By Anne Brodie My admiration for Dale Dickey knows no bounds. Her subtlety and theatrically trained, seasoned work has won her a remarkable range of characters. Her face is pure Americana, a natural wonder left to its own devices and brimming with experience. It is a pleasure to watch her in Max …
A Woman Finds Herself Alone in Canada’s Far North. Just Keep Breathing.
Netflix' excruciatingly intense wilderness series Keep Breathing follows Manhattan lawyer Liv played by Melissa Barrera, who is en route to Inuvik, Northwest Territories. But suddenly, the small, unregistered plane crashes into a frigid mountain lake. Her fellow passengers die and she's left alone, …
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Nature Overwhelms, Above and Below, Jordan Peele, Joanne and Paul Newman, Sharks!
By Anne Brodie Jordan Peele proved he was a unique and gifted filmmaker and thinker in the groundbreaking Get Out and Us; here he comes in full flower with Nope an eerie outing about events on a Black-owned horse ranch in inland California. Peele defies nature's laws scripting an oncoming …
Juicy Week! Haute Couture, Jane Austen, Spies and Conspiracies, Summer Love and Animal Love.
By Anne Brodie Yet another superb performance by Lesley Manville in a film set in the world of Haute Couture. From fashion house co-director in Phantom Thread to Royal clothes horse Princess Margaret in The Crown to London cleaning lady besotted by Dior in the wonderful Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, …
Afro-futurist Sci-Fi, Pandemic, Romance, True Crime, Gardens and … Bake!
By Anne Brodie Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Neptune Frost, an "Afrofuturist sci-fi musical" produced by bad boy Ezra Miller and music gadfly Lin-Manuel Miranda is a musical science fiction smorgasbord that challenges our notions of what is film. It is a breakthrough in cinema, gentle, …
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