Newfoundland and Labrador documentary filmmaker Jamie Miller is helping bring a unique part of her province’s popular culture to the screen. “In our generation, we grew up turning on our news station in the middle of the night and seeing just bonkers psychedelia content,” she said of her upbringing in St. John’s watching NTV, the local television network … Read more
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee who ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. Spurlock died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer, according to a statement issued Friday by his family. “It was a sad day, as we said … Read more
The Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury selection and the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or — the festival’s most prestigious prize — for Meryl Streep as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off its 77th edition. But along with buzzy films from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, to Kevin Costner’s … Read more
