By Anne Brodie Jude Law and Carrie Coon are Rory and Allison, a well-to-do eighties couple with two children. He announces one night that they’re moving to London where he can work a big business deal, even if he can’t explain it to her. Allison reluctantly agrees to abandon their “forever” home if she can bring her beloved horse. Rory… View Post
Robert Pattinson goes against type as a wicked evangelistic preacher in Antonio Campos’s stunning look at faith and hypocrisy. The all-star cast features Tom Holland, Sebastian Stan, Riley Keough, Mia Wasikowska, Haley Bennett and Bill Skarsgård. What She Said’ Anne Brodie spoke with Campos, the writer and director.
By Anne Brodie One Night in Miami imagines a February night in 1964, in a motel room as Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Malcolm X (!) gather to celebrate Clay’s win over Sonny Liston, making him the heavyweight champion of the world. Regina King directs this incredible story starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Joaquina… View Post
By Anne Brodie Not long now till TIFF 20, pandemic edition, the 45th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Sept.10-19. It will be vastly different but with the creative use of digital resources and socially distanced in theatre screenings, as well as digital, it will still feel like Toronto and the world’s unique celebration of film. David Byrne’s American Utopia kicks things… View Post
Acorn’s miniseries The Sounds, finds a Canadian woman excited to travel from Vancouver to New Zealand to join her husband and launch a business. But just days after her arrival he disappears, and the body of a woman murdered 15 years earlier is discovered. The idyllic, majestic New Zealand landscape can’t hide the dark secrets that lie below the surface… View Post
By Anne Brodie Two major releases this week, as different as chalk and cheese, Bill & Ted Face the Music, and Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited Tenet. And yet so very similar. Both depend upon the plastic nature of time and space, as our protagonists time travel to find, hide, and fix things. What a spectacular co-incidence! Denzel’s boy and potential award season… View Post