Rosamund Pike bilks the elderly in her role as a Professional Legal Guardian in J Blakeson’s I Care a Lot. Her latest victim, a healthy and functioning woman living alone, played by Dianne Wiest, is helpless as Pike’s abuser systematically strips her of all she owns. The film shows how the serial legal thief traps her victims, all within the… View Post
By Anne Brodie Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah an intense fact-based chapter in the life of the Black Panther is important. Party Chairman Fred Hampton was less famous than, say, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton or Malcolm X during the burgeoning civil rights movement of the 60s. But that in part is because… View Post
British actor Juno Temple goes for broke in Palmer. She pays an addict who lives with her son and an abusive partner in a trailer woman who abandons her 7-year old for weeks at a time, leaving a neighbour to care for him. The character gave Temple the chance to explore all new aspects of acting. What She Said’ Anne… View Post
British breakout star Olivia Cooke impresses in Little Fish as Emma, an English woman living in an American city with her partner played by Jack O’Connell. They are sorely tested when a memory loss pandemic strikes and spins wildly out of control. It’s a raw and powerful story on every level. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Cooke from… View Post
Michael Caton is the quiet and embittered brother of Sam Neill in Rams; they share a sheep farm but haven’t spoken in forty years. The relationship is sorely tested when a sheep virus sweeps their valley forcing them to re-examine their lives. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Caton from his home in Eastern Australia about this engaging comedy-drama.