By Anne Brodie Chicago native Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama We Grown Now follows two best friends living in the notorious Cabrini-Green projects at the height of its drugs and crime waves. Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez) are spontaneous fun-loving kids, who love to jump …
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By Anne Brodie Unfrosted, the true but enchanced story of Pop Tarts, directed by and starring Jerry Seinfeld boasts a massive cast of funny friends including Jim Gaffigan, Melissa McCarthy, Hugh Grant, Patrick Warburton, Max Greenfield, Amy Schumer, Jack McBrayer, Cedric the Entertainer, James …
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By Anne Brodie Sometimes a movie will knock you flat out. The King Tide is such a film. It's set on a wild, windy isolated island off Newfoundland and Labrador, where its population origins are cloaked in mystery. It’s a closed society, “mainlanders” are to be shunned and discouraged from showing …
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By Anne Brodie - Léa Seydoux and George MacKay star in The Beast, from Bertrand Bonello, as lovers who meet over a century of time space, and emotion but never quite gel. Both suffer from anxiety, and panic as catastrophes happen, again and again, 1910, 1990s, 2044, wherever their narrative lands …
The Fact-Based Irena’s Vow Shines a Light on a Polish Nurse’ Extraordinary Heroism in WWII Nazi-Occupied Warsaw. Sophie Nélisse is Irene Gut Opdyke, Who Singlehandedly Saved Dozens of Jewish Lives.
The incredible story of nineteen-year-old Irena Gut only recently came to light, decades after the events of WWII. Gut was taken prisoner by the Nazis and assigned to be housekeeper and cook to an SS Commander. That’s when she decided to take a dozen Jewish prisoners, who would have been caught up …