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'You cannot game it': Celine Song unpacks algorithm-era love with ‘The Materialists’

'You cannot game it': Celine Song unpacks algorithm-era love with ‘The Materialists’

For Celine Song, some things in life can’t be strategized; they must play out on their own terms.
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Movie Review: Can a rom-com be honest about money? Celine Song’s smart ‘Materialists’ gives it a go

Movie Review: Can a rom-com be honest about money? Celine Song’s smart ‘Materialists’ gives it a go

The problem with so many rom-coms — one of the problems, anyway — is how often we’re asked to conveniently dismiss our knowledge of life’s realities. Particularly economic ones.
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Canada's Dean DeBlois swore-off live-action remakes, until 'How to Train Your Dragon'

Canada's Dean DeBlois swore-off live-action remakes, until 'How to Train Your Dragon'

TORONTO — “How to Train Your Dragon” director Dean DeBlois made it clear years ago he was no fan of Hollywood's appetite for live-action remakes of animated films. Those words are now being thrown back at the Aylmer, Que.
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Fewer Quebecers head to movies, but market share of Quebec films rises

Fewer Quebecers head to movies, but market share of Quebec films rises

MONTREAL — There were fewer visits to Quebec movie theatres in 2024, bucking an upward trend that had seen the number of trips to the cinema grow steadily since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dakota Johnson and Celine Song on love, dating and ‘Materialists’

Dakota Johnson and Celine Song on love, dating and ‘Materialists’

Before Celine Song was an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, she was a playwright in New York who needed day jobs to pay rent. That’s how she found herself as a professional matchmaker.
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Cineplex reports $55.3M May box office revenue up from $33.9M a year ago

Cineplex reports $55.3M May box office revenue up from $33.9M a year ago

TORONTO — Movie theatre company Cineplex Inc. reported its May box office report rose compared with a year ago helped by Final Destination: Bloodlines, Lilo & Stitch, and Mission: Impossible – the Final Reckoning.
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Movie Review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ might have just redeemed the live-action adaptation

Movie Review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ might have just redeemed the live-action adaptation

Ever wanted to soar through the skies on the back of a friendly dragon? The new “How to Train Your Dragon” may be the ticket, from a decidedly safer, though possibly still vertigo-inducing, distance.
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Kim Novak to receive Venice Film Festival’s lifetime achievement honor

Kim Novak to receive Venice Film Festival’s lifetime achievement honor

Kim Novak, the glamorous and fiercely independent star of one of the greatest films ever made, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival this fall.
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ cruises to No. 1 again; John Wick spinoff ‘Ballerina’ dances to 2nd place

‘Lilo & Stitch’ cruises to No. 1 again; John Wick spinoff ‘Ballerina’ dances to 2nd place

In the box office showdown between a deadly assassin and a chaotic CG alien, “Lilo & Stitch” still had the edge.
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David Attenborough’s 'Ocean' is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea

David Attenborough’s 'Ocean' is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea

NICE, France (AP) — An ominous chain unspools through the water. Then comes chaos. A churning cloud of mud erupts as a net plows the seafloor, wrenching rays, fish and a squid from their home in a violent swirl of destruction.
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