Stage Mother from Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald shows the life-changing good that can come from opening our minds. The wonderful Aussie actor Jacki Weaver plays Maybelline, a conservative, Texas Baptist church-choir director whose estranged son dies, leaving her his San Francisco drag bar. Maybelline played by the wonderful Aussie actor, Jacki Weaver, inherits her recently deceased son’s drag club. She travels… View Post
By Anne Brodie Petite Australian actor Jacki Weaver, twice an Academy Award nominee, has performed on stage and screen in more than a thousand productions around the world. Weaver shot the endearing dramedy Stage Mother in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She plays a conservative Southern Baptist choir mistress who inherits her estranged but much-loved son’s drag bar. Once the shock wears… View Post
By Anne Brodie Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss set out to capture the annual Texas Boys State, a conservative think tank for gifted boys in which they create a government and pass laws. Personalities, raging hormones, the spirit of competition, and the complexities of the American government system make this a polarising must-see. It will raise strong emotions, so be prepared…. View Post
By Anne Brodie China’s spectacular Enter The Forbidden City available on Blu-ray, DVD and Streaming August 18 is a culturally important film, with a majestic, timeless vibe and in style, reminiscent of Martin Scorsese’s work. It has authority, power and movement, attention to atmospheric and artistic detail, multiple levels of action and depth of focus. It’s complex and stimulating and unusual to… View Post
By Anne Brodie Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke are SpongeBob and Patrick and the adventure they’re about to embark on is outrageous! Outrageously funny, sly, and nutty! SpongeBob and Patrick are off to The Lost City of Atlantic City to rescue Gary the Snail who is being used as face cream by the uber vain King Poseidon. As much a… View Post
By Anne Brodie Shalini Bathina and Phillip Johnson Richardson are the friends you want, unwaveringly loyal, bright, interesting and intriguingly complicated. The new series Little Voice with Brittany O’Grady follows twenty-somethings coming of age in the city, bound by music and friendship.