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By Anne Brodie June Squibb, the Oscar-nominated (Nebraska) 95-year-old finally gets her first lead, after 70 years! And she’s solid gold. What a woman! Squibb plays Thelma; she's fiercely independent and lives alone in the home she shared with her late husband. Her daughter (Parker Posey) …
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The wonderfully bawdy, purposely historically inaccurate, and utterly hilarious series My Lady Jane looks at a succession war in the Tudor English royal court of 1553. The magnificent Anna Chancellor is Lady Frances Grey, mother of Jane who, in this version is not executed at age 16 but goes on to …
By Anne Brodie Lena Dunham’s 1980s meditation on the father-daughter relationship in Treasure is authentically emotional. She’s Ruth, a journalist who joins her Polish American father Edek, played by Stephen Fry, on a trip to Warsaw Poland to see the places of his past. He’s a Holocaust …
By Anne Brodie Meet the 2024 Governor General artistic laureates in their natural habitats in a new series of seven short films. The National Film Board of Canada commissioned filmed profiles averaging 3 – 5 minutes and one at 23 to honour Canadian performing artists of excellence, via “portraits …
By Anne Brodie Richard Gere stars in Longing, a romantic drama partly shot in Kitchener and Hamilton, with a peculiar bent. Adapted from writer-director Savi Gabizon’s own 2017 film, it’s a story of loss and hoped-for redemption. Gere is Daniel who meets his Canadian ex-Rachel (Suzanne Clément) …
