By Anne Brodie Due to some hiccups I’ve only now managed to see the magnificent Hamnet from Chloé Zhao who also made one of my most beloved films The Rider. This time she swoops down into 16th century Stratford-Upon-Avon, England and and into the lives of an impoverished family, an ambitious …
Lucy Liu Stars in Shattering True Story.
If you feel you've had too many happy moments during the holidays and need to balance your fate with something grim, be sure to catch the multi -award winning thriller Rosemead. Lucy Liu plays Irene, a struggling Los Angeles single mother with terminal cancer – she hasn’t told her schizophrenic …
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Two Fun Shows Indoors to Avoid the Blizzard.
By Anne Brodie It’s 1910 and Murdoch Mysteries takes us on a brief train ride to Calgary, where Det. Murdoch and Inspector Brackenreid are to attend the first ever Calgary Stampede, known then simply as The Stampede. Google states stampede has many shades of meaning and they apply in tonight's …
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Shetland Returns in Truimph for Season 10
By Anne Brodie The moodiest of moody murder mysteries, the original series Shetland now on BritBox enters its tenth season with the deeply shocking murder of an elderly woman on a remote, isolated island farm. Septuagenarian Eadie (Maria MacDonell) is found dead by neighbour Colin, a gruesome …
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Trials of a Civilized Woman
By Anne Brodie Apple Tree Yard, released theatrically in 2017 is now available as a series well worth resurrecting. Sure, there are problems with pacing and our changing feelings about the characters, but hang on – the slow burn is ideal, things feel lifelike and resonant and at the en when we …