Radio Canada
By Anne Brodie Netflix' Mae Martin miniseries Wayward casts an intriguingly odd and threatening spell in a remote forest where locals navigate disappearances, murder, kidnapping and child abuse. Tall Pines is a community on edge; the series opens with a loudspeaker blaring psychological abuse on …
Continue Reading about TIFF 2025 – Celebrating Fifty Years – is Here!!!
By Anne Brodie Ok so we have all had bad neighbours. That uncomfortable truth drives Lauren Holly’s darkly funny Loathe Thy Neighbour, a sarcastic, absurd comedy shot in rural Hamilton, ON. Strangely two farms are tightly side by each, unusual, but there you have it. In one, the prickly, …
By Anne Brodie Netflix’s pulse pounder mini series Hostage is such dark fun. It concerns the relationship between two female national leaders, left leaning British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton (Suranne Jones) and conservative French President Vivienne Toussaint (Julie Delpy) they are at odds …
Continue Reading about Young Love, Dancing, Romancing and Hostage Taking!
Carolina Bartcza stars as Abigail in Season 3 of the CBC sci fi emotional thriller series Plan B, an English adaptation of a French-language Quebec series of the same name. The original’s Its darkness carries forward in the English version tempered with touches of humour and the surreal. Abigail Is …
Continue Reading about What Would You Give to Change Things?
By Anne Brodie Jack Kerouac, his landmark book On the Road and the Beat era came before me, and was not a topic of conversation. But his legacy roars back to life in Ebs Burnough’s impressive doc Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation, a well-made collage of reminiscences those who knew him and …
