What She Said

Canadian Film Festival Director Ashleigh Rains on Super Channel Partnership and the Intriguing Lineup, 2021.

in Entertainment, What She Said on 04/02/21

The Canadian Film Festival is underway. Its latest and second pandemic version is now available to all Super Channel subscribers across the country. Watch carefully curated new Canadian films at home, and enjoy conversation, Q and As and get a feel for what Canada’s film artists are thinking about these days. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Director Ashleigh… View Post

Lucas Hedges’ Confident, Quiet Excellence in French Exit.

in Entertainment, What She Said on 04/02/21

Lucas Hedges plays Michelle Pfieffer’s son in French Exit, a dark comedy about a once wealthy Montreal family that’s hit rock bottom. The pair solve their problems by moving to Paris! and discover another way of living that may turn their lives around for the better. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Hedges.

Created Monsters and Natural Ones, the Pfieffer Effect, Murder on the Hippie Trail, and Star Wars Bounty.

in Entertainment, What She Said on 04/02/21

By Anne Brodie Godzilla vs. Kong has earned megabucks overseas in early release and it’s clearly going to do the same here albeit with fewer theatre seats available here. But it seems the tentpole is back with a vengeance. I am torn for the usual reasons around fantasy battle films. First, the emotional through-line is there, around our sentimental feelings… View Post

Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas on the Horrors of Racism in Amazon Prime’s anthology Them

in Entertainment, What She Said on 03/29/21

How would it feel as a Black family moving into an all white LA suburb in the fifties? Amazon Prime’s limited hate anthology Them, from Little Marvin, imagines a world of horror as experienced by the family, in reality and fantasy. Stars Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas say it was about creating safe spaces onset. What She Said’ Anne Brodie… View Post

Alison Pill is a Terrifying White Suburban in Amazon Prime’s Horror Series Them.

in Entertainment, What She Said on 03/29/21

It’s the American suburbs in the 50s in Amazon Prime’s Them, as a Black family moves in. The ugly spectre of racism rears its head via micro-aggressions, ill intent and organised attempts to drive them out or crazy in Little Marvin’s “hate anthology”. Alison Pill plays the alpha dog of suburban wives as she campaigns to clean up the neighbourhood…. View Post

Inendi: Sarain Fox’Mission to Remember

in Entertainment, What She Said on 03/26/21

Anishinaabe actress, writer and activist Sarain Fox travelled to Northern Ontario to film her grandmother Mary Bell telling stories before it was too late. Indigenous populations are especially vulnerable to COVID 19 and Fox wanted to learn about “Auntie’s” experiences in residential schools and the repercussions through her life. These schools were commonplace in Canada from the 1880s until a… View Post