Canadian actor Vinessa Antoine isn’t a lawyer but she plays one on TV. CBC’s Diggstown, now in its second season, centers on Marcie Diggs, a woman of integrity and empathy, an intrepid lawyer working in a Halifax firm. She’s no-nonsense and holds the highest standards of her profession - not …
Ken Loach Looks at the Evils of the Gig Economy in the Powerful Sorry We Missed You
Ken Loach is a social realist filmmaker whose films reveal the plight of the working class in Britain. His sharp focus on social, economic and other injustices has opened eyes for five decades. They are urgent and of the moment. In Sorry We Missed you, Loach turns his lens on the gig economy, an …
We Celebrate International Women’s Day with Hillary, Run This Town and Spielberg’s Back.
by Anne Brodie We celebrate International Women’s Day with Hillary a fascinating documentary on one of the most influential women of modern times, Hillary Clinton. Hulu’s docuseries by Nanette Burstein captures the then-presidential candidate in 2016 leading up to, during and after she won but …
Jessica Matten Makes Television History in Tribal, APTN’s Stereotype-Busting Series
by Anne Brodie Jessica Matten is a Cree and Metis actor from Alberta best known for her work on Blackstone, Frontier, Burden of Truth and the influential short A Red Girl's Reasoning now being adapted as a feature film. Matten makes television history in the new series Tribal on APTN. She plays …
Niagara Noir, Classic Love Gone Wrong, Powerful Women in Literature and Policing, and a Few Breeders. Trust Me, It’s a Fun Week on Screens.
By Anne Brodie Disappearance at Clifton Hill based on a childhood experience of writer-director Albert Shin has a deliciously noir vibe, set in the height of Niagara Falls’ neon grotesquerie, the strip joints, diners, seedy motels with barely a glimpse of the natural wonder that made it famous. …