Chris Knight
National Post
Toronto, ON, Canada
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The movies paying $233,000/second for a trailer at this year's Super Bowl
The trailer for the latest Scream movie is already out, but expect the big day to include ads for Marvel, Fast X and more → Read More
The Oscar nominations are out and Canadian filmmakers star among them
Sarah Polley and James Cameron are up for awards, as are the documentary Navalvy and the animated film Turning Red. → Read More
‘I am not a human – but I am trying’: An interview with an AI chatbot
A columnist interviews artificial intelligence chatbot 'Daisy' and discovers a range of ethics, emotions and wizardry. → Read More
The best, the good and the ugly movies of 2022
Tom Cruise, Cate Blanchett star in some of 2022's best movies but Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson and Michael Bay had some stinkers → Read More
Artemis splash down a reminder: Apollo 10 lunar module keeps on trekking
Spacecraft that carried astronauts on the 'dress rehearsal' for the first moon landing was left in orbit around the sun, where it remains. → Read More
Planes, Trains and Automobiles, now with more Candy!
New DVD on film's 35th anniversary features more than an hour of recently rediscovered outtakes and deleted scenes → Read More
Film review: Devotion looks at a friendship forged among the clouds
Real-life aviators provide the subject matter for this Korean War era drama → Read More
Film review: Stay the Night is a modern-day Before Sunrise
So a recently fired NHL hockey player and an HR advisor walk into a downtown Toronto bar... → Read More
Write what you know, then make a movie about it
Established older filmmaker - and some newer young ones - are reaching back to childhood memories for inspiration → Read More
Film review: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is the real deal
Unlike a few other recent re-tellings of the 19th-century tale of a wooden boy, this one leans into the horror, the wonder and the beauty → Read More
Film review: Rosie throws misfits together and finds they fit
Montreal-set film adapted from director's earlier short of the same name → Read More
Film review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Powerful themes underpin this sequel to the 2018 original, not least the loss of Chadwick Boseman in the title role → Read More
Weird Al serves up the whole truth and everything but in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Daniel Radcliffe dons a curly wig, split-level moustache and large metal glasses to portray Weird Al in his early days as a song parodist. → Read More
Film review: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Parody biopic of parody musician Weird Al might just be the funniest film of the year → Read More
Film review: Vandits is Groundhog Day on Christmas Eve
Canadian heist comedy goes far on its cartoon energy → Read More
Film review: The Banshees of Inisherin is brilliant
Newest from Martin McDonagh is very funny and also very dark, so prepare to enjoy both sides → Read More
Film review: Drinkwater is a distinctly Canadian '80s throwback
Based on a student film from 40 years ago, it also knows how to rock out → Read More
Film review: Prey for the Devil. Heaven help us
Even Virginia Madsen can't save this horror, which is very scary - just not very good → Read More
Film review: Call Jane is an oddity, the feel-good abortion movie
Director Phyllis Nagy tries to balance humour and drama, but the result is a little too sanitized → Read More
How the writer and director of The Good Nurse learned to appreciate true crime
Neither Krysty Wilson-Cairns nor Tobias Lindholm thought they were interested, but the story was too good to ignore → Read More