By Anne Brodie Canada, drop everything and see Beans in theatres. This heart-tugging drama about a little girl caught up in a vicious cycle of racism and struggle is all too true. Images from July to September 1990, in Oka, Quebec, a standoff between police and Mohawk protesters defending their …
Wyatt Rockefeller’s Settlers Imagines the Life of a Family on Mars, Disrupted.
Brooklynn Prince, Jonny Lee Miller and Sofia Boutella in Wyatt Rockefeller's Settlers Jonny Lee Miller, Sofia Boutella and Brooklynn Prince play a family living on a farm on Mars, the planet's sole inhabitants. Their escape from earth has been worth it; they live in peace, raising pigs, creating …
Beans, Tracey Deer’s Beans Recalls the 1990 Oka Crisis and its Traumatic Effect on a Young Mohawk Girl.
Tracey Deer's heartbreaking, fact-based film follows Beans, a young girl living on a reservation near Oka, Quebec, who has just been accepted into a prestigious school in Montreal. Her dream is interrupted when First Nations protesters battle developers who intend to destroy sacred native grounds …
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Stars in S2 Netflix’ Never Have I Ever. You’ll Love Her.
Mississauga's own Maitreyi Ramakrishnan stars in Netflix' series Never Have I Ever, from Mindy Kaling, now in its second season. The show's a bright light in the vast desert of young adult offerings and concerns the life and times of Indian American Devi Vishwakumar as she navigates the landmines of …
An Extraordinarily Emotional Week in Filmed Entertainment.
By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley begins shooting her latest script Women Talking in Toronto And what a cast she's assembled! The mighty, mighty Frances McDormand, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, Ben Wishaw and our own Sheila McCarthy. Here's the official logline - "A group of women in an …
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