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By Anne Brodie Joe Wright's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac isn't to be dismissed. Its lyricism and Peter Dinklage's exceptional performance as Cyrano create wonder and a powerful sense of magic. Set in some timeless time in a beautiful mountain village, Cyrano loves …
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By Anne Brodie It's wonderful the ways artists have interpreted Shakespeare's Macbeth over the centuries. You won't find a theatrical performance, film or reading that's not utterly unique. The lines are unchanging but the ways they can be shaped and enhanced by movement, set design, …
The ridiculously popular Netflix series about Emily, an American girl who works at an elite publicity house in Paris, continues. Her ex-pat adventures only ramp up to greater heights this season, with more fab clothes, working life adventures and romance. Surrounded by her circle of American and …
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By Anne Brodie Turns out, What She Said host Candace Sampson and I have big feels for Christmas movies, like just about everyone else. No matter what your faith, religion, lack of, whatever, Christmas movies put timestamps on the year and holiday. They're appealingly familiar, generally filled …
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By Anne Brodie The Lost Daughter is the story of women pushed to their limits, whose instincts are tested and found wanting and the damage done. Olivia Colman's unsympathetic Leda is a British woman on a beach vacation in Greece. Her eyes and expression are fixed and unwelcoming. A man asks for …
