Everything Everywhere All At Once, the multiple award-winning indie concerns a Chinese family doing taxes and running a laundromat. The matriarch is sent on an otherworldy, action-packed reality test, with her timid husband on a collision course with, well, everything. Along the way, they encounter Dierdre the Bureaucrat and it all breaks loose, the universe is out of control. “The… View Post
Tracey Deer won international acclaim with her fact-based film Beans, about an indigenous mother and her two young daughters caught up in the landmark 1990 Oka Crisis in Quebec as Mohawks protested the destruction of their sacred burial grounds for a golf course. Deer directs episodes of Amazon Canada’s mystery series Three Pines, a police procedural, murder mystery series starring… View Post
By Anne Brodie To call Glass Onion fun is a spectacular understatement; it’s a danged blast. It’s bracing see-again fare to counter the serious and fraught awards entries. Two hours and twenty minutes whiz by at the speed of light and then when it ends, you don’t want it to end. It’s zingy, whipsmart and isn’t afraid to poke the… View Post
The multi-talented Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers – actor writer and director – joins Alfred Molina and the cast of Amazon Canada’s gripping anthology series Three Pines, based on author Louise Penny’s Detective Gamache mystery novels. Set in Quebec’s picturesque Eastern Townships in midwinter, Three Pines looks under the surface of a tiny village and a nearby reservation in the light of interrelated… View Post
Mickey Mouse stands alone as an enduring and powerful, evocative graphic image. There is no pop figure with his commercial, cultural or social impact. He conjures up different feelings for different folks but at its heart suggests, joy, laughter, fun, and pure entertainment, a reliable presence our entire lifetimes and it’s all there in the new documentary Mickey: The Story… View Post
By Anne Brodie The Menu follows Tyler and Margot (Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy) on a culinary adventure in a remote island restaurant with an excruciatingly high snob factor. The woman he was to bring dumped him, so she was replaced by Margot, who wasn’t aware until the chef (Ralph Fiennes) told her so. They join diners who have also… View Post