Jessica Chastain presents a new kind of feminine hero in Miss Sloane – or anti-hero depending on your point of view. She’s extraordinary and brilliant, a bruisingly cunning woman in a powerful position as an anti-gun lobbyist. She moves forward like a shark, never looking at the damage she’s caused …
Slim Film Pickings – TV Wins This Week, by Anne Brodie
Things to Come (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve) stars Isabelle Huppert as a married author in Paris who teaches writing at the local university. We meet her just as her troubles are piling up at breakneck speed. She learns her husband, an unappealing professor with megalomania is cheating on her and moving in …
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Oscar Bait and Flop Sweat But More Good Than Bad This Week at the Movies! by Anne Brodie
Manchester-by-the-Sea, one of the most admired films at TIFF is a quiet stunner, starring Casey Affleck in a career-defining performance that may well earn him a Best Actor nomination/win. He plays a janitor named guardian to his teenaged nephew (Lucas Hedges) when his brother (Kyle Chandler) dies. …
The Sounds of Christmas: A holiday show in a 40’s radio station
In a few short weeks, the delights of the winter season will be upon us: snow will fall, children will make snowmen, the holiday decorations will be up and you won’t be able to drive down a street without seeing the twinkle of white lights on a tree. But this year you can really get a glimpse of the …
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Magic, Revenge, Teen Angst, Life Imitating Art Imitating Life and an Artist | Reviews by Anne Brodie
Harry Potter penner J. K. Rowling has created a second franchise based on the adventures of writer and magic devotee Newt Scamander beginning in 1926 in New York. Eddie Redmayne is Newt in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates) the first of five films coming our way from now till …