It’s not just Natalie Portman’s astounding performance in Jackie that makes this fictional biopic so compelling – it’s the storytelling. Director Pablo Lorrain’s brutalist approach changes our idea of who Jacqueline Kennedy may have been. We follow her in the aftermath of JFK’s assassination more angered than sad, dominating the farewell ceremonies. She is portrayed as a force of nature… View Post
Cinematheque at TIFF Bell Lightbox Until Dec 23rd The late, great German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s contributions to film have been widely acknowledged. The cinematic universe he creates is ordinary and extraordinary, melodramatic and mundane, operatic and obtuse, cruel and loving, contradictory and rare. His films are treasures. They are peopled with troubled souls in German cities navigating the aftermath… View Post
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” — Leon C. Megginson This was me, almost seven years ago. An orange sized tumour had been removed from the mesenteric wall of my small intestine after 6 hours in the OR. At this… View Post
Jessica Chastain presents a new kind of feminine hero in Miss Sloane – or anti-hero depending on your point of view. She’s extraordinary and brilliant, a bruisingly cunning woman in a powerful position as an anti-gun lobbyist. She moves forward like a shark, never looking at the damage she’s caused just off to the side. Miss Sloane looks only forward,… View Post
When the first snowflakes fly, Canadians react in two different ways. “Yikes it’s snowing; I’d better book a sun holiday!”, or “Yay it’s snowing; I’d better book a ski holiday!” Whether the flurries make you run for your swimsuit or dash for your snowsuit, both sun and ski holidays have their up sides, and things you want to consider before… View Post
When we are trying to lose weight so often we are able to crush cravings for a couple of weeks or months but then our cravings hit us full force and we end up in a cycle of self-sabotage and yo-yo dieting. As the women enter my free and private community most of them perceive their cravings as their enemy.Sound familiar?… View Post