By Anne Brodie TIFF offers its final two chances to see fest fave, Chloe Zhao’s critically acclaimed film Hamnet today and tomorrow. Paul Mescal is William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley is his wife Agnes, with Emily Watson and Jacobi Jupe, set in 16th-century rural England. The …
Woman Power Rises to New Levels in Comedy, Drama and Action. Be Here For It.
By Anne Brodie June Squibb, the Oscar-nominated (Nebraska) 95-year-old finally gets her first lead, after 70 years! And she’s solid gold. What a woman! Squibb plays Thelma; she's fiercely independent and lives alone in the home she shared with her late husband. Her daughter (Parker Posey) …
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Anna Chancellor: I Don’t Act To Be Liked. I Don’t Act To Be Fancied. My Lady Jane’s Raunchy Mama Goes for Broke!
The wonderfully bawdy, purposely historically inaccurate, and utterly hilarious series My Lady Jane looks at a succession war in the Tudor English royal court of 1553. The magnificent Anna Chancellor is Lady Frances Grey, mother of Jane who, in this version is not executed at age 16 but goes on to …