By Anne Brodie But first, lately, I’ve become obsessed with the late Diana Vreeland, iconoclast and longtime editor of Harper’s Bazaar and later Vogue, who then turned the staid Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its head. Prime Video has the 2011 doc Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel a heady, spicy, and utterly joyous experience,… View Post
Lily Gao Brittany Bristow Camille Stopps Chantel Riley Nicole, Sydney, Lauren, and Tara Nicole met ten years ago at a New Year’s Eve party and bonded over the precarious state of their love lives. They vow to be there for one another when love goes wrong and sure enough, ten years later, each calls the club for help. In four… View Post
By Anne Brodie There are many opportunities to watch and celebrate Black content during Black History Month. TIFF Bell Lightbox offers the 30th-anniversary restoration of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, the 25th-anniversary restoration of Hype Williams’ Belly. Also a 1990s Black cinema retrospective and special events and speakers, and available to watch online are Beba Breaking, Learn to Swim, Nope, Test… View Post
By Anne Brodie Pamela: a Love Story on Netflix today documents the former Baywatch babe these days, living with her sons Dylan and Jason Lee on Vancouver Island. No makeup, loose pandemic clothes, and a new frame of mind. She’s alone after five headline-grabbing marriages, and she was a hit last year in the Broadway production of Chicago, she’s savvy… View Post
By Anne Brodie Malcom is Missing, Robert Osborne and Jari Osborne’s chilling documentary feature plays one night only this Sunday at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Port Hope, Ontario mother Brooke Mullins was alarmed when her father Malcom Madsen failed to return calls on his annual trip to Mexico in 2018. He spent half the year at his beloved beach… View Post
By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley’s achingly poignant Women Talking, based on the book by ex-Mennonite Miriam Toews tells the fact-based story of women in an ultra-conservative religious colony in South America. They are victims of daily rapes, unwanted pregnancies, and physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their fathers, brothers and sons. The men, in prison, until they’re to… View Post