By Anne Brodie One Night in Miami imagines a February night in 1964, in a motel room as Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Malcolm X (!) gather to celebrate Clay's win over Sonny Liston, making him the heavyweight champion of the world. Regina King directs this incredible story starring …
Our TIFF Organisational Tipsheet, Breonna Taylor, Mulan Streams and We’ll Wrap with The Golden Girls!
By Anne Brodie Not long now till TIFF 20, pandemic edition, the 45th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Sept.10-19. It will be vastly different but with the creative use of digital resources and socially distanced in theatre screenings, as well as digital, it will still feel like …
Rachelle Lefevre Tackles a Deadly Mystery in Acorn’s The Sounds
Acorn’s miniseries The Sounds, finds a Canadian woman excited to travel from Vancouver to New Zealand to join her husband and launch a business. But just days after her arrival he disappears, and the body of a woman murdered 15 years earlier is discovered. The idyllic, majestic New Zealand …
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At Long Last Tenet, Bill & Ted! And Enough Streaming and In Theatres To Keep Everyone Entertained!
By Anne Brodie Two major releases this week, as different as chalk and cheese, Bill & Ted Face the Music, and Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited Tenet. And yet so very similar. Both depend upon the plastic nature of time and space, as our protagonists time travel to find, hide, and fix …
Remember Moana’s Auli’i Cravalho? She Lights Up Netflix’ Moving YA Dramedy All Together Now, and That Voice!
Auli'i Cravalho and Rhenzy Feliz as Amber and Ty in All Together Now By Anne Brodie Auli'i Cravalho nailed Disney's singing islander Moana, and she uses that wonderful voice again in Netflix' All Together Now based on Matthew Quick's novel Sorta Like a Rock Star. She's musical prodigy …