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. …
Black Panther Looks at a MASSIVE Weekend, Japanese Horror, Woman Power, Class Warfare, a Toronto Story and a Favourite Returns!
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 …
Real Life Becomes Art, an Oscar Worthy Heroine, Margot Robbie as Flopsy, Ropes and Romance, So Much Sex, Horror and Spectacle
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 …
Top Tips for the Sandwich Generation
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 …
Winchester Madness, a Streaming Delight, the Past Repeated, Spies to the Left and Right, Travel to U.K. TV Villages, and TIFF Cinematheque’s Guy Who Just Couldn’t Help Himself
Winchester stars Helen Mirren stars as Sara, widow of the founder of the Winchester Gun company who, following his death was overcome by guilt and fear, connected to the souls of the people who died at the business end of the famed repeating Winchester rifle. In 1884, she moved from Connecticut to …