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Description: Brian McKechnie is the founder and editor of Criticize This! Email him at brian@criticizethis.ca.

Posts by Brian McKechnie

Liam Hemsworth talks ‘The Hunger Games’
Posted on March 20, 2012 | No Comments
Based on Suzanne Collins’ bestselling book series, The Hunger Games is easily one of the most talked about movie events of the year, if not the last decade. For a...
New On DVD: March 20, 2012
Posted on March 20, 2012 | No Comments
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Blu-ray) Criticize This! Pick of the Week – David Fincher’s English adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is just as...
In Photos: Canadian premiere of ‘The Hunger Games’
Posted on March 19, 2012 | 3 Comments
After Daniel Radcliffe walked the red carpet at the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto for the premiere of The Woman in Black back in January, I thought I had seen the...
Movie Review: 21 Jump Street
Posted on March 16, 2012 | No Comments
As someone who grew up in the ‘80s addicted to the hit television series 21 Jump Street, I had a lot of reservations about a big screen version starring Jonah...
TIFF Happenings: March 16 – 22
Posted on March 16, 2012 | No Comments
The Toronto International Film Festival isn’t only about the big event in September. No, they have a home in Toronto (the TIFF Bell Lightbox) where they host regular movie-related events...
Learn how to draw the Lorax
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No Comments
With the kids on March Break this week we th0ught it was a good time to share this neat video Universal Pictures released demonstrating how to draw the character of...
New On DVD: March 13, 2012
Posted on March 13, 2012 | No Comments
The Descendants (Blu-ray) Criticize This! Pick of the Week - One of my favourite films of 2011, The Descendants tells the story of Hawaiian resident Matt King (George Clooney) after...
Watch This! ‘Chimpanzee’ featurette “See Chimps, Save Chimps”
Posted on March 13, 2012 | No Comments
To get us all excited and misty-eyed over Chimpanzee, DisneyNature’s latest nature documentary, the studio has released a great making-of featurette called See Chimps, Save Chimps. Check it out below...
Interview with director Craig Brewer about his ‘Footloose’ remake
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No Comments
When Craig Brewer’s critically-acclaimed Hustle & Flow hit screens in 2005, no one ever expected that one day his name would be attached to a remake of Kevin Bacon’s career-launching...
Watch This! Google Q&A with ‘John Carter’ director Andrew Stanton
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No Comments
With the release of the sci-fi adventure John Carter in theatres today [read our review], Google has posted their 50-minute Q&A with director Andrew Stanton. This is a solid piece...
Second trailer for ‘ParaNorman’ released
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No Comments
As soon as I heard ParaNorman was from the makers of Coraline, one of my favourite stop-motion animated films ever made, I was eager to see it. Now that the second...
TIFF Happenings: March 9 – 15
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No Comments
The Toronto International Film Festival isn’t only about the big event in September. No, they have a home in Toronto (the TIFF Bell Lightbox) where they host regular movie-related events...
Movie Review: John Carter
Posted on March 8, 2012 | 3 Comments
I left the John Carter screening a bit torn over whether I liked the film or not. On one hand, it was a breathtaking, visual masterpiece. On the other, the...
First image from ‘The Lone Ranger’ released
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No Comments
Yes folks, that is Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as John Reid (aka The Lone Ranger) from the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Gore Verbinski-directed film about the masked lawman. Looks...
‘Bully’ gets PG-rating in British Columbia
Posted on March 7, 2012 | No Comments
While the Weinstein’s are still fighting the MPAA over the R-rating Bully, a documentary that takes a closer look at high school bullying, got in the U.S., Canadian distributor Alliance Films is...