By Anne Brodie Filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s creepily chilling character study Guest of Honour follows a food inspector as he zeroes in on a couple running a restaurant. Egoyan once owned an eatery on Toronto’s Queen St West strip and the experience inspired this strange tale. Thewlis’ extraordinary performance as a man seeking revenge is quietly devastating and the universe Egoyan… View Post
By Anne Brodie Ghost BFF creator and star Vanessa Matsui is celebrating Season Two of her bold, fresh series now on WhoHaha and KindaTV that gets to the nitty gritty of the twenty something female experience. Matsui plays Amy and Kaniehtiio Horn is Tara, estranged friends who meet again after Tara’s death by suicide. She’s a ghost haunting Amy with… View Post
By Anne Brodie There are few filmmakers in Hollywood with Rod Lurie’s experience. A graduate of West Point and a soldier, he segued into film criticism in Los Angeles before finding his calling as a filmmaker. So it’s no wonder Lurie’s projects carry knowledge-based military and political themes; The Contender, a drama about a female U.S. Vice President, Deterrence in… View Post
By Anne Brodie Disney+’s Hamilton was to open next year but given the dearth of live entertainment in the age of COVID, the company offers it now to stream on Disney+. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical the brainchild of writer, musician, lyricist and singer-actor book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is out there for the masses. As you know… View Post
Peri Gilpin brings the charm and hustle to Old Guy a new six-part series on YouTube from Five Sisters Productions. Gilpin was submitted for an Outstanding Actress Emmy in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her work as force-of-nature talent agent Winnie. The Sisters’ father Roger Burton plays a fifties film and TV star who decides to reignite… View Post
By Anne Brodie It was an astounding turn of events, when in 1974 William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter Patty Hearst, a socialite and university student appeared armed with a rifle during a bank robbery apparently a willing part of the radical leftist terrorist group based on the Symbionese Liberation Army. Following a deadly shootout with police, she escaped with surviving members and… View Post