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David Lynch had a mind both beautiful and crazy

Remembering a director who turned nightmares into art.

Seeing Allred my festival fave

Without a doubt, my favourite film at the festival this year was Seeing Allred, a fast-paced doc about U.S. women’s rights attorney...

Sunny days at Sundance 2018

Park City, Utah -- I beg to differ with the cranky movie industry folks who left L.A.'s palm trees and their own well-lined palms to...

'We are all connected,' climate panel told

Park City, Utah — Introducing the New Climate panel convened for Sundance 2018, festival director John Cooper joked that the organization...

"The Devil We Know" dumps on DuPont

You may not know "the devil's piss," but it knows you.

Anote's Ark premieres in Park City

Park City, Utah — While the rest of the world either ignores climate change or frets about what might happen some day in the distant...

A taste of Toronto in Park City, Utah

Park City, Utah -- Toronto's film critics might be tickled to know that their just-published book, Our Words on Film, is now available...

The Game Changers extols virtues of veganism

Park City, Utah — Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos, whose 2009 Sundance doc The Cove changed forever how the world thinks...

Sundance 2018 opens

Park City, Utah -- The 34th edition of the Sundance Film Festival got off to its usual low-key start this afternoon with its usual press...

Photon phantasmagoric, but fails

Remember learning about the dual nature of light back in high school physics class? We had it drummed into us that light is, strangely,...

Movies I Can't Live Without

Toronto Star movie critic 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 has written a book about his 25 most-loved films, with highly personal reviews from "Apocalypse Now" to "The Wizard of Oz." Here's a sample of his review of "2001: A Space Odyssey," his all-time favourite:

"It was billed as The Ultimate Trip and the hyperbole was justified, then as now.

Stanley Kubrick's space opus still seems like the future, 56 years after its release and 23 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings ...." 🌓