Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay’s hotly anticipated film adaptation of the bestselling science fantasy novel for children A Wrinkle in Timeis a marvel. Not many films, let alone children’s films, dare to take on spirituality and philosophy, literature and mythology, and non-ironic travel to new …
Mina Shum on Meditation Park
Meditation Park written and directed by Mina Shum, and starring Pei-Pei Cheng and Sandra Oh, is a tragicomedy, a romp about love, trust, home and coping in a Chinese community in Vancouver. Pei-Pei Cheng, a major star in China, joined Shum’s film on condition that she not be made to ride a bicycle …
Why Wasn’t I Invited to That Party? Looking at the Past for Answers, Hunting a Hunter and WhoHaha!
This is the time and the way to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s multi-Oscar nominated Phantom Thread as we head towards the Oscars. Daniel Day-Lewis is stunning as a controlling, precise, hard to please fashion designer who moulds a country girl into a suitable romantic partner. He then discovers that is …
Beware The Shimmer, What is a Parent?, Kids Pushed to the Limit, Rats and Britbox!
Annihilation is a sci-fi adventure celebrating female strength like writer director Alex Garland’s last ground-breaking thriller Ex Machina. Scientist Natalie Portman’s biologist husband played by Oscar Isaac goes missing on a top-secret government mission to an unidentified environmental hotspot. …
Black Panther Looks at a MASSIVE Weekend, Japanese Horror, Woman Power, Class Warfare, a Toronto Story and a Favourite Returns!
Marvel’s Black Panther rewrites film and cultural history, breathes new life into the superhero genre, I daresay reinvents it and breaks through all the glass ceilings. It is the first ever-black superhero film, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, and features an all-black cast, barring Andy …