TV Guide: Mark McKinney

Listing: Rarer Monsters

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 29 09:00 AM SUNDe The company experiences the curse of Macbeth.

Listing: Unaccompanied Minors

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:30:00 -0400

Sat Oct 25 07:30 AM HBO2e

Listing: Fallow Time

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 22 09:00 AM SUNDe Richard begins an austerity program at the Festival.

Listing: Season's End

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 01:00 AM SUNDe The festival is in financial crisis.

Video: Same Guys, New Dresses

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:29:30 -0400

In 2000, the acclaimed comedy troupe of The Kids in the Hall series reunited for a live performance tour, six years after their groundbreaking television series went off the air, and four years after the release of their movie The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. A camera crew followed the Kids -- Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson -- as they traveled across the United States and Canada. The Kids in the Hall: Same Guys, New Dresses captures highlights of their hilarious on-stage performances, as well the sometimes prickly working relationship of five talented men who each have their own ideas about comedy. Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter also make cameo appearances as Dave Foley and Mark McKinney visit O'Brien's television show (to the consternation of Thompson, who canceled an appearance on the same show at the last minute). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Saddest Music In The World, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:45:09 -0400

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin directs The Saddest Music in the World, reworked from an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, the film involves a contest announced by the legless and glamorous Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) to find the saddest music in the world. She's hoping the contest will result in increased sales of her company's brand of beer. American theatrical producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) shows up to win the contest with his kooky show-business idea, while brother Roderick Kent (Ross McMillan) returns from the war. Maria de Medeiros plays Narcissa, a sleep walker romantically linked to both brothers. Their father, the alcoholic doctor Fyodor Kent (David Fox), is tortured by his role in Lady Port-Huntly's leg amputation, so he makes her a new glass pair filled with beer. The Saddest Music in the World was shown at the {~2003 Toronto Film Festival}. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide.

Video: Dog Park

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:30:30 -0400

Former Kids In The Hall member Bruce McCulloch wrote and directed this comedy about the romantic tribulations of a group of Toronto twenty-somethings whose relationships with their dogs are more stable and long-lasting than their romances with people. Nice guy Andy (Luke Wilson) gets dumped by his girlfriend Cheryl (Kathleen Robertson) when she meets another man (Gordon Currie); worst of all, Cheryl also ends up with custody of Andy's dog. On the rebound, Andy meets Lorna (Natasha Henstridge), the host of a children's TV show, but she's too obsessed with her dog Peanut to pay Andy much mind. Keiran (Kristin Lehman), on the other hand, is a bit too enthusiastic for Andy, leading to yet another short-lived relationship. Cheryl ends up taking her dog (formerly Andy's dog) to a pet psychiatrist (Mark McKinney) who thinks that her promiscuity may be traumatizing the pooch. Meanwhile, Bruce McCulloch and Janeane Garofalo are cast against type as Jeff and Jeri, Andy's cheerful and annoyingly romantic friends. Althou

Video: Superstar

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:05:16 -0400

Molly Shannon brings her Saturday Night Live character Mary Katherine Gallagher to the silver screen. A mildly hyperactive Catholic school student convinced that she smells bad, Mary Catherine has a dream: she wants a boy to kiss her. Not just any old sloppy teenage make-out party kind of smooch, but the sort of kiss that will make her tingle with joy from head to toe. The trouble is, boys aren't all that interested in Mary Catherine, especially not Sky (Will Ferrell), the boy she'd most like to be kissed by. So Mary Catherine has a goal: if she wants to be kissed the way boys kiss girls in the movies, then she must become a movie star. Not a bad idea, but how does one bring this about? Superstar co-stars Elaine Hendrix and former Kids in the Hall cast member Mark McKinney, while another Kids in the Hall alumnus, Bruce McCulloch, directed. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: The Saddest Music In the World

iTunes — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:21:54 -0400

It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Sobbing Mexican Mariachis, dour Scottish Bagpipers, woeful West African drummers and numerous other grief-stricken ensembles give it their all. Down-on-his-luck Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) and his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) return home to his native Winnipeg as the United States entry in the contest. He soon finds himself embroiled in a family reunion as treacherous and twisted as the competition itself. Ultimately, a cataclysmic fire and the machinations of fate sort matters out for the sad characters and the denizens of the saddest city on earth. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Madden's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the M

Video: Art Of Seduction: Not Pretty, Really: Director Commentary

Sundance Channel — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:38:47 -0400

Director Mark McKinney provides commentary for his film NOT PRETTY, REALLY.

Video: They Shoot Reporters Don't They

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:35:50 -0400

As Wanda's filmed segment finishes playing during the live broadcast of The Beltway Gang, she has still not arrived at the studio to sit on the panel and discuss it. Although her fans usually love when she calls in from her cellular telephone, the station manager, Max (recurring guest star MARK McKINNEY), is furious at Wanda's tardiness. Later, while shooting a piece on automated teller machines, Wanda gets stuck in the middle of a bank robbery and is forced to do some real reporting from the scene--Wanda style. Meanwhile, Wanda promises to rent Halloween costumes for Jenny's kids.