Fences, directed by and starring Denzel Washington and based on August Wilson’s landmark play, this is a nearly three hours showcase of the highest calibre of acting. Washington and Viola Davis who plays his wife give sustained master classes in the art, within a claustrophobic domestic drama about …
This Christmas Week’s Films Aren’t About Christmas. Everything But. | Reviews by Anne Brodie
If you need a lift this season, check out the zany animated gem Sing! A koala showman plans to restore his theatre to a glorious new future by staging the biggest voice contest ever held. His entrants include a moody teenaged ape, an Asian HK Pop group, head banging hedgehogs, a Vegas inspired pig, …
Emotions Run Amok This Week at the Movies | by Anne Brodie
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is an exciting, standalone Star Wars spin off – a short story in the Star Wars universe, as opposed to the forty year span of the Star Wars films. This is a first, its one and done. The story’s streamlined, the characters are engaging and the universe is nostalgically …
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Anne Brodie interviews David Frankel, director of COLLATERAL BEAUTY
David Frankel / Collateral Beauty Oscar winning director David Frankel make audiences laugh and cry, just the things his mother told him she liked in entertainment. After all, Marley & Me left us in tears, the Devil Wears Prada made us laugh and Hope Springs did both. Collateral Beauty with …
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Imitations of Life: The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Review by Anne Brodie
Cinematheque at TIFF Bell Lightbox Until Dec 23rd The late, great German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s contributions to film have been widely acknowledged. The cinematic universe he creates is ordinary and extraordinary, melodramatic and mundane, operatic and obtuse, cruel and loving, …