Winchester stars Helen Mirren stars as Sara, widow of the founder of the Winchester Gun company who, following his death was overcome by guilt and fear, connected to the souls of the people who died at the business end of the famed repeating Winchester rifle. In 1884, she moved from Connecticut to …
Crush Your Inner Critic
The Inner Critic is as unique as you and I. This internal voice brings you down, makes you feel unworthy and keeps you small! It’s negative, pessimistic, cynical and self-defeating. How did it get here, you may say? Through habitual mind patterns of established belief systems. Perhaps someone that …
Tender Love and Tough Love, Family Love, a Dash of Evil and Toronto Library’s Movie Gift to You
Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool looks at the real life romantic and sexual relationship between Hollywood noir queen and femme fatale Gloria Grahame and Peter Turner an aspiring Liverpool actor 28 years her junior. They met in his parent’s Liverpool boarding house in 1975 with a …
Oscar Nominated Thriller, Western Redux, Blood ‘n’ Guts, Obama Exits, Chilling True Life TV and Grace & Frankie Are Back, Baby
Diane Kruger won Best Actress at Berlin for her work in Fatih Akin’s thriller In the Fade set in contemporary and über rainy Hamburg. Katya, a native German and her Kurdish-German husband are trying to live a normal life following his drugs conviction and jail term. They’re doing well and have a …
Trifecta, Paddington’s Back! Murder Afoot and Canada’s Top Films Festival!
Austrian auteur Michael Haneke’s Happy End may or may not be a sequel to his arresting masterpiece Amour, and the earlier Cache, but it is the latest example of Haneke’s supreme talents as a filmmaker. It appears to be a continuation, at the very least, of the Laurent family stories, heavy on …
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