By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley's achingly poignant Women Talking is based on the book by ex-Mennonite Miriam Toews concerns the women of an ultra-conservative religious colony in rebellion against generational sexual and domestic abuses by their men. Polley's star-studded cast of Rooney Mara, …
Royal Fuss, Pinnochio Redux, Olivia Colman, Sex, Food!
By Anne Brodie Well, you have probably watched/binged all three episodes of Harry & Meghan available now on Netflix. The final three show up next Thursday. Liz Garbus certainly closes ranks with the formerly Royal scallywags and you have reached your own conclusions as to what version of …
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Eddie Redmayne on His Phenomenal Performance in The Good Nurse
Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne plays a difficult role in Netflix' fact-based film The Good Nurse. He is Charlie Cullen, a gentle, smiling, apparently empathetic new hire at Oakfield Hospital in New Jersey, following a string of jobs in hospitals across the US. He bonds with nurse Amy Loughren played by …
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Tracey Deer Directs Episodes of Three Pines That Reflect a Disturbing Canadian Reality.
Tracey Deer won international acclaim with her fact-based film Beans, about an indigenous mother and her two young daughters caught up in the landmark 1990 Oka Crisis in Quebec as Mohawks protested the destruction of their sacred burial grounds for a golf course. Deer directs episodes of Amazon …
Good and Evil Duke it Out in Prime Video’s Amazon Canada Series Three Pines. Meet Star Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.
The multi-talented Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers - actor writer and director - joins Alfred Molina and the cast of Amazon Canada's gripping anthology series Three Pines, based on author Louise Penny's Detective Gamache mystery novels. Set in Quebec's picturesque Eastern Townships in midwinter, …