Acorn TV and BBC present a radical new adaptation of One of Christie’s Most Loved Mysteries on www.acorn.tv premiering Mon. Jan. 30 Kim Cattrall, fresh off raves for her HBO series Sensitive Skin, a series she championed for more than a decade, launches another of her projects. …
May You Live in Interesting Times | by Cindy Stone
“May you live in interesting times…” is often attributed to an old Chinese proverb that doubles as a curse. Interesting times most often come fraught with difficulties and challenges and there is no doubt we are living in interesting times. In the recent past, we have had devastating terrorist …
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Chilly Scenes of Winter, Fast Food Hubris and Agatha Christie Gets Sexy! This Week at the Movies
Zacharias Kunuk one of Canada’s greatest filmmakers and one of my favourites anywhere, re-envisions the John Wayne classic western The Searchers in Igloolik, Nunavut in harsh winter. Maliglutit opens as an argument breaks out in an igloo between a family of nomads and ruffians who have demanded …
Love, Shock, Sex and The Works – This Week in Movies and TV, by Anne Brodie
Patriots Day – The footage of the Boston marathon runners approaching the final lap as bombs explode beside them is seared on our collective memory and the thought of revisiting that tragic moment is difficult. But writer director Peter Berg and producer star Mark Wahlberg handle the attack and …
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A Stellar Week at the Movies and on TV, Quality Over Quantity | Anne Brodie
Bright Lights The heart breaking nearly simultaneous deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds marked a poetic, but sad end. They were “married” to each other in a sense, each single after multiple marriage fails, connected, intimate next door neighbours for decades. Spend a warm two …
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