https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YbTPDWQLhM KIm Cattrall may not be in the SATC universe these days but she is evergreen thanks to her star turn as Emily French a wealthy older woman looking for young male company in a sizzling new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery The Witness …
Rod Lurie’s The Outpost, The Painted Bird’s Brutal Beauty, a Working Man’s Elegy But Fun Stuff Too!
By Anne Brodie Rod Lurie’s The Outpost is finally available on VOD in Canada as of Tuesday. Based on Jake Tapper’s book of the same name, it’s a military thriller covering events of The Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan in 2009 when US soldiers were trapped in a geographically hazardous valley, …
Spike Lee’s Vietnam Elegy, Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and an Agatha Christie Revival
By Anne Brodie Spike Lee looks at the tragic history of African Americans in US wars in his stirring 2.5 hour Da 5 Bloods. Set within the story of four Vietnam veterans (Clarke Peters, Delroy Lindo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., and Norm Lewis) returning to ‘Nam to claim the remains of their comrade …
Women Look After Themselves – Horror, Crime, Satanism and the Search for Justice.
By Anne Brodie First Cow is a deceptively simply told fable that gets under the skin and lingers. Two men in the Klondike have vague dreams of cashing in on the 1896 gold rush. Kelly Reichardt whose films I deeply admire takes us back in time to the brutal unforgiving north full of dreamers …