Sara Collins' bestseller The Confessions of Frannie Langton, now a BritBox four-part series stars Karla-Simone Spence, follows the strange life of an enslaved West Indies woman Frannie, taken by her owner in 1825 to serve in the home of a wealthy family in London. The lady of the house, Madame …
A Girl Finds Hope, Two Women Tempt Fate and the Rest is a Drag!
By Anne Brodie Young actor Catherine Clinch is Cáit, The Quiet Girl and she will break your heart. She is 9 years old and one of four girls born to a poor Irish family expecting a fifth child, victims of the unspoken Roman Catholic doctrinal ban on birth control. It's rural Ireland, 1981 the man …
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Bizarre, Heartwarming, Hilarious, Maddening! Let’s Open with an Exceptional Performance.
By Anne Brodie The Andrea Riseborough underground Oscar campaign - if unconventional - exists for a reason. The British actor is positively on fire in an extremely difficult, naked role in the fact-based elegy of an addict To Leslie. Made on a shoestring budget, and executive produced and …
In Which We’re Cautioned, Delighted, Engaged and Aghast!
By Anne Brodie Big news this week! The 20th-anniversary 4K restoration release of Ang Lee's masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The quadruple Oscar-winning landmark film, a departure for Lee whose prior work included Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, and later …
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Sadie Laflamme-Snow and Andie MacDowell Time Travel in Hallmark’s The Way Home.
It's not often that a young actor has the opportunity to play a complicated character who undergoes experiences that fundamentally change her while spanning two time periods. But Sadie Laflamme-Snow who plays Alice in Hallmark Channel's The Way Home had what she calls a "masterclass". Her Alice …