By Anne Brodie Disappearance at Clifton Hill based on a childhood experience of writer-director Albert Shin has a deliciously noir vibe, set in the height of Niagara Falls’ neon grotesquerie, the strip joints, diners, seedy motels with barely a glimpse of the natural wonder that made it famous. …
Marie-Josée Croze, the Mystery Woman of Disappearance at Clifton Hill
By Anne Brodie Albert Chin’s enigmatic mystery Disappearance at Clifton Hill takes place when Niagara Falls was at its tacky peak as an exploitative tourist trap. It’s inspired by an incident Shin witnessed as a child and it reverberates through our minds long after the film ends. As director …
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Meet The Song of Names’ Young Violin Virtuosos.
François Girard’s Holocaust drama The Song of Names stars Clive Owen as the grown character played by Luke Doyle, Dovidl age 9-13 years of age and Jonah Hauer-King, age 17-23. He struggles as a Jew during WWII while bearing the scars of a difficult childhood. The Song of Names which led the …
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What She Said Celebrates Men – This Week’s Film, TV and Streaming Stars
The Call of the Wild based on Jack London’s enduringly popular wilderness novel concerns Buck the dog, who enjoyed a life of privilege, a pampered pet sold as a working dog to Yukon gold miners plunges into the frozen north and wide-open spaces. New owners” a Canada Post employee (Omar Sy) and his …
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14 V-Day Films That Claim to Have the Answer to Love
Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a sumptuously beautiful psychological study of love and transformation within a blossoming romance between an 18th-century French aristocrat (Adèle Haenel) and an artist (Noémie Merlant) commissioned to paint her wedding portrait. Marianne arrives at an …
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