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Snow!!!!

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Hi, friends. No film TV and streaming review this week. I’m shovelling, just like you! 🙂

Revisiting a Cinematic Giant Writ Large, Love Hurts, Then There’s Hallmark Love, Home Love, Laverne Cox Love and an Atomic Shocker.

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By Anne Brodie Thrilled to report that the impossible brilliance of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite is back on the big(gest) screen. Six years after sweeping the Oscars and the globe, it returns as an IMAX exclusive today. Bong Joon-Ho’s nearly perfect, nerve-rattling comedy thriller Parasite is a shock to the system, outrageous, comic, deadly serious and genre-bending, precise, poetic and mathematical,… View Post

Resistance, Murder, Music, Winter in Winnipeg and Wedding Whoopsies.

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By Anne Brodie Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres has won multiple awards and nominations for her role as a wife and mother in Walter Salles I’m Still Here.  Her sensitive yet muscular portrayal of Eunice, horrified by her former left wing congressman husband’s sudden disappearance under Brazil’s military dictatorship is remarkable. She must hide her fear to care for her five… View Post

Architecture As Personality, Mike Leigh’s Latest and Last, and Detectives Redux.

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By Anne Brodie Do you have a short attention span? Then take a miss on The Brutalist. If you can sit for 3.5 hours and watch an engrossing, challenging, beautifully made biopic that embraces intellect, design, sexuality, and complexity, this is for you. Adrien Brody as cutting-edge Hungarian architect László Toth is a triumph, a performance that grabbed him a… View Post

Embracing Truth and Values in an Age of Manipulation

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Well, this is it, we are stepping into what can best be described as the largest psychology experiment in human history. To be sure, nothing going forward from January 20th, 2025 will be the status quo to us. It’s all going to change and acknowledging that, as painful as it may be, is the first step in preparing ourselves for… View Post

In Praise of Pamela Anderson, a Few Good Films and Murdoch’s 300th Mystery.

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By Anne Brodie Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl is a superior character study, with Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a 57-year-old Las Vegas strip dancer whose show is closing after 30 years. Anderson’s sublime, gut wrenching performance firmly reshapes her career and opens important new opportunities. Her flawless work in a show about ageing in a youth obsessed culture is mesmerising…. View Post