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By Anne Brodie Can’t remember the last time a film made me feel queasy and then Oh, Hi! happened. Sophie Brooks’ unflinching look at love and cruelty stars Molly Gordon as fun loving but intense Iris. She’s dating Isaac (Logan Lerman) an easy-going charmer ; theyre spending their first …
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By Anne Brodie Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight is a sad reminder of the evils of colonialism and how racists are created. Lexi Venter is seven-year-old Bobo, the white Rhodesian child of a solider and a homemaker (Embeth Davidtz who also wrote, directed and produced the film with Trevor Noah) …
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By Anne Brodie Under a Dark Sun concerns Alba Mazier (Ava Baya) a frantic French woman, hardened by life, escaping a lover under cover of night with her young son Leo (Max Harter); the abuser threatens them with violence as they screech away into the dark hills. He’d taken all her money so she …
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By Anne Brodie Directed by Edivan Guajajara, co-founder of Mídia Indígena, Brazil’s leading Indigenous-led journalism collective and environmental filmmakers Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, We Are Guardians, reminds us of the devastation that once threatened to ruin the global environment - the …
By Anne Brodie The superior drama His Father's Son reinvents the way we see families in cinema; this is a whole new animal, shot in Toronto by Meelad Moaphi whose rich cinematic vision is a treat. We meet Amir (Alireza Shojaeia) a talented, aspiring chef who loses his job at a fine dining …
Continue Reading about The Mitfords!!! Rob Ford, Family in Crisis and an Immigrant Story.
