Movie

How Celine Song’s Past Lives became the surprise indie hit of the year

The semi-autobiographical Canadian film is earning huge Oscar buzz

Downton Abbey is back, supersized for the big screen

Fans of the hugely popular show can now plunge into the movie, which offers all of the series’ visual and narrative treats

Diana biopic flames out at box office

Patricia Treble on an awful mess and an epic failure

‘Diana’ the film: How bad could it be?

Our royal watcher on a truly horrid film about the Windsor clan

‘The Help’: A feel-good flick that sugar-coats segregation

A movie about the Jim Crow laws shouldn’t be this cute

REVIEW: Brit humour meets Saturday Night Live in ‘Paul’

Film critic Brian D. Johnson is mildly amused

Harry Potter and the trial by fire

The Wyrd case of a Winnipeg folksinger suing a lawyer who sued two judges, all over a tiny copyright issue

Hollywood’s big on psycho soldiers

Ramrod military men with impulse-control issues may be rare in real life but not onscreen

I commented last week that MacGyver has unexpectedly become a major pop-culture icon; this week, legendary producer/huckster Dino De Laurentiis and his daughter Raffaella helpfully confirmed my statement by announcing that they’re making MacGyver into a feature film.