Canada's two Oscar contenders lead the field of nominees for the country's film awards in March. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief TORONTO — ­Look for a smackdown between French- and ...

“Barney’s Version” nabbed 11 Genie awards nominations, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced Wednesday at simultaneous media conferences in Montreal and Toronto. It’s closely ...

This impeccably cast confessional, with a pitch-perfect Paul Giamatti leading the way, nimbly traverses the four decades in its lead character's eventful life with considerable exuberance, visual ...

Some people like movies where stuff happens. But some of us prefer movies that focus on the people the stuff happens to. Movies like "Barney's Version," a reelin'-in-the-years chronicle of the ...

Canadian producer Robert Lantos was smart to world premiere the long-gestating Barney’s Version at the Venice Film Festival instead of home-town Toronto; the book sold over over 700,000 copies in ...

Stories with jerks as protagonists can be challenging for an audience, but at least you should be able to count on a certain consistency to the jerkiness ... Stories with jerks as protagonists can be ...

The late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, best known south of the border for the film version of his 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in ...

"Barney's Version" star Paul Giamatti is the first to acknowledge that he isn't a typical Hollywood leading man. He may not look like his co-star Scott Speedman, but he's still managed to rack up an ...