By Anne Brodie Writer-Director Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up is the most terrifying comedy you may ever see, especially as a grain of truth is within. It’ll stir up laughs, smirks and shock but at its heart, it is a profoundly sad and important story. Jennifer Lawrence is Kate, an astronomy grad student working in a skywatch facility under Leonardo… View Post
Riz Ahmed plays Malick, a father on the edge in Encounter. He’s just returned home to the American southwest after his tenth tour of duty in Afghanistan, and he’s on a secret mission. He feels like an outsider, unappreciated by the people he fought to defend even as he’s keenly aware of a deadly new virus and an imminent alien… View Post
Presented by RBC Tracey Klettl and her family have a long history of guiding. Her people are the Aseniwuche Winewak, which means “Rocky Mountain People” in the Cree language. A mixture of Cree, Beaver, Ojibwa and Mohawk; Tracey’s family lived in the valley of the mountains in which is now Jasper National Park. For years they lived off the land… View Post
By Anne Brodie Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s epic family saga Hand of God set in his hometown of Naples, Italy is a soaring, joyous, tragic and uniquely beautiful cinematic experience, in select theatres Dec. 3 and on Netflix Dec. 15. It opens with an extraordinary extended drone pan over the city of Naples, its surrounding cliffs and hills, in total… View Post
Netflix’ Single All the Way an LGBTQ+ Christmas family movie for all ages is a winning holiday-flavoured romance for today’s audiences. Peter’s heading home to rural New Hampshire for the holidays, taking his best friend Nick along as his beard, so the family will stop trying to set him up with every Tom, Dick and Harry. The plan fails and… View Post
By Anne Brodie One of the most anticipated doc series this year has launched on Disney+. The Beatles: Get Back, a three-parter from Peter Jackson takes place in a latter-day recording session, compiled from 60 hours of verite footage shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in January 1969. The footage hasn’t been seen in fifty years and it’s a treasure trove! The… View Post