By Anne Brodie The legendary Sophia Loren celebrates sixty years as an actor this year. And after a ten-year absence from the screen returns with a stunning, Oscar-worthy performance in her son Edoardo Ponti’s drama The Life Ahead. An Oscar to join the one she won for Two Women, as the first woman to win Best Actress for a foreign… View Post
By Anne Brodie Happy Place based on Pamela Mala Sinha’s play about women in a care facility suffering from trauma. Each one attempted suicide. As dark as it sounds, and as realistic as director Helen Shaver envisioned the film, these are strong women seeking relief from the pain who must finds their hope. Happy Place is realistic and deeply engaging… View Post
By Anne Brodie Do you remember the old days when the US had Presidents of empathy and dignity, people we could look up to? Remember Jimmy Carter (1977 – 1981) who at 96, is still building houses with his wife for Habitat for Humanity as he’s done for the last forty years? He was a gentle, wise man who grew… View Post
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It’s hard to describe the second film from Borat, the Kazakh TV personality who graced us with his big-screen presence fourteen years ago but trust me, its pure iconoclastic joy. Watch Mike Pence’ face as Borat crashes a rally disguised as Donald… View Post
By Aly Pain I was a Pinterest Mom, long before Pinterest was a thing, creating chore chart for the fridge when our boys were young. Age-appropriate chores were written out and divided up as our boys proudly marked off the boxes, creating a visual indication of their growing independence with colourful stickers worthy of an Instagram post. It worked fabulously!… View Post
Director Lydia Dean Pilcher and writer Ginny Mohler’s film Radium Girls starring Joey King and Abby Quinn is based on the true story of sisters in 1928 New Jersey who blew the whistle on a shocking case of industrial poisoning. 4,000 young women in the U.S. and Canada worked as clock painters using the newly discovered element radium which makes… View Post