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Restaurant tale The Bear grabbed three of the four Emmy Awards for comedy acting on Sunday, yielding only to Jean Smart who claimed her third trophy for her starring role as an ambitious stand-up comic on Hacks. Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach of The Bear won their second straight Emmys for comedy actor and…
The Life of Chuck, an offbeat film by writer-director Mike Flanagan, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The sci-fi drama is based on the 2020 Stephen King novella and sees Tom Hiddleston as one of the actors playing the central character, accountant Charles “Chuck” Krantz. The audience-voted prize, considered an Oscar bellwether, was announced…
A record-breaking four Manitoba-produced features were given a place at the table at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, but only three are actually set in Winnipeg. Rumours, a satire from Winnipeggers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, is set in Germany and was filmed in Hungary. Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language is set in Winnipeg, but an…
The province of Manitoba is extraordinarily well represented this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Officially, the province lays claim to seven films at the festival, which opened Thursday: four features and three shorts, all with Manitoba connections. Never before in the 49-year history of the festival have so many Manitoba-made films been presented. Bear…
Premier Danielle Smith realizes her United Conservatives have an urban problem, having lost every seat in Edmonton last election and a majority of ridings in Calgary to the NDP. “Why do people become socialist when they move to Calgary and Edmonton? I just don’t get it,” she quipped at a UCP town hall earlier this…
