Top - Sonya Cywink Bottom - Meggie Cywink and Connie Walker By Anne Brodie In 1994, 31-year old, pregnant Sonya Cywink from the Whitefish First Nation near Sudbury, was found murdered in a forest near London, Ontario. Thirty-one years later the case remains unsolved. Cywink's …
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna and Alec Baldwin Debuts Tomorrow.
By Anne Brodie Rachel Mason’s excruciatingly revealing documentary Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna lays out the circumstances of the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, Director of Photography on the doomed Alec Baldwin western Rust. Mason, a close friend of Halyna was asked by Hutchins’ …
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Atom Egoyan’s Violent Opera, Quebecker Goes Native, Meghan Markle FINALLY Releases Her Lifestyle Series and …… Where Oscar’s Faves Are Streaming NOW!
By Anne Brodie Atom Egoyan revisits opera in Seven Veils, the story of Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) who is restaging the opera Salome originated by her late, long-ago mentor. Richard Strauss’ 1905 production, based on Oscar Wilde's play, is shockingly violent. Salome, an ancient ruler's …
Atom Egoyan’s Dark Opera Tale in Theatres March 7.
Amanda Seyfried stars in Seven Veils, Egoyan's adaptation of the Bible story, play, and opera on the brutal tragedy Salome. What She Said' Anne Brodie spoke with Egoyan. https://youtu.be/6yaRh5V_Xyw?list=PLPX8YrgAwWkoVCRYgQcpE7Pcp1LAWZkJ2 …
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A Packed Week in Film, TV and Streaming. So You Don’t Have to Shovel.
By Anne Brodie The title suggests a comedy but My Dead Friend Zoe, while there are amusing, ironic moments, is a moving and powerful story of friendship between two US military women in a Middle East warzone. Not a comedy, but a heartfelt film in theatres across Canada on Feb 28. Gifted actor …
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