By Anne Brodie Kristen Stewart is absolutely, freakishly, Diana, Princess of Wales in the imagined and much-anticipated biopic Spencer. Diana's clipped, dense accented speech is perfect, her carriage, and physical tells and intense eyes, all revived in Stewart's spookily realistic portrayal of a …
Summer Blockbusters Redux, The Quiet Place II’s Quiet Canadian Rollout, We Love Ziwe and Cruella Slays!
By Anne Brodie Let's start with my favourite summer blockbusters! They don't make 'em like they used to, and that's a pity, so why not locate these masterpieces of boredom-busting? Check your streaming homes, pour some cool lemonade and get into the best of the best: Steven Spielberg's Jaws - …
We Offer The Works This Week – from Deep Freeze to Torrid Love!
Caoilinn Springall and George Clooney in The Midnight Sky By Anne Brodie Looks like Nomadland’s Frances McDormand has fierce competition for all the Best Actress awards in Viola Davis. Davis is unrecognizable as 20’s blues icon Ma Rainey, in George C. Wolfe’s film adaptation of August …
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Espionage & Botched Love in a Charming Coastal Irish Town in Acorn TV’s The South Westerlies
Orla Brady stars in The South Westerlies A working single mother is assigned to spy on a charging historic village on the southeast coast of Ireland, where she grew up. Little does she know how going back will turn her life and her grown son's life upside down. Industrial and highly personal …
The Toronto International Film Festival is Underway, Plus a RomCom, a BioPic, a Sci-Fi, Murder Most Foul, and Lacrosse.
By Anne Brodie One Night in Miami imagines a February night in 1964, in a motel room as Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Malcolm X (!) gather to celebrate Clay's win over Sonny Liston, making him the heavyweight champion of the world. Regina King directs this incredible story starring …