Judi Dench has spent her life surrounded by books and trees, but now, at age 91, she can’t read and struggles to make out the foliage. She recently admitted that due to age-related macular degeneration, she won’t be acting in any more plays or films – and in her new book, Is It Too Late…

November is full of highly anticipated new shows, as well as an abundance of returning favourites. Clear your schedule, there’s a lot of binge-watching in store.  Harmony Gardens We’re charmed by this low-fi sitcom starring real-life Canadian comedy couple Debra McGrath (Getting Along Famously) and Colin Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), set in gracious…

It’s 9 a.m., during the Toronto International Film Festival, and John Turturro is milling around a hotel meeting room, pastry and coffee in hand. And that’s when it happens. The quintessential and unmistakable New York actor – veteran of Spike Lee and Coen brothers’ films – is overtaken by the biggest, widest, longest yawn I’ve…

Keanu Reeves is not in the new Matthew Perry documentary on Netflix, but halfway through watching it, I couldn’t help but think of him and of that regrettable situation with Perry’s 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. In it, Perry was musing about young movie stars who died of substance abuse problems,…

He was the “bodyguard” who was actually a Fulbright scholar; the dishy blonde “boytoy” who also happened to be a chemical engineer and something of a philosopher king. Dolph Lundgren has spent decades defying expectations and bridging different worlds. Emerging from his homeland of Sweden, he later erupted as one of the biggest action stars…

The legendary film critic Roger Ebert once said, "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short." Fortunately Musk, which clocks in at three hours and 52 minutes plus a 10-minute intermission, falls on the good side of that equation. Its duration beats Lawrence of Arabia by six minutes and The…