Jay Baruchel

As a kid in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, I’d go ice skating at the House of Ice in Mira Mesa. One day I saw a poster for an upcoming hockey game there. My brother and I went, and had a blast. Mostly because a guy with a name like “...

Among the films in the lineup of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival are "On the Road," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Cosmopolis" and "7 Days in Havana."...

 After a career spent playing what he calls “jackasses,” Seann William Scott has no idea why he was the filmmakers' choice to star as a nice guy in “Goon.” Even if that nice guy, based on real-life minor league hockey player Doug...

*** (out of four) “Goon” pulls off a trick even more impressive than asking average Americans to care about minor league Canadian hockey. Featuring many, many scenes of fist-to-face aggression, the movie not only makes you accept the...

Shark movies have been suffering under comparisons to "Jaws" for more than 35 years, and with good reason: Steven Spielberg's 1975 waterborne frightfest remains a classic. "Dark Tide," directed with hopelessly flagging energy by John Stockwell, barely...

THE FILMS: While we patiently wait for a proper sequel to DreamWorks’ excellent and completely unexpected smash hit HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, the dragon-loving gang from Berk have come back to give us a little holiday treat in the form of two new...

Orlando’s Global Peace Film Festival is in its eighth year. So it’s fitting that this annual showcase of films about activism and activists, working for peace, a greener planet and the like should expand to eight venues. Between Tuesday and...

There were, at one time, going to be two brawling hockey movies more or less in production at the same time. One was going to be a Kevin Smith version of the Warren Zevon tune “Hit Somebody,” which came to nothing. “Goon” is...

Strange things happen in a Montreal neighborhood, circa 1995, in this 2010 melodrama. A serial killer has apartment building residents on edge, especially once the tenants start suspecting one another of having very active roles in the murders. Jay...

As we race toward the Global Peace Film Festival, see things early in prep for interviews and plow through recent BluRays that have crossed my desk, it's been a “What do you HAVE to watch NEXT?” weekend in our house. That's the way my wife has...

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Magnet Releasing, not one of the bigger studios, has nabbed the rights to “Goon,” one of the two competing hockey comedies in the “Slapshot” vein that were due to come out this fall. Seann William Scott stars in it, with Jay...