Atom Egoyan

Quebecois films continued their tradition of dominating the Genie Awards -- Canada's version of the Oscars -- when nominations for the 30th annual awardsfest were announced Monday. "Polytechnique" -- a black-and-white docudrama about a 1984 Montreal...

Three films open wide this weekend. I was, as you can see in earlier postings, mildly amused by Hot Tub Time Machine and How to Train Your Dragon, just a bit indifferent to Chloe, Atom Egoyan's latest. I'l link to Metacritic's more nuanced and thorough...

Atom Egoyan, Canada’s hit or miss or miss-by-a-mile cinema surveyor of the terrain of sex, finds mild chills and modest surprises with Chloe, a softcore variation on Fatal Attraction. The filmmaker noted for occasionally fetishizing young starlets in...

3-D is still a box office boon, but the digital technology can't create a hit. "How to Train a Dragon" put a damper on the momentum for 3-D created this year by blockbuster hits "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland" as......

• Laura Dern has inked a deal with HBO for her first regular TV gig. She and Mike White -- who directed her in "Year of the Dog" in 2007 -- have created "Enlightened" a half-hour single-camera comedy about "a self-destructive woman who has a...

THE tale of a superhero, a '70s drug dealer, or a plot to destroy the world it's not. Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which isn't really about a bear and does not feature a mountain, is the story of an elderly couple — a once-...

Natasha Richardson's fate looks grim. The British actress who suffered a ski accident Monday (March 16) just outside Montreal is believed to be "brain dead," according to unconfirmed reports. TMZ.com says that medics on board a private jet that flew her...

Please note! All dates subject to change without notice. "Limited" means limited release on that date. 5/01/09 Battle for Terra 3D (Roadside Attractions) This animated war movie is an ecological allegory about humans invading a peace-loving alien planet...

Eleventh-hour additions of Clint Eastwood's thriller "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, and Steven Soderbergh's double Che Guevara biopics, "The Argentine" and "Guerrilla," were among the big news delivered by festival general manager Thierry...

Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, is one of several high profile American films going for the Palme d'Or at next month's Cannes Film Festival. While the official Cannes lineup, which was announced on Wednesday, April 23, includes...

"Chloe" will be seeing stars. According to Variety, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried have signed on to lead the Atom Egoyan-directed movie. The film is an adaptation of the French 2003 thriller "Nathalie." In this version, Moore's...

TWO men were sitting on a scarred chairlift as it climbed a lower flank of Mt. Timpanogos, its towering 11,750-foot glacier providing a brown-green backdrop to their right. The bluffs off to their left arched down toward the wide, flat runway of the...