Hagiographic Michael Jackson biopic is bad, it’s bad, you know it (really, really bad) What could have been an insightful portrait has been reduced to a supersized music video slash concert doc

Jaafar Jackson is unnervingly great, but MICHAEL — which basically ends with the King of Pop dying on the way back to his home planet — is bad, it’s bad, you know it (really, really bad). www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

“For sale: private jet, never flown.” Suck it, Hemingway

Most intriguing/promising things at #CinemaCon:
-First 7 mins of DUNE: PART THREE
-ODYSSEY extended look
-MBJ's THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
-Na Hong-jin's HOPE
-Jeremy Strong's Zuckerberg
-BEEKEEPER 2 mania
-Yeah, I'll bite on DOOMSDAY ... with maximum skepticism/weariness

New DISCLOSURE DAY trailer clears up a few things (the croaking, the bathed-in-light animals) while introducing a whole bunch of other eye-popping elements (including a look at the aliens, of which there seem to be many species?). Any way, it has the juice. #CinemaCon

At the #CinemaCon trailer launch for AS DEEP AS THE GRAVE (aka the "AI Val Kilmer film"). Asked if the movie features "a Val Kilmer performance," director Coerte Voorhees says, "Kilmer influenced this performance, that's best way to describe it." It was a *deeply* upsetting experience.

Bland and repetitive, Lorne Michaels documentary will have you praying for Sunday morning Though it features some the funniest people alive, Neville’s doc is humourless and inessential

LORNE, the 2025 biography written by Susan Morrison, is a deeply researched and wonderfully insightful portrait of the SNL icon. LORNE, this week's new documentary by Morgan Neville about the same subject, is entirely surface-level and pointless. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

First seven minutes of DUNE: PART THREE features Stilgar leading his chanting warriors onto a rainy planet, to devastation. Played like an intergalactic SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. You felt it in your bones. Hate judging a film based on a few minutes, but “Lisan al-Gaib.” #CinemaCon

Got my hands on the hottest unofficial swag of #CinemaCon

Meet Canada’s Devon Bostick, the boyfriend material at the heart of Mile End Kicks The Toronto actor hasn’t been in all that many Canadian films, but he’s hoping that will change

“To me, he’s Billy Crystal and Seth Cohen and Tom Hanks all in one”: Meet Devon Bostick, the boyfriend material at the heart of MILE END KICKS. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

MILE END KICKS (Levack, 2025)

Lee Cronin’s Nirvanna the Band the Show the Mummy

Ha, jinx bsky.app/profile/hert...

The only five words a man wants to hear

Well this sounds … depressing: On June 5, Hot Docs will host Cinema Shift, “Canada’s First Curated AI Narrative Film Festival,” with prizes for films “with AI-generated or AI-directed visual, audio, or other elements comprising majority of final work,” and a jury including Ann Marie Fleming (!).

Elbows Up at the box office: How five new Canadian films are defying expectations This National Canadian Film Day, meet the big-screen success stories rewriting the rules of homegrown cinema

Ahead of #CanFilmDay, meet the five new Canadian box-office success stories rewriting the rules of homegrown cinema. (It's not just NIRVANNA!) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Vancouver Island horror movie Hunting Matthew Nichols aims to make indie film history Markian Tarasiuk’s feature directorial debut is taking an unusual route to reach audiences

What happens when you self-distribute a low-budget Canadian horror movie absent any name-brand talent or Markiplier-sized following onto more than 1,000 screens in North America? The B.C.-based team behind HUNTING MATTHEW NICHOLS is about to find out. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Exit 8 gets lost in horror-movie maze, but Faces of Death proves the killer genre is alive and well This weekend offers two new films to toss into the crimson-coloured waters

Daniel Goldhaber's FACES OF DEATH stares down Hollywood's obsession with dumpster-diving IP with thrilling, unrelenting purpose. Bound to be one of the most misunderstood films of the year. (Can't say the same about this week's other horror release, EXIT 8.) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Frank Sinatra has a cold … so I asked Claude for his answers

Mackenyu in Resonance - Esquire Singapore In an unprecedented interview for both parties, we call into the abyss to hear what comes back about the resonance of Mackenyu.

“Harnessing our creative license, we pulled his verbatim from previous interviews and fed them through an AI programme to formulate new responses.”: Burn this Esquire story to the ground esquiresg.com/mackenyu-one...

Going from HOPPERS to SUPER MARIO GALAXY is the children’s movie equivalent of going from popcorn with real butter to lead-infused dino nuggets.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is an empty void that assumes the worst of children Rest assured that the story is as nonsensical as it is disposable, a cocktail-napkin of an idea brought to digital life

I lost my damn mind while watching the empty void that is THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya face death till they part in the awkward comedy The Drama Director Kristoffer Borgli’s conceit deserves to be shot down with a bazooka, given how faux-incendiary it ends up being

THE DRAMA: To borrow vernacular of its characters, the vibes are off in this supersized CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM ep. Pattinson aces the Larry role, but it's thin gruel. There is also one gag I'm surprised A24 didn't hurriedly cut after Borgli's essay resurfaced. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Why we’re blowing a generational moment for Canadian culture We’re checking the origins of our groceries, but where’s the love for the sector that truly defines who we are?

Every time I see a standing ovation for Carney at TIFF, on a red carpet, or on stage giving Joni an award, I think of this prescient piece from @theglobeandmail.com's film editor @hertzbarry.bsky.social. The arts’ curtain of applause for the man who neglects them in material terms: is wild.

Due to a mechanical issue, Michael Rousseau’s career has been cancelled. He is searching for rebooking options for up to three days after his cancelled career.

Canadian conservatives who have never had a thought one micro-inch left of Harper sure are upset about these NDP results. Huh.

There’s no reason the Canadian Screen Awards can’t be an Oscars precursor similar to the BAFTAs etc. The seasonal television calendar has been broken in a way that the film sector’s has not, so holding the CSAs on the cusp of summer doesn’t make any marketing sense.

Canadian fans of Gerard Butler, our time has finally come: GREENLAND 2, which bypassed Canadian theatres entirely earlier this year, arrives on Prime Video Canada April 24.

Canadian Daniel Roher’s The AI Doc uneasily balances tech cheer and apocalyptic fear New doc was spurred by the director’s own existential anxiety about what kind of AI-dominated world he’s bringing his unborn son into

Sora to bother you, but THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST is cute and harmless until it's not. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

HEATED RIVALARY info from Canadian Screen Awards nominations:
-Connor Storrie ineligible; rules tweaked last year restricting CSAs to CDN "citizens or permanent residents"
-Eligible series needed to air between 09/01/24 and 11/15/25. HR premiered 11/28/25. Yet series got 18 nods

CBC’s North of North in heated rivalry with Crave hit at 2026 Canadian Screen Awards On film side, post-apocalyptic drama 40 Acres leads nominations, followed closely by Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

NEW: NORTH OF NORTH leads 2026 Canadian Screen Award nominations with 20 nods over 18 for HEATED RIVALRY (which wasn’t initially eligible). On film side, 40 ACRES leads w/ 10 noms, followed by NIRVANNA, FOLLIES, and HONEY BUNCH with 8 each. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...