By Anne Brodie The Andrea Riseborough underground Oscar campaign - if unconventional - exists for a reason. The British actor is positively on fire in an extremely difficult, naked role in the fact-based elegy of an addict To Leslie. Made on a shoestring budget, and executive produced and …
In Which We’re Cautioned, Delighted, Engaged and Aghast!
By Anne Brodie Big news this week! The 20th-anniversary 4K restoration release of Ang Lee's masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The quadruple Oscar-winning landmark film, a departure for Lee whose prior work included Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, and later …
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Sadie Laflamme-Snow and Andie MacDowell Time Travel in Hallmark’s The Way Home.
It's not often that a young actor has the opportunity to play a complicated character who undergoes experiences that fundamentally change her while spanning two time periods. But Sadie Laflamme-Snow who plays Alice in Hallmark Channel's The Way Home had what she calls a "masterclass". Her Alice …
What We Deserve by Shelley Jarrett
In her latest documentary, "What We Deserve," Canadian filmmaker Shelley Jarrett sheds light on the long-standing issue of colonialism and the slave trade in relation to the British monarchy. The film, co-produced and written by Andrew Terry Pasieka, will be screened on February 18 at the Burlington …
Valentine’s Day Just Around the Corner, Love Stories de rigueur.
By Anne Brodie But first, lately, I've become obsessed with the late Diana Vreeland, iconoclast and longtime editor of Harper's Bazaar and later Vogue, who then turned the staid Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its head. Prime Video has the 2011 doc Diana Vreeland: The Eye …
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