Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Luce a child soldier adopted from Eritrea by an American couple played by Naomi Watts and Tom Roth. As they will tell anyone who’ll listen, they’ve handed their lives over to help him make the transition and it’s paid off – he’s an A student, athlete, good guy and school leader. So why doesn’t History and Government… View Post
You can catch Kate Wheeler’s daughter, actor-dancer Alex Beaton on W’s The Good Witch. Having seen Alex perform as a wee child onstage at the Shaw Festival, I’ve seen her grow and work hard and develop a very cool body of work. The Next Step made her a star with a huge international following and now she’s taking more grown-up roles…. View Post
Honeyland, an award-winning documentary by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov offers a look inside a world few of us will ever see. An impoverished indigenous Turkish woman lives in a hut in the Macedonian mountains with her severely disabled mother. They have no electricity, water or roads but she can’t move away. But Haditze Muratova is resilient and positive and makes the most of… View Post
I’m torn by “Quentin Tarantino’s Ninth Film”, the beautifully realised Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. Set in LA in 1969 and crammed with references to every cultural thing that existed then – TV ads, celebrity, TV westerns, spaghetti westerns, pop music, grocery branding, karate, macho men, ad infinitum, Tarantino dares to reimagine one of the most shocking crimes of that… View Post
Actor Graham Greene is nothing short of an arts phenomenon. Having worked steadily in film, TV and spoken word since 1979 and in theatre longer, the Oscar nominated, Oneida-Canadian has played every ethnicity, in all kinds of genres and mediums, a familiar face around the world. In 2015, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada. Greene stars… View Post
Disney reimagines The Lion King using photo-realistic animation, a technology far beyond the original animated version while not quite using talking animals. It’s a powerful and often frightening experience for very young children telling the familiar story about a boy and his kingdom but as Disney movies usually indicate, life is unpredictable. Diverse animals live together ruled by the wise lion Mufasa… View Post