By Anne Brodie Write director Darlene Naponse's Stellar gets under the skin in record time. It takes place inside a dilapidated bar in Sudbury near the nickel and copper mines formed by a meteorite hitting Earth 1.8 billion years ago. "Aadizookaan" from the sky it came. Mother Earth willfully …
Marie Clements’ Provocative Series Bones of Crows Continues the Conversation on Colonialism and Impact.
Marie Clements takes her acclaimed film Bones of Crows to series to expand on the story of an Indigenous woman's struggles following a childhood of heartbreak and abuse. She was forcibly and legally removed from her childhood home and placed in an abusive residential school. We follow Aline, played …
Darlene Naponse Taps Into Nature’s Force in the Surreal, Mindbending Character Drama Stellar
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Braeden Clarke star as He and She, in Darlene Naponse' Stellar; strangers drinking and talking in a bar in Sudbury, in a place not their own. Various odd characters come in and out, and the bartender played by Rossif Sutherland serves up the drinks. Conversations are …
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A radical feminist story is revealed in Widow Clicquot which took place in the early 1880s in the fertile Champagne region of France. Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, played with authority by Haley Bennett is married to François (Tom Sturridge) who owns a failing Champagne vineyard and suddenly dies …
Is Love at First Sight Even Possible Without Being Cheesy? Jennifer E. Smith and Vanessa Caswill Trash the Stereotype.
Jennifer E. Smith's book The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight is the basis for Vanessa Caswill's Netflix's sweet and salty adaptation Love at First Sight, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy. They are Hadley, an American off to London for her father's second wedding. She meets …