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 …
Woman Power! Laughs, Shocks, Art and Love
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 …
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Charlotte Kavanagh on Recreating 1954 with Song n’ Dance in Grease Prequel: Rise of the Pink Ladies
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'. …
The Good, the Bad and the Ugh-ly. Entertainment in Short
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 …
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Luciane Buchanan on Her Nerve-Shattering Espionage Thriller The Night Agent
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 …
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