-So what’s going on, James? They say you’re fin­ished. ‑And what do you think? ‑I think you’re just get­ting start­ed. Indeed, some­thing won­der­ful has hap­pened here in “Spec­tre.” It feels as if the series is just get­ting start­ed. Daniel Craig has found a direc­tor that under­stands the Bond for­mu­la well enough to bend it, reshape it, and make it his own. That direc­tor is Sam Mendes… 

“I thought my job was to tell the pub­lic the truth, the facts, pret­ty or not, and let the pub­lish­ing of those facts make a dif­fer­ence in how peo­ple look at things, at them­selves and what they stand for.” There’s a mis­sion state­ment that should be framed on each jour­nal­ist’s desk. These words are spo­ken by Gary Webb and they come at a cru­cial time.… 

“Mom­my” is an explo­sive dra­ma from Que­bec native Xavier Dolan who at the age of 25 is mak­ing quite a name for him­self. His lat­est dra­ma exam­ines the tumul­tuous rela­tion­ship between a wid­owed moth­er, Diane (played by Anne Dor­val), and her son Steve (Antoine-Olivi­er Pilon) who has a severe case of ADHD. The atmos­phere in their home is fright­en­ing. The two argue, using strong lan­guage. At one point, a verbal… 

Inter­view by Paul Stathakis | Sep­tem­ber 7, 2014   Paulz­eye: Talk to us a lit­tle about your­self. What per­suad­ed you to become an arts reporter and film crit­ic?   Eli Glas­ner: Well essen­tial­ly I was a behind-the-scenes chase pro­duc­er at CBC Radio when one of our film colum­nists moved on.  I had stud­ied film, in par­tic­u­lar screen­writ­ing at York Uni­ver­si­ty, it was my first love. When…