Mexico’s Day of the Dead seems like a grim idea for an annual musical festival, celebrating those who have left us. It features death masks and gruesome skeleton costumes, but Disney Pixar’s Coco shows it as a colourful, loving ode to family ties, through feasts and music that is anything but grim. …
McDormand Rules, Wonder Woman $$$, Wonder Boy, Southern Fried Murder, Donald Trump is Fake News and Heavy Lies the Head…
Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is everything a great movie should be, it’s a smart thriller, a black comedy drama, a murder mystery and a riveting journey, a skillfully executed high wire act. It requires close attention to absorb the myriad ways it looks at our nature …
Disney Star Ross Lynch Makes Big U-Turn in My Friend Dahmer
Ross Lynch has been a staple of Disney Channel musical sitcoms since 2012, best known as pop star and teen heartthrob Austin Moon in the series Austin & Ally and as Brady in the Teen Beach Movie series. Lynch is also a touring musician with his band R5. Singing and dancing may be genetic as …
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Murder, Adolescent Rebellion, Serial Killer as a Child, Babies That Don’t Age, Acorn Extravaganza and Andrei Tarkovsky is My New Cinema Crush
Murder On The Orient Express directed by Kenneth Branagh, is the 12th iteration of the classic Agatha Christie mystery, and one of those is a videogame. We all know whodunit, where, why and whatnot. But what a delicious chance to cram a slew of A-listers aboard a flash train carriage and have …
There’s a New Trendsetter in Town: Interview with Lauren Lee Smith
Lauren Lee Smith Debuts in Period Detective Series Frankie Drake on CBC Monday at 9 P.M. and stars in Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape Of Water In Theatres Dec. 8. Canadian television has a brand new heroine – a smart, spunky, ahead-by-a-century detective who in 1921 Toronto runs her own business, …
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