By Anne Brodie Jordan Peele proved he was a unique and gifted filmmaker and thinker in the groundbreaking Get Out and Us; here he comes in full flower with Nope an eerie outing about events on a Black-owned horse ranch in inland California. Peele defies nature's laws scripting an oncoming …
Juicy Week! Haute Couture, Jane Austen, Spies and Conspiracies, Summer Love and Animal Love.
By Anne Brodie Yet another superb performance by Lesley Manville in a film set in the world of Haute Couture. From fashion house co-director in Phantom Thread to Royal clothes horse Princess Margaret in The Crown to London cleaning lady besotted by Dior in the wonderful Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, …
Afro-futurist Sci-Fi, Pandemic, Romance, True Crime, Gardens and … Bake!
By Anne Brodie Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Neptune Frost, an "Afrofuturist sci-fi musical" produced by bad boy Ezra Miller and music gadfly Lin-Manuel Miranda is a musical science fiction smorgasbord that challenges our notions of what is film. It is a breakthrough in cinema, gentle, …
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Steamy New Series Skymed Follows Brave Flying Medics in Northern Canada As They Work and Play!
The Cast of Skymed Skymed follows a young flying healthcare team in remote northern Manitoba that depends on its own grit, knowledge, and intuition by necessity. Nurses, pilots, and support workers are hundreds of miles from the nearest hospitals as they deliver babies, save accident victims and …
It’s a Whiplash Long Weekend Onscreen, Naughty Ex-Pats, Social Climbing, a Fearsome Princess, and a Brill Nature Doc.
By Anne Brodie Sir David Attenborough's Profiles Plant Life on BBC Earth' new series The Green Planet, one of the best produced and most breathtaking nature docs I've seen starts with this statement “Every mouthful of food that we eat, every lungful of air that we breathe, depends on plants”. …