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By Anne Brodie Two orders of Meryl, please. The extraordinarily talented Ms. Streep id dramatic then comic in two wildly divergent films this weekend. First Meryl joins Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and Lucas Hedges in Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk an edgy, intimate wonder …
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A group of girls flies to a tropical healing retreat when their plane crashes. They don't know where they are, they've lost all their belongings, food, water, phones and warm clothing, and are alone. Desperation and paranoia escalates as strange things happen and what meagre supplies they have …
Continue Reading about Amazon Prime’s The Wilds Tells Chilling Tale of Human Experiment.
Dolly Parton Christmas in the Square on Netflix By Anne Brodie I can’t say adequately describe how extraordinary is FX' new three-part series Black Narcissus. Based on Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel about British nuns setting up in an abandoned castle in the Himalayas, it’s a stunningly …
The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix By Anne Brodie Netflix takes us to a time not unlike our own in the excellent film, The Trial of the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin revisits the protest-turned-riot outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago when high profile yippies Tom Hayden, Abbie …
By Anne Brodie Not long now till TIFF 20, pandemic edition, the 45th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Sept.10-19. It will be vastly different but with the creative use of digital resources and socially distanced in theatre screenings, as well as digital, it will still feel like …
