By Anne Brodie TIFF Bell Lightbox celebrates Sarah Polley and Other Stories with a Cinemateque Spotlight programme Dec 3 - 17. All of Polley's films will be shown with three others, handpicked and introduced by Polley, including favourites Orlando (more on Tilda Swinton below) and Dog Day …
Everything Everywhere All At Once Redux.
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 …
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Tracey Deer Directs Episodes of Three Pines That Reflect a Disturbing Canadian Reality.
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 …
Peeling Back a Glass Onion, One’s Clothes, Societal Restrictions and Spielberg’s Past. Plus a Donkey.
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, …
Good and Evil Duke it Out in Prime Video’s Amazon Canada Series Three Pines. Meet Star Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.
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, …