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Smoke Traders: The Native Cigarette Business

Smoke Traders, a documentary that premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Festival, looks at the illicit Native cigarette industry from the Mohawks' perspective. The film's director, Jeff...

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Yung Chang's new film: "China Heavyweight"

Yung Chang is the Montreal-based director of the award-winning documentary "Up The Yangtze", about the Three Gorges Dam project.  His new doc is "China Heavyweight",...

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The Psychology of Superheroes

The Avengers is the latest superhero movie to hit the big screen and Hollywood has been building hype around it for years. Most of the...

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Taxing Times for Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage paid $6 million in bcak taxes to the IRS this year, which might explain some dubious choices in roles in recent years -...

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Rock 'n' Roll Movie Hall of Fame

Last week, we produced a segment about some of the greatest rock 'n' roll movies of all time and asked an esteemed line-up of musicians... Read More »

The Best Rock & Roll Movies of All Time

This week on Day 6, we take an epic journey through the wild and weird world of rock & roll movies, with Lips from...

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Episode 72 - F-35 SNAFU

  Problem Procurement The Sound of Delicious Bond's Booze Pain at the Pumps Titanic in 3D William Gibson's Music Weather Warnings Do Sanctions Work?... Read More »

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What's the greatest rock & roll movie ever made?

Next week on Day 6, we're taking a look at music in the movies and we want to hear from you!  What's your pick for the greatest...

Bond, Booze and Brands

007 will be substituting his signature martini for a lowly beer in the upcoming film Skyfall, thanks to a product placement deal with Heineken. James...

A Tale Of Two Movies

So. Disney attempts to launch its own trilogy with pulp fiction classi John Carter.  The result?  A $200 million dollar disaster.Meanwhile, Lionsgate launches a film trilogy...