By Anne Brodie Well, you have probably watched/binged all three episodes of Harry & Meghan available now on Netflix. The final three show up next Thursday. Liz Garbus certainly closes ranks with the formerly Royal scallywags and you have reached your own conclusions as to what version of their story you like. Oddly, or in a whizbang pr move, reports… View Post
Over the past few months, my LinkedIn feed has been inundated with layoff announcements. It seems as though one after another I’m seeing my friends, colleagues, and folks in my network announce that their role has been eliminated in yet another round of layoffs that has hit the tech sector hard. This past summer I was one of those who… View Post
Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne plays a difficult role in Netflix’ fact-based film The Good Nurse. He is Charlie Cullen, a gentle, smiling, apparently empathetic new hire at Oakfield Hospital in New Jersey, following a string of jobs in hospitals across the US. He bonds with nurse Amy Loughren played by Jessica Chastain, helping her navigate work/life difficulties and they become… View Post
By Anne Brodie TIFF Bell Lightbox celebrates Sarah Polley and Other Stories with a Cinemateque Spotlight programme Dec 3 – 17. All of Polley’s films will be shown with three others, handpicked and introduced by Polley, including favourites Orlando (more on Tilda Swinton below) and Dog Day Afternoon. Polley will participate in a live Q&A following the screening of her… View Post
Everything Everywhere All At Once, the multiple award-winning indie concerns a Chinese family doing taxes and running a laundromat. The matriarch is sent on an otherworldy, action-packed reality test, with her timid husband on a collision course with, well, everything. Along the way, they encounter Dierdre the Bureaucrat and it all breaks loose, the universe is out of control. “The… View Post
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