Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s ambitious decades spanning film Never Look Away starring Tom Schilling, Saskia Rosendahl and Paula Beer follows a boy through pre-WWII Nazi East Germany to the Cold War in Dresden, a journey of discovery and reconciliation. A boy called Kurt Barnert escapes to the …
Not A Lot of Valentine’s Day Romantic Comedies. I Miss the Nineties! Where Are You Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Renee Zellweger And Julia Roberts? We Need You. Plus Murder, Kidnapping And … The Bobbitts.
Isn’t It Romantic starring Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth, Adam Devine and Priyanka Chopra opened Wednesday purporting to take all the romcom clichés and kick ‘em to the curb. Wilson, the appealing Aussie comedienne produced the story about a woman who has no luck with men. She hits her head and …
Raven Sinclair – Trouble in the Garden
The Canadian government Residential Schools policy instituted in the 1870s permanently separated indigenous children from their families and immersed them in white culture. Religious schools were set up to convert them to Euro-Canadians, taking their heritage, language, sense of belonging, and …
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The Mighty Colm Feore’s Busy Season
Colm Feore, the formidable stage and screen actor born in America but whom we hold dear as a fellow Canadian, is one of our busiest artists with a history of great performances. He currently stars in the slow burn psychological horror thriller The Prodigy, with Taylor Schilling and ten-year-old …
Twice the Cold, Kid Troubles, Observations on Love, Observations of Hale County and Sing It, Sister – Jessye Norman at TIFF. Not Bad for Midwinter.
Nature imitates art for Liam Neeson and Mads Mikkelsen it two bone-chilling high north thrillers. They’re on missions from which they refuse to waiver, one revenge the other survival. Arctic opens a moment after Polar pilot Mikkelsen’s plane crashes in a wind-whipped frozen mountainous wasteland. …