We talk to the former doctor turned comedic character actor Ken Jeong about reprising his role as the wildman Chow for Todd Phillips' The Hangover Part III, why he's nothing like the characters he plays, why he's grateful to Judd Apatow, Michael Bay, and his time on Community, and his chemistry to his co-stars.
As Morgan White's documentary The Rep - which looks at the lifespan of the Toronto Underground Cinema, the people who ran it, and the current state of reparatory cinema in general - gets set for it's Toronto premiere this Wednesday night, we sit down with the director to talk about how the film evolved from a web series, his travels to other theatres, and how hard it was to let the film go when he stopped filming and things at the Underground started to get worse
Penn Badgley gives a great performance as a conflicted Jeff Buckley struggling to come to terms with his father Tim's legacy in the slice-of-life biopic Greetings from Tim Buckley, but the film is so threadbare and navel gazing that it's hard to care about anything that happens.
In the ugly, misanthropic, and dreadfully out of touch The We and The I, Michel Gondry thinks he's showcasing the pitfalls of being an NYC teenager, but he's really showcasing reasons why people hate teenagers.
Despite being somewhat repetitive, the documentary Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children sheds light on the efforts of Retired Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire's efforts to stop the use of child soldiers in Africa.
Despite a great lead performance from Riz Ahmed, the decade spanning terrorism thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist sacrifices a genuinely interesting character study for rote predictability.
The Scotish whisky heist comedy-drama The Angels' Share suffers from feeling like three completely different movies crammed into one, and only one of which is compelling.
While it might adhere too slavishly to mob movie conventions at times, The Iceman boasts an excellent leading performance from the always great Michael Shannon that makes it worth watching.
Mud feels like a classical young adult novel from the 80s or 90s brought to life with all of the life lessons intact, and it's mostly a positive thing.
In the likeable and affectionate, but extremely scattershot fashion documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s, director Matthew Miele goes behind the scenes and behind the history of one of the most iconic shopping destinations in New York City.
A step above J.J. Abrams first outing with the franchise, Star Trek Into Darkness delivers a fun story, a great villain, and an ending that will be analyzed and pondered over by fans of the series for quite some time.
Director J.J. Abrams and actors Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, and Karl Urban share their thoughts on working together on the long awaited sequel that aims to boldly go where no franchise film has gone before, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Rodney Ascher's look at close readings and potential conspiracy theories within Stanley Kubrick's The Shining shouldn't work, but it does perfectly if you're a finely attuned film geek.
The title Graceland should be taken as ironic, as there are very few saving graces among the characters that inhabit this dark story. Not for the light-hearted, it's a thriller that shocks in ways no Hollywood film could ever get away with.
The award winning Canadian drama Blackbird is a successful and thoughtful look at how one high schooler's possibly idle threats can get blown out of proportion in our digital age with heavy consequences.
