You can catch Kate Wheeler’s daughter, actor-dancer Alex Beaton on W’s The Good Witch. Having seen Alex perform as a wee child onstage at the Shaw Festival, I’ve seen her grow and work hard and develop a very cool body of work. The Next Step made her a star with a huge international following and …
Meet Europe’s Last Female Bee Hunter, You’ll Be Awestruck
Honeyland, an award-winning documentary by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov offers a look inside a world few of us will ever see. An impoverished indigenous Turkish woman lives in a hut in the Macedonian mountains with her severely disabled mother. They have no electricity, water or roads but …
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Quentin Tarantino Messes with Us for the Ninth Time, a Canadian Space Tale Character Study About Longing, The True Story of the Hunt for Jihadi John, Female Led British Military Series, and Veronica Mars is Back in Town
I'm torn by “Quentin Tarantino’s Ninth Film”, the beautifully realised Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood. Set in LA in 1969 and crammed with references to every cultural thing that existed then – TV ads, celebrity, TV westerns, spaghetti westerns, pop music, grocery branding, karate, macho men, ad …
Actor Graham Greene talks new film ‘Astronaut’
Actor Graham Greene is nothing short of an arts phenomenon. Having worked steadily in film, TV and spoken word since 1979 and in theatre longer, the Oscar nominated, Oneida-Canadian has played every ethnicity, in all kinds of genres and mediums, a familiar face around the world. In 2015, he was …
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Simba Up Against One of Moviedom’s Great Villains, Awkwafina Amazes, Krazy Karate Kid, How Deregulation Creates Homelessness and a Brilliant Chinese Indie a la Fargo
Disney reimagines The Lion King using photo-realistic animation, a technology far beyond the original animated version while not quite using talking animals. It’s a powerful and often frightening experience for very young children telling the familiar story about a boy and his kingdom but as Disney …