Movies

• Interview – Defendor’s Peter Stebbings and Nicholas Tabarrok Rachel Fox talks to the director and producer of Defendor about wrangling Mr. Woody Harrelson for, wtf?, a Canadian superhero movie.

• Interview – Richard Crouse Pt II Remember the time Kris Kristofferson defended Sinead O’Connor against 30,000 angry Americans? What about the nude pictorial with Sarah Miles for The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea…

• Interview – Warren Sonoda Rachel Fox talks to the “King of Canadian Music Videos” about his movie with Samantha Bee, the ancient Hamilton vs. London feud, and Dave Foley’s penis. A Guttersnipe exclusive!

• The Fox Guide to Valentine’s Day Movies A list from Rachel Fox, who DOES NOT plan on ending up on the couch eating ice cream on Feb 14.

• Interview – Richard Crouse The Canada AM film critic trades Oscar quips with Rachel Fox in this no-holds-barred interview from the Victoria Film Festival.

• The 16th Victoria Film Festival Films – and footwear – are the focus of the ‘Cousin Oliver’ of the Canadian Film Festival circuit. In between gastronomic pursuits, Rachel Fox reports.

• Review – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Kids will love the slapstick antics, writes Adrian Mack, while parents are left to wonder, ‘Am I watching a kid’s movie or Vertigo on DMT?’

• Review – The White Ribbon The latest dark and broody flick from master of dark and broody Michael Haneke grabs reviewer Rachel Fox and doesn’t let go.

• Review – The Princess and the Frog Adrian Mack takes his kid to The Princess and the Frog and wonders, can Disney ever again replicate the artistic success of The Cat From Outer Space?

• TwitteReview – Avatar Haters beware—if you were ready for James Cameron to do a literal Titanic with his latest, you’re probably going to be disappointed. Critics and Twitterites love it.

• Whistler Film Festival – The End If a new crop of movies at this year’s Whistler Film Festival is any indication, Canadian film might finally be moving beyond the provincialism encouraged by government funding and the damn cold.

• Whistler Film Festival Days 3 & 4 Awards awarded, Woody Harrelson’s superhero movie Defendor, Sook-Yin Lee and free bacon are all part of this past weekend’s Whistler Film Festival. Rachel Fox dishes.

• Whistler Film Festival Day 2 Hugh Hefner, a rock ‘n’ roll vampire movie starring Iggy Pop and Jessica Pare, the best worst movie ever, and how to survive a film festival by Rachel ‘Gimp’ Fox.

• Whistler Film Festival Day 1 It’s Ivan Reitman’s festival—unless son Jason (’Up In the Air’, ‘Juno’) shows up. Also, on-site reporter Rachel Fox makes a Brady Bunch analogy.

• Review – Fantastic Mr. Fox ‘[Wes] Anderson has made a sophisticated children’s film that is faithful to his oeuvre,’ writes Rachel Fox of the director’s new animated movie Fantastic Mr. Fox.

• Interview – Collapse Director Chris Smith Adrian Mack talks to Chris Smith about Michael Ruppert, the complicated subject of the director’s frightening new documentary, Collapse.

• Review – 2012 A disaster movie in every sense of the word, 2012 destroys the Sistine Chapel, the White House, and the remains of John Cusack’s credibility.

• Review – The Damned United Rachel Fox gives a big thumb’s up to the new football (okay, ’soccer’) movie, thanks largely to Michael Sheen’s performance but also because the costume department so obviously raided her father’s closet.

• Lists – Horror Movies Also – guttersnipe’s guide to the best horror films of the 2000s, and Stephanie MacDonald’s top 10 horror of, like, ever.

• 10 Best Horror Films of the Century (So Far) We choose the scariest, creepiest and most downright thrilling films from the last decade. You argue why Shaun of the Dead should be included.

• Review – Where the Wild Things Are Rachel Fox on the children’s classic that comes with impossible-to-fill expectations.

• Review – It Might Get Loud A new documentary brings together the Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White. Adrian Mack reviews.

• Review – Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Hey kids, get ready for severe food shortages, worldwide resource wars and the collapse of civilization. That’s the message of this Columbia/Sony CGI flick currently in theatres.

• Review – Antichrist One of the most controversial films of the year might’ve been more effective if Willem Dafoe didn’t remind us of the Green Goblin…

• The Coen Brothers’ Five Greatest Moments Josh Rosenblatt picks his favourite Coen Bros. movie moments. Salma Hayek, if you’re reading this…

• Jack Kirby? Jack Kirby! We love comics as much as the next geek. But using a comic artist’s name, even one as famous as Jack Kirby’s, to sell a movie is something new…

• Review – Jennifer’s Body We regret to inform scary-movie fans that Jennifer’s Body does nothing to get the American horror film out of its slump.

• Review – Extract Mike Judge returns to the workplace with this sweet, but plot-tangled mess of a movie.

• Review – Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is about Nazis the way Raiders of the Lost Ark was—in fact, it’s really about the director’s love of movies.

• The Curse of Brad Pitt — a character actor in a leading man’s body A better stoner than Sean Penn? A more artful nut than Dustin Hoffman? A—gasp—talent capable of making a Guy Ritchie movie worth seeing? Indeed, writes Josh Rosenblatt.

• Review – Spread “So excruciatingly painful” she would’ve liked to have left after the first 30 minutes, Liz Stanton nonetheless finds the inner strength to share her thoughts.

• Review – District 9 Not just a race relations metaphor, the new SF movie with the cool bus ads also has “big, gross, awesome, alien stuff,” promises Kaitlin Fontana.

• Review – Funny People is it a a comedy, a romance, a bromance or just a showcase for new guttersnipe heartthrob Aubrey Plaza? The new Judd Apatow film does get a few things right, though an Eminem cameo isn’t one of them.

• Review – The Ugly Truth Liz Stanton loves her romantic comedies with plenty of romance and comedy, but The Ugly Truth doesn’t offer enough of either. But at least there are swears.

• Review – Brüno Despite picking some easy targets, i.e. Christians and Paula Abdul, Sacha Baron Cohen’s cock-friendly follow-up to Borat succeeds in showing up the ridiculousness of homophobia.

• Review – Revenge of the Fallen Shia LeBeouf designs a new t-shirt line for Urban Outfitters, Optimus Prime sounds like your grandpa and Spielberg is a bottom.

• You Watch It! You Watch It! Best Liz & Kate tell you the movies Shia LeBeouf designs a new t-shirt line for Urban Outfitters, Optimus Prime sounds like your grandpa and Spielberg is a bottom.

• Review – The Girlfriend Experience The star of Sasha Grey’s Anatomy keeps her clothes on (most of the time) in Steven Soderbergh’s latest. Audiences go, “meh.”

• List – 10 Couple-Friendly Chick Flicks Guttersnipe challenged Liz Stanton (bestlizandkate.com) to come up with 10 chick flicks even guys can enjoy. This is her list… what, Meet Joe Black but no How to Lose a Guy in 10 Dates or Don Juan deMarco?

• Review – Up This really is news—Adrian Mack likes, maybe loves, the new Pixar film Up. Don’t worry, though—the nihilist in him finds something to bitch about.