By Anne Brodie The Norwegian black and white Gunda, an Academy Award® Shortlisted documentary is a beautiful, joyous, difficult and emotional experience. Produced by animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky, it's the story of a pig and her nineteen newborns, …
Gangs, Saints, Revolting Babies, Teen Angst and Hysterical Motherland!
Sundance Now's Motherland By Anne Brodie Steven Soderberg's noir period gang comedy No Sudden Move on Crave owes a huge debt to Noah Hawley's Fargo Season 4. Set amidst Black and Italian gangsters in the fifties, it's shot similarly with similar funky period music given a cool update, …
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Tracey Deer’s Beans – a Mohawk Child’s Traumatic Experience of Canada’s Oka Crisis.
Violah Beauvais and Kiawentiio, in Tracey Deer's Beans Tracey Deer's heartbreaking, fact-based film follows Beans, a young girl living on a reservation near Oka, Quebec, who had just been accepted into a prestigious school in Montreal. Her dream is interrupted when First Nations protesters battle …
Heroic Women, Truth-Seeking Women, Frontline Women, Entertaining Women – Film TV and Streaming Stories.
By Anne Brodie An inspirational, fable-esque but true story of a woman who stands her ground against ancient sexist traditions and social backlash will have you cheering! God Exists Her Name is Petrunya starring talented and intuitive first-timer Zorica Nusheva, is set in a Roman Catholic …
Is a Guy Good on Paper Good in Life? Iliza Schlesinger Finds Out With Help From Margaret Cho. Meet the Gals and the Guy, Ryan Hansen.
Iliza Schlesinger, Margaret Cho and Ryan Hansen in Netflix" Good on Paper Comic Iliza Schlesinger enters dangerous romantic territory in her passion project Good on Paper. She's Andrea, also a comedienne, who meets a nice fella called Dennis. He's dating a supermodel, has a Beverly Hills home, …