March 1, 2003 Nothing is black and white, Two Towers shows

Some have criticized the Lord of the Rings trilogy and its screen adaptation for claiming to be an adult myth and a portrayal of real life, while displaying a glaring absence of women. All the main characters, male warriors to be...

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September 1, 2002 Movie remakes capitalize on former hits

Summer is the time when Hollywood rolls out its blockbusters: market-oriented, genre films that exploit a proven fad or formula for one purpose: a big profit. Attempts to please the largest possible audience make most summer...

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June 1, 2002 A simple story of good versus evil

OK: so it's a movie based on a comic book-a good-verses-evil morality tale. And it's a big Hollywood picture, an expensive blockbuster that's pulling in record-setting audiences at suburban multiplexes all over North America. ...

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April 1, 2002 Bible stories endless source of drama and (unintended) comedy

AH, EASTER - bunnies, lilies, chocolate eggs and Bible movies on TV. Every spring, television marks the Resurrection (and Passover, we might note) by scheduling films that pay appropriate reverence to the season, unless you...

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April 1, 2002 Costa-Gavras probes role of church in Holocaust

Paris Amen, a much awaited film by Constantin Costa-Gavras that raises controversial questions about the church's role during the Holocaust, opened in cinemas in France in late February, having already created a public stir....

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March 1, 2002 Tolkien movie a delight

This movie is a delight to see and to see again. The New Zealand landscape is breathtaking and the computer-generated fantasy places and monster hordes are awesome. Much of what a good flick should have in terms of entertainment...

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April 1, 2001 New video chronicles longing for pilgrimage

And smale fowles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open ye,(So pricketh hem nature in hir corages),Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.Geoffrey Chaucer,The Canterbury Tales The ancient human desire to seek God...

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February 1, 2001 Chocolat

DIRECTOR Lasse Hallstrom has followed up last year's success of The Cider House Rules with an adaptation of Joanne Harris's novel Chocolat. With an all- star cast, headed by Juliette Binoche and Judi Dench, Hallstrom again proves...

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December 1, 2000 Movies honour boys' spirit

THERE'S something inspiring about how people respond to life's challenges and it's particularly moving if the person who responds is a child. Billy Elliot and Pay it Forward tell the stories of two young men who overcome...

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November 1, 2000 A rise to superstardom in media-obsessed times

WHEN DENYS Arcand introduced his film Stardom to the audience at the Vancouver International Film Festival, he described it as a light subject with very serious overtones. It is a comedy, but a dark and ribald one. Newcomer...

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