The Toronto International Film Festival is well underway, the streets around TIFF Bell Lightbox are cheek to jowl with delighted film fans taking their pick from 333 films from around the world. Energy is high, curiosity and hope are the order of the day – not only is there a phenomenal sense of …
Jillian Bell’s Star’s Rising – See Her Run Here, Boisterous Comedies, a River Runs Through China, Carnival Row’s Alt-Victorian Universe, a Murder and a Real Estate Deal. Plus a Fun Adoption Web series
Comedian Jillian Bell takes a journey to wellness as an actor and a woman in Brittany Runs a Marathon, a dramedy about a woman who identifies as fat and decides to do something about it. Her doctor says lose 45-55 pounds, quit smoking, drinking, junk food and inactivity, and she complies. As the …
Water Tells the Story of Earth’s Future Right Now, a Fact-Based, Harrowing Story of Corporate Greed Circa 1845 on Lake Superior, The Roots and Branches of Fiddler on the Roof & more
Victor Kossakovsky’s Aquarela features zero narration, near zero conversation, but its alarmingly loud. Through the sounds of water rushing, ice shattering and splintering without interruption, we learn that global warming is accelerating, no words necessary, the images scream for themselves. The …
Francis Ford Coppola Unleashes Apocalypse Now, Now, the Way He Wanted to Forty Years Ago! Cate Blanchett’s Brilliant Journey with Billy Crudup as Her Husband Who Fails to Understand and more
One of the most powerful anti-war films ever made turns forty on August 15th and director Francis Ford Coppola is releasing Apocalypse Now: Final Cut in limited theatrical and DVD release. He says the original was “too clipped”, REDUX is “too long”, and this new version, it’s the way he originally …
The Thriller Luce Raises Concerns Over the Fate of Child Soldiers Adopted into The West, a Bristling, Seismic Portrait of the Newsman We Need Now, Meek Mill Bombshell Documentary and the Canadian Angle, and Hold the Highest Grossing Film of All Time In Your Hand Tuesday!
Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Luce a child soldier adopted from Eritrea by an American couple played by Naomi Watts and Tom Roth. As they will tell anyone who’ll listen, they’ve handed their lives over to help him make the transition and it’s paid off – he’s an A student, athlete, good guy and school …