over the last two decades, filmmakers have ceded serious love stories to [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail We Live in Time CLASSIFICATION: PG ; 104 MINUTES Written by Nick Payne Directed by John Crowley Starring Andrew Garfield and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The outrun is a literal thing, a field left wild on the edge of a farm. In the Orkneys, the wild, [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I've been waiting for the movies to catch up to our current obsession with "improving" our faces through procedures and surgeries. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail About a year ago, Rossif Sutherland was talking to his father, the acclaimed actor Donald Sutherland, about the lead role Rossif [...]

Stan is no stranger to transformation, but his latest role challenges us to confront our identity and whether anyone can actually become a different person, I’ve been waiting for the movies to catch up to our current obsession with “improving” our faces through procedures and surgeries. Facelifts, fillers, Botox, Ozempic and other weight-loss drugs, even [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail A Different Man CLASSIFICATION: 14A; 112 MINUTES Written and directed by Aaron Schimberg Starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson [...]

The senior Sutherland, who died in June, was attached to play a villain in a never-made film version of Murder in a Small Town, About a year ago, Rossif Sutherland was talking to his father, the acclaimed actor Donald Sutherland, about the lead role Rossif had just landed: compassionate sheriff Karl Alberg, in the [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I got a bit choked up talking to Canadian filmmaker Megan Park about the new comic drama she wrote and directed, [...]

The Canadian director credits industry peers, many of them women, with inspiring her to start writing scripts, I got a bit choked up talking to Canadian https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/filmmaking/Megan Park about the new comic drama she wrote and directed, My Old Ass, which opens Sept. 20. (We’ll get to [...]

The gem written and directed by Canadian Megan Park is full of authentic banter while it asks whether you’d want to know your future, My Old Ass Written and directed by Megan Park StarringAubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella and Percy Hynes White Classification14A; 88 minutes Opensin select theatres Sept. 20 Critic’s Pick That final summer [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ, JOHANNA SCHNELLER, KATE TAYLOR, BRAD WHEELER The Globe and Mail's film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year's Toronto [...]

The Globe and Mail’s film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which wraps up this Sunday, The Globe and Mail’s film festival writers present the highs, lows and all the moments in between from this year’s https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/tiff-toronto-international-film-festival/, which wraps up this Sunday. Best Accidental Trends Every [...]

Byline: Johanna Schneller; Special to The Globe and Mail There is a lovely, uneasy scene in the new Canadian co-production Bonjour Tristesse, which had its world premiere Thursday at the [...]

Chew-Bose is soft-spoken and thoughtful, but it’s clear that her artistic ambitions are lofty, There is a lovely, uneasy scene in the new Canadian co-production Bonjour Tristesse, which world premieres at the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/tiff-toronto-international-film-festival/ this week: During a drowsy summer holiday in a French Riviera [...]

With 278 titles to choose from, The Globe and Mail’s arts writers have suggestions for some of the most anticipated films this year, The strikes are over, the virtual screenings are behind us and the https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/tiff/ is back in full form for its 49th annual edition. But with 278 titles to choose from, [...]

Drawing on ‘90s pop-culture classics like My So-Called Life and Empire Records for inspiration, the show depicts the dwindling days of teenagehood in Winnipeg, Portage Place Mall in downtown Winnipeg was hopping last summer. One series filming there, The Holiday Shift (tagline: “Come one, come mall”), had stuffed the place with Christmas trees and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail It Ends with Us CLASSIFICATION: PG; 130 MINUTES Directed by Justin Baldoni Written by Christy Hall, based on the novel by [...]

Gimmicky? A bit. Cohesive? Not really. Globe staff puzzle over what to make of pandemic novel Fourteen Days, which Margaret Atwood edited with Douglas Preston, What happens when you ask 36 authors to write a novel together? The book, Fourteen Days , a project of the Authors Guild published in February – and edited by [...]