Sara Collin’s award-winning novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton, the LGBTQ+ drama/mystery story of an enslaved woman taken from Bermuda to London in 1825 was envisioned as a Black Gothic romance in the Wuthering Heights style. The themes of slavery, patriarchy, feminism, and culture are front and centre. So in London, Langton is surprised to meet a free Black man… View Post
By Anne Brodie Toronto’s Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema hosts the 20th annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival in person in Toronto In Person March 8 – 12 and digitally across Canada March 13 – 19. All tickets are free. Its the revered annual celebration of the world’s best documentary features and shorts shining light on timely real-world experiences… View Post
Sara Collins’ bestseller The Confessions of Frannie Langton, now a BritBox four-part series stars Karla-Simone Spence, follows the strange life of an enslaved West Indies woman Frannie, taken by her owner in 1825 to serve in the home of a wealthy family in London. The lady of the house, Madame Marguerite (Sophie Cookson) is sympathetic to Langton who suffers overt,… View Post
Filmmaker Chandler Levack looks to her early job as a Blockbuster clerk and to her hometown of Burlington as inspiration for her wonderfully witty and warm comedy I Like Movies. We follow Lawrence (Isaiah Lehtinen), a movie nut who prefers to watch films over just about everything else in life. He has an impressive and sophisticated film knowledge base but… View Post
By Anne Brodie Disney+ has imposed strict embargos on plot points and guest stars in Mel Brooks’ comedy series History of the World, Part II, available Monday. That’s 40 years after his original film was released in theatres. Awesome then, awesome now! Sketches illustrating key moments in human history get that Brookes Touch, outrageous, gently searing (?), satirical, timely, and… View Post
By Anne Brodie Young actor Catherine Clinch is Cáit, The Quiet Girl and she will break your heart. She is 9 years old and one of four girls born to a poor Irish family expecting a fifth child, victims of the unspoken Roman Catholic doctrinal ban on birth control. It’s rural Ireland, 1981 the man of the house is a… View Post