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By Anne Brodie Netflix paid tribute to the late, great and much missed Catherine O’Hara highlighting the beloved 2000 mockumentary Best in Show on the service, one of her funniest turns as a dog mad competitor at the renowned Mayflower Dog Show. A comedy classic written and directed by …
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By Anne Brodie Mamoru Hosoda’s Hamlet adjacent Scarlet (Mana Ashida), is a visual knockout, an animated story so powerfully expressed that it gave me serious shivers. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark in the 1600s, and then Purgatory, it closely mirrors Shakespeare’s Hamlet, albeit through a …
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By Anne Brodie The fact-based drama Pike River revives one of the worst disasters in New Zealand’s history and the shocking aftermath. On Nov. 19 2010, near Greymouth, twenty-nine miners died in a mine explosion, the legacy of corporate carelessness and failure to secure the men and the mine. …
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By Anne Brodie Super Channel goes full-on romance with 10 series and movies stretching out Valentine’s Day to a month, via Super Channel Heart & Home and Super Channel Fuse. https://youtu.be/uHIfjV3k69M Love Unleashed on Super Channel Heart & Home and TVOD Feb 6. A woman discovers …
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By Anne Brodie Ladies over forty, there’s finally a highly entertaining series aimed squarely at us and boy does it hit! Right in the heart and brain. The Riot Women concerns four women, empty nesters, in different marital places and at loose ends as to how to re-ignite their lives. They are …
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