Dennis Harvey

Much better known than most sitcom writers, partly for the wrong reasons -- notably his frequent clashes with co-workers and resultant firings -- Dan Harmon has a die-hard fanbase from...

The crimes committed by Mark DeFriest have kept him behind bars since 1979, most of that time spent in solitary confinement. Yet it's highly questionable that he poses any serious...

A rock icon gets a fine (not to mention finely named) tribute in "Super Duper Alice Cooper." This cinematic bio of shock rock's founding father ultimately traces a somewhat standard...

Multiple Emmy-winning Canadian documentary veteran John Kastner offers a companion piece to his "NCR: Not Criminally Responsible" with "Out of Mind, Out of Sight." Where the 2013 film followed one...

British sci-fier "The Machine" lands somewhere between "Blade Runner" and "Her" as a portrait of near-future humanity developing, and possibly being displaced by, beings of artificial intelligence. Closer to "Her"...

Ineffectual and cartoonish, "Perfect Sisters" dramatizes a case that shocked Canada a decade ago, when two teenage girls killed their alcoholic mother in order to be free of the chaos...

Audacious twists make the initially unpromising thriller "Proxy" grow more bizarre and compelling as it goes along. Skirting horror and black-comedy terrain without quite surrendering to either, the pic proves...

An ambitious first feature, if one that ultimately doesn't say much about the issues it's taken on, "Boys of Abu Ghraib" is writer-director-star Luke Moran's fictive take on an average...

Moving into family-autobiography terrain after her 2008 biopic "Sagan," Diane Kurys depicts an episode from her parents' lives just after World War II in "For a Woman." This drama of...