JUPITER’S LEGACY on NETFLIX - MATT LANTER as GEORGE HUTCHENCE / SKYFOX A new/old crop of superheroes puts an all-new spin on the genre. Jupiter's Legacy, now on Netflix concerns a band of crime fighters united in their mission to save and change the world. They came into being in the 1920s and …
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Jean Smart in Hacks on HBO By Anne Brodie Barry Jenkins' long-anticipated 10-part series The Underground Railroad based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead is now on Amazon Prime. It's the story of Cora (South African actor Thuso Mbedu), a young Black slave attempting to …
Mother’s Day, REALLY Lost in Space, Fake Gurus, Competitive Table Setting, True Crime and Bert and Ernie!
By Anne Brodie Most of us were raised on Sesame Street, one of the most inventive, influential and popular children's television programmes, next to Mister Rogers Neighbourhood, in history. Marilyn Agrelo and Michael Davis' documentary Street Gang How We Got to Sesame Street goes back to the …
Radicals on the Run, Mysticism in Daily Life, an Elizabeth Banks Obsession, Michael B. Jordan, and a New Canadian Streaming Service!
About Endlessness By Anne Brodie My pick this week is the Apple TV+' Mosquito Coast, a remake of the Harrison Ford / Helen Mirren / River Phoenix drama of 1986, both based on Paul Theroux's novel about a family on the run. The original was shatteringly intense and it was the first time I …
Aidan Turner Plays Leonardo da Vinci, One of History’s Most Accomplished Human Beings.
You may know Irish actor Aidan Turner as the darkly handsome hero of TV's historic hit series Poldark. Turner goes back even further in time for his latest acting challenge, as cultural, technological and scientific polymath Leonardo da Vinci, tracing this complex man's life, loves and creativity. …