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Welcome to the 2008 Garland Awards! This year marks the 10th anniversary of those awards, the 10th year the critics of Back Stage West have voted on the best of Southland theatre.
'lt;i'gt;Gone Baby Gone'lt;/i'gt; is a good time-passer, well-acted and street-lingo-zingy, not overloaded with phony action set-pieces. But the resolution is strange and mushy, and the theme of children-in-peril isn't as pointed and moving as it was in 'lt;i'gt;Mystic River'lt;/i'gt;. But it's a cut above most movies like this.
One of the world's greatest film directors, a protean moviemaker and a truly supreme visual stylist, was the Russian genius Sergei Paradjanov. His career was cut short by censorship and a prison term, but he still produced a handful of works of extraordinary originality and immense artistry. One can mourn all the films he didn't make -- as well as his cruel and stupid mistreatment by the Soviet
The Juno Awards can help bring new talent to the attention of the Canadian masses, but it was the old-time Can-con juggernauts that were the focus at this morning's nomination announcement in Toronto, with Celine Dion leading the pack in nominations and legend Anne Murray scoring Juno notice.
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