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
The Canadian government Residential Schools policy instituted in the 1870s permanently separated indigenous children from their families and immersed them in white culture. Religious schools were set up to convert them to Euro-Canadians, taking their heritage, language, sense of belonging, and connection to blood families. The programme ended in 1996 and affected 150,000 Indian, Inuit, and Métis children, and left… View Post
Colm Feore, the formidable stage and screen actor born in America but whom we hold dear as a fellow Canadian, is one of our busiest artists with a history of great performances. He currently stars in the slow burn psychological horror thriller The Prodigy, with Taylor Schilling and ten-year-old Jackson Robert Scott and will soon be seen in Netflix sci-fi series The… View Post
Nature imitates art for Liam Neeson and Mads Mikkelsen it two bone-chilling high north thrillers. They’re on missions from which they refuse to waiver, one revenge the other survival. Arctic opens a moment after Polar pilot Mikkelsen’s plane crashes in a wind-whipped frozen mountainous wasteland. Common sense and barebones supplies keep him going until a small plane coming to his rescue crashes…. View Post