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Sarah Megan Thomas was fascinated by the history of female spies in WWII, particularly American Virginia Hall, an ex-pat living in France determined to save her beloved adopted country from the Nazis. Thomas researched, wrote, directed and stars as Hall in A Call to Spy which she told What She Said’ …
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix By Anne Brodie Netflix takes us to a time not unlike our own in the excellent film, The Trial of the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin revisits the protest-turned-riot outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago when high profile yippies Tom Hayden, Abbie …
Christopher Walken plays the real-life Canadian canola farmer who takes on the agrochemical giant Monsanto in Percy. It’s a slow burn corporate thriller, based on a 1998 lawsuit filed against Percy Schmeiser, a David and Goliath story, pitting a 70-year-old farmer against the multinational. …
Mossad agent Tamar makes a heart-pounding return to Tehran, Iran, the country of her birth, to carry out a top-secret highly dangerous mission, her first mission on the job. She's assigned to disrupt Iran’s nuclear weapons system by hacking the mainframe and disabling it. Seconds before the …
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By Anne Brodie Fargo Year Four arrives Sunday with a satchel full of origins history. Noah Hawley takes us south to Kansas City in 1950 from where the Black, Irish and Italian gangs run their widespread criminal activities – right up to Winnipeg! This series retains its wonky history, often …
