Montreal’s Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project’s a classic business thriller set in a world that’s unfamiliar to most of us, high stakes trading. It tells a gripping, fast-moving story that reveals the dark underside of institutions we depend upon. Jesse Eisenberg plays a frenetic Wall Street trader with a gift for persuasion who arrives at a scheme to make mega millions, damn… View Post
One of my favourite days on our national film calendar is just a month away. National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) is April 17. Prepare to be entertained by Canadian films to be shown in community spaces, free of charge from sea to sea to sea in “the world’s largest film festival”. Eight hundred Canadian films will be screened with a… View Post
Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek star in Kim Nguyen’s latest film, a gripping business thriller about two cousins who set out to do the impossible, no matter what it takes. Vince and Anton have discovered a genius way to get crucial trading information from Kansas to New York in milliseconds. They’ll plant an underground trail of fibre optics… View Post
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