The week after Jessica Chastain won the 2022 Best Performance by an Actress Academy Award, she and Peter Sarsgaard began work on Michel Franco's micro-budget character study Memory. It was barebones, shot in a downmarket part of Manhattan, with no dressing rooms. Jessica did her own hair, makeup, …
Canada’s DJ Demers the First Person with Hearing Loss to Create, Write and Star in a CBC Sitcom. And One More Time is Wonderful.
Photo courtesy CBC DJ Demers' warm and hilarious take on the sitcom is refreshing. His humour is forthright, situational and humane, a rarity today. It's just nice, like Canadians. His debut series One More Time takes place in a second-hand sporting goods store, with a colourful cast of …
Newfoundland’s Pride and Joy, Mark Critch, Returns with the Third Season of His Beloved Comedy Series Son Of A Critch
Malcolm McDowell and Mark Critch in "Son of a Critch" :) photo CBC Benjamin Even Ainsworth in Son of a Critch photo CBC The Critch family played by Mark Critch, Claire Rankin, Colton Gobbo and Benjamin Even Ainsworth is back to bring its trademark Newfoundland humour and attitudes, with …
Run the Burbs is Back, Baby for a Third Season of Family Fun with the Phams.
Andrew Phung and Rakhee Morzaria return to CBC and CBC Gem on Jan 9 with the third season of Run The Burbs, their sharp comic take on average family life in an average Canadian suburban community. The series follows the Phams, a Vietnamese-South Asian family and brings new perspectives to raising a …
Continue Reading about Run the Burbs is Back, Baby for a Third Season of Family Fun with the Phams.
THis Week – Longing for the Past, Diving into the Future, Comedy, Tragedy, Chaos and Beauty.
Andrew Haigh's fantasy drama All Of Us Strangers packs an emotional punch strong enough to fell a person. It seems mundane enough at first. Andrew Scott is Adam, a writer working on a script in his high-rise London apartment; he looks out on the vast sky and bustling city below, but his thoughts are …