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By Anne Brodie Another elegant, powerful, intelligent, and moving film from Ava DuVernay, whose inspired films are always a joy. Origin, the latest film DuVernay wrote and directed follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a remarkable performance) whose …
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Author and filmmaker Laetitia Colombani's trilogy The Braid (La Tresse) ties together the stories of three women from around the globe Kim Raver as Sara a Montreal lawyer, Mia Maelzer as Smita, an Untouchable in India, and Fotinì Peluso as Giulia, an Italian businesswoman. Each faces sudden …
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Cush Jumbo is June, a brilliant rising Detective Inspector in a London Constabulary targeted by her white male superiors who stop at nothing to undercut her work. Believing they're inspired by racism and misogyny she digs down and finds evidence of a serious ethical breach of their office a decade …
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, …
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 …
