It is, Rankin said, the greatest producer of Christmas movies in the world. “I think something like 3,000 Hallmark movies are ...

Both a valentine to Iranian cinema and an absurdist look at Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin's comedy is ...

Director Matthew Rankin ’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest ...

It's not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto ...

Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

Matthew Rankin’s whimsical, cerebral comedy takes place in a version of the northern nation that is full of Iranian ...

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and ...

Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and ...

Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...

A controversial universal school voucher bill was the subject of more long debate over its constitutionality in the Wyoming Senate on Wednesday before passing its third and final reading by a vote of ...

“Universal Language,” directed by Matthew Rankin, is a gently funny, gently moving, slightly surrealist little comedy that’s aimed at two groups of people: Canadians, specifically but not ...

Take this four-star tour of a Winnipeg that may never exist. The stony, terse comedy “Universal Language” has all the wind, snow and monotony one might envision in Manitoba, especially for ...