Wilson: American Blowhard

Wilson

(USA, 94 min.)

Dir. Craig Johnson, Writ. Daniel Clowes

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Judy Greer, Isabella Amara, Cheryl Hines

Laura Dern as Pippi and Woody Harrelson as Wilson in Wilson.
Photo by Wilson Webb / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Wilson is a man from another era. He isn’t one for cell phones and he has an utter disdain for the Internet. Real communication, to Wilson, is that old-school person-to-person stuff. That’s too bad because Wilson really isn’t much of a people person.

The Claws Come Out

Catfight

(USA, 96 min.)

Written and directed by Onur Tukel

Starring: Sandra Oh, Anne Heche

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The spirit of Russ Meyer endures in Catfight. Sandra Oh and Anne Heche face off in the mother of all catfights in this utter bonkers black comedy from Onur Tukel. Catfight doesn’t offer buxom babe sexploitation in the vein of Faster, Pussycat, but this darkly funny girl-on-girl action nevertheless delivers a thrill by empowering women through violence. Catfight is both a guilty pleasure and a frisky social satire.

Canadian Screen Award Winners (In Progress)

Best Picture
★It's Only the End of the World

Best Director
★Xavier Dolan, It's Only the End of the World

Best Actress
★Tatiana Maslany, The Other Half

Best Actor
★Stephan James, Race

Best Supporting Actress
★Molly Parker, Weirdos (woohoo!)

Best Supporting Actor
★Vincent Cassel, It's Only the End of the World

Best Adapted Screenplay
★Xavier Dolan, It's Only the End of the World

Best Original Screenplay
★Daniel MacIvor, Weirdos

Best Cinematography
★André Turpin, It's Only the End of the World

Best Film Editing
★Richard Comeau, Two Lovers and a Bear 

Best Costumes
★Patricia McNeil, Nelly

Best Art Direction/Production Design
★Emanuel Frechette, Two Lovers and a Bear

Best Music - Original Score
★Born to Be Blue

Best Music - Original Song
★Born to Be Blue, "Could Have Been"

Best Documentary Feature
★I am the Blues

Best Editing in a Documentary Feature
★Dave De Carlo, Giants of Africa

Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature
★John Price, I am the Blues

Best Animated Short
★Blind Vaysha

Best Live Action Short
★Mutants

Best Documentary Short
★this river

Best Overall Sound
★Race

Best Sound Editing
★Race

Best Visual Effects
★Race

Best Make-up
★Maina Militza and Denis Vidal, It's Only the End of the World

Best First Feature
★Old Stone, Johnny Ma

Canadian Screen Awards Preview: Who Should Win on Sunday?

Xavier Dolan on the shoot of It's Only the End of the World
Shane Laerdière, Sons of Manual

And we’re back! After catching our breath following that doozy of a finale to the Oscars, it’s time for Canada’s own award show: the Canadian Screen Awards. The nickname of “The Candies” doesn’t seem to have caught on despite the noble effort to make the moniker stick, so we’ll just keep on running with The Screenies as an abbrev’d name.