By Anne Brodie It landed Tuesday and most of you have seen it. Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is long. The opening two acts of more or less static, multi-face exposition, followed by long car chases in Rome and boat-and-bridge chases in Venice would have benefited from a fastidious …
Women Do It All, and So Does This 18th Century Polymath, a Man.
By Anne Brodie Twice Colonized opens this year's 30th annual Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27. Filmmaker Lin Alluna focused her lens for seven years on Inuit lawyer and sealskin clothes designer, Aaju Peter. She was indeed 'twice colonized". The first time Peter was taken alone as a child of …
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Ryan Murphy and the Stars of His Fact-Based Series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and The Watcher Spill the Beans on Fear.
By Anne Brodie Prolific producer and provocateur Ryan Murphy has created some of the most popular shows and series in the history of television and streaming including Glee, Pose, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Hollywood, Ratched, Feud, Scream Queens … you get the drift. Murphy's …
Viola Davis Unbound, Witty Agatha Christie Extension and TIFF Takeaways.
By Anne Brodie Gina Prince-Bythewood's gobsmacking take on the historic warrior women of west Africa - the Dahomey Amazons - feels like a superhero epic but with living, breathing, relatable humans. The Woman King. The warriors are phenomenal - Viola Davis is power personified as Nanisca, …
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Espionage Hacks, Schumer Shines, Caleb Landry-Jones Chills, Walken and Seymour and Bob’s Your Uncle
By Anne Brodie - OK folks I was not able to see Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once this week, and folks are raving about it. I'll get to it next week or my name's not Better Late Than Never. In theatres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g&t=15s Gary Oldman …