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December 2002

December 20, 2002

Review: Adaptation. (dir. Spike Jonze, 2002)

Adaptation is about a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman who is struggling to adapt a book...

November 2002

November 15, 2002

Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (dir. Chris Columbus, 2002)

Harry Potter and his friends may soar through the air on broomsticks and dangle from...

August 2002

August 09, 2002

Crewson cracks typecasting

Wendy Crewson may not be a household name, but you've probably seen one of her...

July 2002

July 19, 2002

Review: K-19: The Widowmaker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2002)

It's been eight years since Harrison Ford last played Jack Ryan, but the spirit of...

June 2002

June 17, 2002

Review: Minority Report (dir. Steven Spielberg, 2002)

Steven Spielberg hasn't got Stanley Kubrick out of his system yet. In some respects, Minority...

June 14, 2002

Review: Windtalkers (dir. John Woo, 2002)

John Woo movies may be famous for their over-the-top action sequences, but what really makes...

May 2002

May 24, 2002

Review: Insomnia (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2002)

Memento, a smart, stylish neo-noir about a vengeful widower with memory problems that told its...

May 17, 2002

Review: About a Boy (dir. Chris & Paul Weitz, 2002)

Every story worth telling is ultimately about a girl, says Peter Parker in Spider-Man, but...

March 2002

March 01, 2002

Interview: Barry Pepper (We Were Soldiers, 2002)

Barry Pepper is going back to the battlefield. The 32-year-old actor, who grew up in...

January 2002

January 20, 2002

Review: Black Hawk Down (dir. Ridley Scott, 2001)

The folks who brought you Pearl Harbor are now bringing you Black Hawk Down, and...

December 2001

December 25, 2001

Review: Kate & Leopold (dir. James Mangold, 2001)

In her latest romantic comedy Kate & Leopold, Meg Ryan plays Kate McKay, a driven...

December 10, 2001

Review: Vanilla Sky (dir. Cameron Crowe, 2001)

Is life but a dream? Several recent movies have raised that question, and while it's...

November 2001

November 16, 2001

Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (dir. Chris Columbus, 2001)

If there is one thing the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone...

September 2001

September 26, 2001

Review: Ten Commandments documentary series (dir. various, 2001)

Forget Charlton Heston. And for that matter, forget Krzysztof Kieslowski, too. One of the Vancouver...

August 2001

August 03, 2001

Review: Apocalypse Now Redux (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979/2001)

In recent years, audiences have paid good money to see new, expanded versions of classic...

July 2001

July 20, 2001

Review: Jurassic Park III (dir. Joe Johnston, 2001)

There are any number of reasons to expect the worst from Jurassic Park III. It's...

June 2001

June 08, 2001

Review: Evolution (dir. Ivan Reitman, 2001)

It’s clear from the trailers and posters for Evolution that director Ivan Reitman wanted to...

April 2001

April 29, 2001

Review: The Mummy Returns (dir. Stephen Sommers, 2001)

The Mummy, a tongue-in-cheek, late-1990s remake of a 1930s classic, wasn’t a great movie, but...

April 25, 2001

Rowling quickies are reasonable fix for Potter junkies

Quidditch Through the Ages / Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them J.K. Rowling Raincoast...

March 2001

March 16, 2001

Review: Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2000)

Memento is a gimmicky movie, but in the best possible sense of the word. The...

March 16, 2001

Review: Enemy at the Gates (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud, 2001)

These days, war movies waste no time plunging the viewer into the miserable, savage, bloody...

February 2001

February 09, 2001

Review: Hannibal (dir. Ridley Scott, 2001)

It's been almost ten years to the day since The Silence of the Lambs came...

November 2000

November 22, 2000

Review: Unbreakable (dir. M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)

Unbreakable has a lot in common with The Sixth Sense, the surprise spook-story hit that...

September 2000

September 22, 2000

Review: The Exorcist: The Version You’ve Never Seen (dir. William Friedkin, 1973/2000)

The Exorcist shocked, startled, and sickened audiences when it first came out in 1973, and...

September 15, 2000

Review: Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe, 2000)

Cameron Crowe is adept at making popular films that resonate on deep personal and emotional...

August 2000

August 04, 2000

Review: Chuck & Buck (dir. Miguel Arteta, 2000)

The title indicates this is a story about two friends, but Chuck & Buck is...

June 2000

June 27, 2000

Review: The Patriot (dir. Roland Emmerich, 2000)

The Patriot pretends to be an historical epic, but it is, in truth, a B-grade...

May 2000

May 24, 2000

Review: Mission: Impossible II (dir. John Woo, 2000)

There comes a moment in Mission: Impossible II when Ethan Hunt, the daredevil superspy played...

May 05, 2000

Review: Gladiator (dir. Ridley Scott, 2000)

People may mock the pieties of ancient biblical epics, but when I was a lad,...

April 2000

April 28, 2000

Review: Frequency (dir. Gregory Hoblit, 2000)

"The future is listening," say the ads, but Frequency -- an imaginative but ultimately convoluted...