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

"We are living in an era that is increasingly cruel, mean, and rigid," says director Matthew Rankin, but "art still has the ...

You certainly don't need to be from Winnipeg to get a lot of the fun that "Universal Language" is having with an obviously alternate version of the capital of ...

It’s these type of oddball flourishes, presented with the straightest of faces, that turn Universal Language into something besides random vignettes corralled together into one free-form goof.

“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 ...

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the ...

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the ...

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the ...