By Anne Brodie Sir David Attenborough's Profiles Plant Life on BBC Earth' new series The Green Planet, one of the best produced and most breathtaking nature docs I've seen starts with this statement “Every mouthful of food that we eat, every lungful of air that we breathe, depends on plants”. …
Inuit Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk’s Impressive Feature Debut Slash/Back a Tantalising Brew of Tradition, Modernity, and Monsters.
Inuit filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk's genre-busting Slash/Back is probably the sweetest film of its kind, a sci-fi variation on Little Women, set in remote Pangnirtung, Nunavut, or Pang. Preteens Maika (Tasiana Shirley), Jesse (Alexis Vincent-Wolfe), Leena (Chelsea Pruksy), and Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth) …
Cooper Raiff, Boy Genius, on Love, Pain and the Whole Darn Thing :)
Twenty-six-year-old movie-making wunderkind Cooper Raiff's second coming-of-age film Cha Cha Real Smooth is on AppleTV+, a heart-tugging portrait of a young man becoming an adult. Raiff is Andrew; he has a degree but lives at his mother's and works at Meat Sticks. By chance, he becomes a "party …
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Meet the Cast of The Bear, a Terrific New Series Set in a Hot, Cramped Diner Kitchen Under Stress.
FX' The Bear on Hulu The FX Orginal series The Bear on Hulu takes place in the bustling, hot kitchen of the Original Beef of Chicagoland. It's a family-owned diner inherited by fine dining international award-winning chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) on the death of his brother. He gives up his …
Jordan Gavaris and Madison Shamoun are Father and Daughter Meeting for the First Time at The Lake!
There's a bittersweet story at the centre of the new comedy series The Lake between Jordan Gavaris and Madison Shamoun. Gavaris is Justin, a gay man who in high school had fathered a daughter he gave up for adoption. Shamoun plays Billie who bonds with her biological father immediately. They've come …