Are Canadians up for watching The American Revolution? Ken Burns latest docuseries, is a six-part, 12-hour, deep dive into a long, bloody birth of a nation. Co-directed by frequent collaborator Sarah Botstein (The Vietnam War; Jazz), it sticks to the immersive style of storytelling Burns has mastered over decades of documentary filmmaking. With no actual
If you want to see two very different documentaries about comedians in their sixties, watch Marc Maron’s Are We Good? right after watching Eddie Murphy in Being Eddie. Maron is the one not living in a 100-room mansion. He’s in a modest house, doing his own laundry, baking a pie, changing a tire, heading out
Hard on the heels of the excellent documentary John Candy: I Like Me comes another moving film about comedy performers. The first was co-executive produced by Candy’s two adult children. This one is directed by a famous son, Ben Stiller. His film, Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, premieres Friday October 24 on AppleTV. Now,
The leaves have changed colour, the mornings are cool and getting cooler. That can only mean one thing – the new TV season is here! Oh, and autumn. Network TV, or what’s left of it, has kicked off its new season, not that anyone has noticed. Network TV (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox) seems to
If you grew up watching SCTV, or John Hughes films such as “Uncle Buck” and “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” and especially if you grew up in Canada, John Candy is part of your family. Thirty-one years after his death in 1994 at 43, he’s still your Uncle Buck, the guy who makes you laugh the most,
For any of us who covered Charlie Sheen’s dark “Tiger Blood” days (2010-11), the prospect of re-living it can seem anything but “winning.” As the former Two and a Half Men star himself says towards the end of the two-part, three hour Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, the whole world these days is a bit
I sinned when I was a high school student in Toronto. I did not see Godspell, the musical. For my penance I’ve regretted it ever since. Who misses out on seeing Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, Jayne Eastwood and later Dave Thomas getting baptised into showbiz? Not to mention hear
I grew up with the classic Match Game daytime series, the one Gene Rayburn hosted with that telescoping mic. It featured Bret Summers, Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson, all served on a bed of orange shag carpeting. A decade ago a revival featured Alec Baldwin as host, complete with that goofy antenna mic. The