Culture and class clash in BritBox’ new comedy series Kate & Koji. Brenda Blethyn is Kate, a seaside cafe owner who bonds with a man just as outspoken and hardheaded as she is, Koji, a wealthy and accomplished asylum-seeking doctor who lands in her cafe and stays. Besides the bumpy journey of their sometimes volatile relationship, the series looks at… View Post
American twins sisters and filmmakers Laura Wilson & Lisa Wilson share many things, including a passion for that literary puzzle to end all literary puzzles, the riddle of who wrote the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare. Their thoroughly researched documentary Last Will. & Testament featuring expert interviews plays like a thriller, as they rip the lid off a conspiracy… View Post
By Anne Brodie Nomadland on Disney+ is hard to talk about without disturbing its profundities. Since seeing the film last fall, and many times since, I’ve not looked forward to writing a review. It is a shame to reduce this incredible artistic achievement to a paragraph. There’s no way I can do it justice. It defies distillation because it is a VAST film on every… View Post
Benedict Cumberbatch appears to be an espionage film fan; he’s often played a spy. In Dominic Cooke’s fact-based spy thriller The Courier he is Greville Wynne, an English businessman who agrees to undertake secret missions in Moscow on behalf of the British spy agency and the American CIA. Things go swimmingly for a while until the Russians come after him…. View Post
Samantha Pymm and Sebastian Clovis are back for another season of Save My Reno, on HGTV Canada, giving homeowners on budgets renewed living spaces with ingenuity, tweaks, clever builds and lots of heart. Did you make a reno boo-boo, and can’t find your way out? This duo has you. What She Said’ Anne Brodie nabbed some tips from Sam:
Are you a family caregiver who is feeling overwhelmed? Maybe COVID-19 has complicated your life making it morestressful and causing you to question your ability to cope? Are you struggling to find the energy to get through theday? In the past year, more Canadians have taken on additional and exceptional responsibilities of caregiving for lovedones during incredibly challenging times. For… View Post