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 …
You Like Movies? Then This Charmer is For You.
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 …
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Mel Brooks is Back, Baby!
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 …
A Girl Finds Hope, Two Women Tempt Fate and the Rest is a Drag!
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 …
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Bizarre, Heartwarming, Hilarious, Maddening! Let’s Open with an Exceptional Performance.
By Anne Brodie The Andrea Riseborough underground Oscar campaign - if unconventional - exists for a reason. The British actor is positively on fire in an extremely difficult, naked role in the fact-based elegy of an addict To Leslie. Made on a shoestring budget, and executive produced and …