“That’s the problem when you talk about John: People don’t really have a lot of negative things to say about him,” Bill Murray says in the opening scene of “John Candy: I Like Me,” the new documentary ...

I fell in love with John Candy the moment I saw him serve up those shovel-sized pancakes in “Uncle Buck.” John Hughes wrote the part of Uncle Buck specifically for Candy, and the uncle’s affection for ...

Colin Hanks remembers the exact moment he met John Candy. He was just a child when his father, Tom (you may have heard of him before), starred in Splash with Candy, yet the Canadian comedian talked to ...

The Toronto International Film Festival is opening its 50th edition on Sept. 4 with a look back at one of the Great White North’s own: legendary SCTV comedic actor-turned-comedy superstar, John Candy ...

Early in the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me, there's an excerpt from Candy's 1994 funeral. Saturday Night Live alum Dan Aykroyd eulogized his friend and collaborator. "This is no meager life we ...

Ahead of the festival's opening night world premiere of "John Candy: I Like Me," filmmaker Hanks told IndieWire about the challenges of making a doc about someone universally beloved — and the many ...

On screen, John Candy was often the gregarious life of the party. He smoked and drank through a game of racquetball in “Splash,” he charmed a household of unruly kids with his free-spirited ways in ...