David Cronenberg’s iconic 1988 film Dead Ringers starred Jeremy Irons as twin gynecological surgeons who switch personalities at will while carrying out horrifically gory operations. Prime Video’s new series Dead Ringers re-imagines the story with Rachel Weisz as the twins in a new universe that holds the old and twists it for an all-new experience. What She Said’ Anne Brodie… View Post
Filmmaker – and architect – Catherine Hardwicke reteamed with Toni Collette and flew to Italy’s wine country to make Mafia Mamma, a rom-com with mob hits. Colette plays an American housewife and mother who inherits a mafia empire when her grandfather dies. Completely unprepared for this sort of world, all she wants is to eat, pray and love in Italy… View Post
By Anne Brodie Kelly Reichardt’s fourth collaboration with Michelle Williams Showing Up is in many ways removed from the three prior. Its power and subtlety are there but come late in the story, preceded by a long, meditative setup. Williams is Lizzy, a sculptor of female figures in flights of fancy; her first major show is coming up in a… View Post
Photo Credit: Richie Lubaton Forty-five years after Grease, the landmark John Travolta Olivia Newton-John musical, Paramount+ returns, four years prior to the original film’s time period. It’s back to Rydell High where tweenagers battle it out for social supremacy through singin’ and dancin’. It’s one of the most joyous series this season, irresistible to music lovers and fans of the… View Post
By Anne Brodie Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based actor, and filmmaker Michael Zelniker traversed Canada’s massive boreal forest to shine a light on an urgent environmental problem. Our boreal forest, the biggest in the world and the “lungs of the planet”, below the Arctic, is home to countless species of flora and fauna. It absorbs CO2 and keeps healthy the oldest living… View Post
When tech innovator Rose declares bankruptcy, she is to move into her aunt and uncle’s remote home. She arrives to find they’re under attack by heavily armed men in black. Her aunt gives her instructions to get help, she leaves, makes a phone call and reaches the night agent in the White House. Rose and Pete (Luciane Buchanan and Gabriel… View Post