Sundance Film Festival | Night Vision

"A Thousand and One" takes motherhood to extremes

Sundance champ depicts family life on the edge in changing NYC.

Time to find the winter boots -- again!

How is it possible that it has been nearly a year since we made the annual trek to Park City, Utah, in order to attend my favourite film...

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...

This is Home: A Refugee Story

Park City, Utah — The Sundance program log line for This is Home: A Refugee Story, in the World Documentary Competition at this year’s...

"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...

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 ...." 🌓