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By Anne Brodie The Toronto Japanese Film Festival, one of our premiere film fests, drawing international films, fans and creators to town begins its 12th annual edition at Kobayashi Hall at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, June 8 to 22. The Centre offers top current and premiering …
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By Anne Brodie Writer-director Marie Clements' devastating Bones of Crows follows a Cree woman from childhood through her life and one hundred years of violent, hateful abuse of indigenous people in Canada. Set against historic government decisions that resulted in discrimination as policy in …
By Anne Brodie Comic Sebastian Maniscalco handles what could have been underwhelming material well in this standard family dysfunction comedy About My Father pretty well. He doesn't go broad or for the caricature as Sebastian, a man who has moved up the social ladder through his fiancée Ellie …
By Anne Brodie Dir. Felix Van Groeningen's adaptation of Paolo Cognetti's novel The Eight Mountains will rip your heart out. Told simply, with the Italian Alps a looming, breathtaking presence, follows a friendship between two men over forty years. Pietro lives in a Turin apartment block and …
Tahirah Sharif is Lizzie a promising young police officer whose strange behaviour after a horrific accident raises questions about her. In Season 2 of The Tower, Lizzie returns to clear herself and gets right back in on the action with new cases that challenge her again and again. Very interesting …
