By Anne Brodie Sometimes a movie will knock you flat out. The King Tide is such a film. It's set on a wild, windy isolated island off Newfoundland and Labrador, where its population origins are cloaked in mystery. It’s a closed society, “mainlanders” are to be shunned and discouraged from showing …
Global Journeys and Personal Insights: From Ireland to the Silver Screen and Beyond
Happy Earth Day to those who celebrate. The significance of this day is becoming clearer as the years go by. We are now in a climate emergency, and there is nowhere on earth that is not being severely impacted by this escalating event. As I scrolled through pictures from my travels this morning, I …
Demystifying the Gender Wage Gap: Why This Relic of the Past Must Die
What is the gender wage gap and why does it exist? If you arrived here through a search on Beyoncé’s internet and don’t want to linger, the short answer is patriarchy. If you’re invested and committed to change, there's a longer, more tangled story we need to unravel if we're going to crush this …
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Global Female Perspectives, Star Crossed Lovers, Cross-Dressing Stars, a WWII Heroine, Food, and Hot Docs …
By Anne Brodie - Léa Seydoux and George MacKay star in The Beast, from Bertrand Bonello, as lovers who meet over a century of time space, and emotion but never quite gel. Both suffer from anxiety, and panic as catastrophes happen, again and again, 1910, 1990s, 2044, wherever their narrative lands …
The Fact-Based Irena’s Vow Shines a Light on a Polish Nurse’ Extraordinary Heroism in WWII Nazi-Occupied Warsaw. Sophie Nélisse is Irene Gut Opdyke, Who Singlehandedly Saved Dozens of Jewish Lives.
The incredible story of nineteen-year-old Irena Gut only recently came to light, decades after the events of WWII. Gut was taken prisoner by the Nazis and assigned to be housekeeper and cook to an SS Commander. That’s when she decided to take a dozen Jewish prisoners, who would have been caught up …