The literary world changed for all time in 1943 with the release of The Little Prince by French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The provocative, metaphysical, hand-drawn novella on human existence was considered a children’s book about two people talking in the desert, but it proved to be a literary masterpiece. An aviator crash lands in the… View Post
D.C. has Wonder Woman but Marvel evens the score with the introduction of its first female superhero – Captain Marvel. Brie Larson stars in the titular role in this origins yarn of …well, I don’t want to give anything away but … of something BIG. Larson’s Carol is a creature of nascent power unleashed in a sudden explosive earth-shattering blast…. View Post
Unbeknownst to most of us, Netflix’s sci-fi series phenom The Umbrella Academy shot here in Toronto last spring under a strict veil of secrecy. The location was the historic Massy Mansion, transformed into a lavish, richly eccentric home of superheroes. The cast included, among others Ellen Page, Colm Feore, Robert Sheehan, Mar J, Blige, Sheila McCarthy and Tom Hopper and… View Post
Todd Miller’s Apollo 11, a “cinematic event 50 years in the making”, celebrates the space flight that put man on the moon and a reminds of America’s former dream of space dominance, fueled in part by the success of this 1969 mission. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed “the eagle”, an event televised around the world and declared… View Post
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s ambitious decades spanning film Never Look Away starring Tom Schilling, Saskia Rosendahl and Paula Beer follows a boy through pre-WWII Nazi East Germany to the Cold War in Dresden, a journey of discovery and reconciliation. A boy called Kurt Barnert escapes to the West but carries scars of the Nazi occupation and the breakdown, sterilization and death of… View Post
Isn’t It Romantic starring Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth, Adam Devine and Priyanka Chopra opened Wednesday purporting to take all the romcom clichés and kick ‘em to the curb. Wilson, the appealing Aussie comedienne produced the story about a woman who has no luck with men. She hits her head and passes out, and awakens in a fantasy version of New York… View Post