By Anne Brodie In 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot to death on the set of Rust when Alec Baldwin fired his prop gun that was loaded with a live round. Protocol calls for guns on movie sets to be loaded with dummies - no live ammunition, just a big bang. But Baldwin's gun contained …
Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna and Alec Baldwin Debuts Tomorrow.
By Anne Brodie Rachel Mason’s excruciatingly revealing documentary Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna lays out the circumstances of the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, Director of Photography on the doomed Alec Baldwin western Rust. Mason, a close friend of Halyna was asked by Hutchins’ …
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Extra-Large Roundup of Films, TV, Streaming. Settle in – Gems to Be Had.
By Anne Brodie Because Clement Virgo's family drama Brother is so beautifully made, and the performers give their all, it is an exquisitely painful, provocative experience and cuts deep. Marsha (Marsha Stephanie Blake) and her sons Michael (Lamar Johnson) and Francis (Aaron Pierre) live in a …
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We Preview TIFF Films For You, a Brooding Drama, a Meaningful Musical and Recalling 9/11.
By Anne Brodie - We have Toronto International Film Festival - TIFF to you! - capsule reviews to help make your viewing choices in person or on https://digital.tiff.net/ Danis Goulet's premieres her extraordinary drama Night Raiders at TIFF, a disturbing story paralleling the traumas of the …
Gangs, Saints, Revolting Babies, Teen Angst and Hysterical Motherland!
Sundance Now's Motherland By Anne Brodie Steven Soderberg's noir period gang comedy No Sudden Move on Crave owes a huge debt to Noah Hawley's Fargo Season 4. Set amidst Black and Italian gangsters in the fifties, it's shot similarly with similar funky period music given a cool update, …
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