Clint Eastwood was intrigued by the real-life American heroes, two ex-military and one civilian whose fast reaction scotched the August 21st, 2015 terrorist attack on Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris. Eastwood decided against using big name actors, and that the real-life heroes would be more convincing and emotional. So he hired Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler to… View Post
By Dr. Karen Campbell – Sponsored by 3M Canada If you find yourself looking after your elderly parents while also supporting your own family, you are a member of the Sandwich Generation. According to Statistics Canada, there are more than 2 million Canadians in this situation. There’s no question that caring for an ageing parent can be very challenging, especially when… View Post
Winchester stars Helen Mirren stars as Sara, widow of the founder of the Winchester Gun company who, following his death was overcome by guilt and fear, connected to the souls of the people who died at the business end of the famed repeating Winchester rifle. In 1884, she moved from Connecticut to San Jose California and remodelled a stately Victorian Queen… View Post
The Inner Critic is as unique as you and I. This internal voice brings you down, makes you feel unworthy and keeps you small! It’s negative, pessimistic, cynical and self-defeating. How did it get here, you may say? Through habitual mind patterns of established belief systems. Perhaps someone that you looked up to or admired, like a parent or teacher… View Post
Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool looks at the real life romantic and sexual relationship between Hollywood noir queen and femme fatale Gloria Grahame and Peter Turner an aspiring Liverpool actor 28 years her junior. They met in his parent’s Liverpool boarding house in 1975 with a flirtation that morphed into a fiery sexual affair and they fell in love…. View Post
Diane Kruger won Best Actress at Berlin for her work in Fatih Akin’s thriller In the Fade set in contemporary and über rainy Hamburg. Katya, a native German and her Kurdish-German husband are trying to live a normal life following his drugs conviction and jail term. They’re doing well and have a young son but one morning she’s off to the spa… View Post