Animation directors Yibing Jiang and Jason Keane have created a nine-minute wordless marvel called Windup, now available on YouTube. It's about a little girl in rural China who is bedridden with illness. Her father tries to keep her spirits buoyed, and with a wind-up toy, they create a beautiful …
Black History Month, Love in Many Forms and an Aussie Rams.
By Anne Brodie HBO's remarkable anthology Black Art: in the Absence of Light from documentarian Sam Pollard reveals a vivid history of the strong African-American art culture, and the new talents springing up all over the US. The late artist, scholar and curator David Driskell's 1976 …
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Netflix’ Firefly Lane Follows Female Friendship Over Decades – Meet Stars Sarah Chalke and Her Fictional Younger Self, Roan Curtis.
Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl play best friends Kate and Tully, together since childhood, through thick and thin, as they navigate school, uni then jobs in the same newsroom. They're chalk and cheese at first glance but joined at the hip for decades, through tumult, pain and joy. Chalke plays …
Emma Caulfield’s Sitting on WandaVision Secrets! We Pried.
Emma Caulfield's been around the Marvel block and mysteriously returns in the studio's first television series WandaVision. The Disney+ series has fans in a dither, as suburbia is turned in its head and with it Queen Bee Dottie. What She Said' Anne Brodie spoke with Caulfield about those secrets. …
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Viggo Mortensen Makes His Directorial Debut with Falling, a Poignant Father-Son Story
Viggo Mortensen's character returns to the family farm to care for his father (Lance Henriksen) who's fallen into dementia. They attempt to come to terms with their issues, Willis' need for care, his anger about John's homosexuality and liberal ideas, and John's growing alarm about his father's …