Articles by James Keast

Seven Pounds

Gabriele Muccino

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2008

Will Smith teams again with The Pursuit of Happyness director Muccino for this weeper about a distraught I.R.S. agent who offers random act...

Burn After Reading

Joel and Ethan Coen

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2008

In Hollywood terms, Burn After Reading is an unusual hybrid, a comic tragedy starring megastars acting like idiots in an ensemble cast that...

Hamlet 2

Andrew Fleming

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2008

There's a very funny movie within writer/director Andrew Fleming's high school drama program effort Hamlet 2, which stars Steve Coogan (Tro...

The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2008

Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight - the game-changing superhero movie that busted box office records and brought both a realism and heig...

Lost Season 4: The Extended Experience

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2008

Television's most confusion, convoluted and - for those sucked into its mysteries - compelling TV show has had some low points in its secon...

Neil Young / Wilco

Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON December 4

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2008

This ain't no Greendale. Eschewing his occasional tendency toward wilful acts of obscurity or experimentation of the conceptual kind, Neil...

Seán Cullen

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2008

Seán Cullen might be more successful if he was easier to pigeonhole — as a comedian, actor, writer, TV personality, amateur hockey player o...

Vertigo Special Edition

Alfred Hitchcock

PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2008

The career of Alfred Hitchcock — arguable film history’s greatest director to date — has been so prolific and diverse that it lends itself...