https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohj-v0pjFeY Filmmaker Rod Lurie’s interest in politics is bred in the bone, from childhood. He has been able to use that passion to interpret politics, particularly the US presidency for filmgoers throughout his career through his films The Contender, …
Eye-Opening Film Releases Oct 14 – the What a World! Edition – by Anne Brodie
Rebecca Hall plays Christine Chubbuck, a Florida TV newscaster who shot herself in the head live on air in 1974. The film Christine looks at her state of mind in the weeks leading up to her death and the personal and professional problems that contributed to her breakdown. Chubbuck repeatedly …
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Piper Hayes talks about her new EP “Goodbye Mister Nice Guy”
Piper Hayes is a critically acclaimed international performer, singer, songwriter and one-woman dynamo. On October 14, 2016, Hayes releases her second EP, a pop-folk trilogy of tunes, titled ‘Goodbye Mister Nice Guy’. The album was produced by Dean Drouillard (Royal Wood, Justin Rutledge) in …
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Epics, Mysteries, Historic Wrongs and A Polar Bear, Oh My! – Reviews by Anne Brodie
This is the one everyone’s talking about. TIFF fave Birth of a Nation is a sprawling historical epic about a little known slave uprising that took place over two days in which a small band of slaves killed 63 landowners in Virginia in 1831. Writer director and star Nate Parker, who made headlines …
Gabrielle Union Speaks Out about Birth of a Nation, Oppression and Healing | by Anne Brodie
Actress Gabrielle Union appears in Birth of a Nation without lines and only briefly, as a slave who has endured a sexual assault by white captors. Her appearance is powerful, not just in terms of the Nate Parker’s fact-based epic on the Nat Turner Rebellion in Virginia in 1831 when slaves rose up …