By Anne Brodie Not long now till TIFF 20, pandemic edition, the 45th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Sept.10-19. It will be vastly different but with the creative use of digital resources and socially distanced in theatre screenings, as well as digital, it will still feel like …
Celebrate United Nations’ Environmental Day, Dear …, Race Your Pulse and Get Down with Elizabeth Moss.
By Anne Brodie Toronto activist Hannah Alper is seventeen years old, and she’s a world-renowned global activist. Let that sink in. At nine, she launched her blog Call Me Hannah and since that time has given a Ted Talk, spoken at 37 WE events and is the hopeful heart and face of Canada’s youth …
Women Look After Themselves – Horror, Crime, Satanism and the Search for Justice.
By Anne Brodie First Cow is a deceptively simply told fable that gets under the skin and lingers. Two men in the Klondike have vague dreams of cashing in on the 1896 gold rush. Kelly Reichardt whose films I deeply admire takes us back in time to the brutal unforgiving north full of dreamers …
Ken Loach Looks at the Evils of the Gig Economy in the Powerful Sorry We Missed You
Ken Loach is a social realist filmmaker whose films reveal the plight of the working class in Britain. His sharp focus on social, economic and other injustices has opened eyes for five decades. They are urgent and of the moment. In Sorry We Missed you, Loach turns his lens on the gig economy, an …
A Big Week for Horses, Dancing to Connect, Joaquin Phoenix’ Shattering Performance, Spies, Tennis and Human Rights
Stephen S. Campanelli, Clint Eastwood’s cinematographer directs the gripping and powerful Indian Horse, starring young Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck and Ajuawak Kapashesit. They play Canadian First Nations boy Saul Indian Horse over twenty years. He is kidnapped from his family by government …