The Toronto International Film Festival is soldiering on with plans for its 48th edition, Sept. 7-17, despite ongoing strikes by Hollywood actors and writers that threaten to prevent many…
The great joke of “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig’s winking satire of existential angst and patriarchal politics, is that plasticity represents perfection while humanity is its abhorrent…
As a cultural force, “Barbie” has reached fever pitch. Greta Gerwig’s film follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling), who dance, surf and suntan in the seemingly perfect world…
The three movies Greta Gerwig has made since she added writer/director to her stellar resumé six years ago are “Lady Bird,” “Little Women” and now “Barbie.”Each one addresses a different…
When I was still in single digits back in 1961, my best friend was named Barbara Millicent Roberts. You’re acquainted with her by her nickname: Barbie.Mattel introduced Barbie, “the…
‘Joy Ride’ is an R-rated comedy about four Asian-Americans in their 20s taking a ridiculously chaotic trip through Asia, in theatres now. It’s a hilarious caper that’s next-level raunchy,…
Back in the late 1990s, when “Mission: Impossible” movies were fresh, and viewers of the original 1960s TV series still considered themselves young, Billy Crystal lampooned the insane…
The “Mission: Impossible” franchise is one of life’s greatest goofy pleasures. The seventh movie, “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” — one of the most anticipated movies of…
Jean-Luc Godard once famously opined that the only things you needed to make a movie were “a girl and a gun.” For his compatriot Jean Eustache, the gun was unnecessary. In his cinema,…
A part of downtown Toronto was transformed into Barbie Land on Wednesday night to promote the much anticipated new movie “Barbie.”Canadian actors Ryan Gosling and Simu Liu, who play…