William Hurt

The Host Review

The Host is entertaining, but in all the wrong ways, and it’s even more ludicrous and slapdash than any of the films that came out of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. It’s the kind of film of such staggering, unintentional camp that it begs out for Rocky Horror styled catcalling and drinking games to arise from it.

CONTEST: See THE HOST Across Canada!

Enter for a chance to win one of five pairs of passes to see an advance screening of The Host (from Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer) in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver on Thursday, March 28th courtesy of Dork Shelf and eOne Films.

The New Old: Theatre/Absurd

In our archival home entertainment column for this week, we look at forms of grand theatre and the theatre of the somewhat absurd, as Phil Brown looks at Ken Russell's Altered States and takes a look at some classic Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare with Twelfth Night and the 80s cheeseball classic No Holds Barred.