One of the most powerful anti-war films ever made turns forty on August 15th and director Francis Ford Coppola is releasing Apocalypse Now: Final Cut in limited theatrical and DVD release. He says the original was “too clipped”, REDUX is “too long”, and this new version, it’s the way he originally …
The Thriller Luce Raises Concerns Over the Fate of Child Soldiers Adopted into The West, a Bristling, Seismic Portrait of the Newsman We Need Now, Meek Mill Bombshell Documentary and the Canadian Angle, and Hold the Highest Grossing Film of All Time In Your Hand Tuesday!
Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Luce a child soldier adopted from Eritrea by an American couple played by Naomi Watts and Tom Roth. As they will tell anyone who’ll listen, they’ve handed their lives over to help him make the transition and it’s paid off – he’s an A student, athlete, good guy and school …
Even More Sixties Nostalgia as We Await Woodstock’s Fiftieth Anniversary, Films Tackling the Middle East, One with Humour and One with Hope, One from the POV of a Spy, Lucy Lawless is Back, Baby and David Lynch at Lightbox
You can catch Kate Wheeler’s daughter, actor-dancer Alex Beaton on W’s The Good Witch. Having seen Alex perform as a wee child onstage at the Shaw Festival, I’ve seen her grow and work hard and develop a very cool body of work. The Next Step made her a star with a huge international following and …
Meet Europe’s Last Female Bee Hunter, You’ll Be Awestruck
Honeyland, an award-winning documentary by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov offers a look inside a world few of us will ever see. An impoverished indigenous Turkish woman lives in a hut in the Macedonian mountains with her severely disabled mother. They have no electricity, water or roads but …
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Quentin Tarantino Messes with Us for the Ninth Time, a Canadian Space Tale Character Study About Longing, The True Story of the Hunt for Jihadi John, Female Led British Military Series, and Veronica Mars is Back in Town
I'm torn by “Quentin Tarantino’s Ninth Film”, the beautifully realised Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood. Set in LA in 1969 and crammed with references to every cultural thing that existed then – TV ads, celebrity, TV westerns, spaghetti westerns, pop music, grocery branding, karate, macho men, ad …