This is the time and the way to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s multi-Oscar nominated Phantom Thread as we head towards the Oscars. Daniel Day-Lewis is stunning as a controlling, precise, hard to please fashion designer who moulds a country girl into a suitable romantic partner. He then discovers that is was she who pulled the strings. Intriguing, maddening and borderline disturbing, Phantom… View Post
Before you think I am taunting General Motors, understand that this is in fact a salute to my 18-year old Pontiac Grand Am. She is on the verge of 300,000 Km, yet still purrs like the first day she came home with us. I bought this car in 2000, because my twins were about to start Drivers’ Ed, and there… View Post
Annihilation is a sci-fi adventure celebrating female strength like writer director Alex Garland’s last ground-breaking thriller Ex Machina. Scientist Natalie Portman’s biologist husband played by Oscar Isaac goes missing on a top-secret government mission to an unidentified environmental hotspot. He is reported dead, along with his military and science crew, the latest in a string of male crews to disappear… View Post
Marvel’s Black Panther rewrites film and cultural history, breathes new life into the superhero genre, I daresay reinvents it and breaks through all the glass ceilings. It is the first ever-black superhero film, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, and features an all-black cast, barring Andy Serkis and Morgan Freeman, including some of the hottest names in the industry like… View Post
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