By Anne Brodie Writer-director Ruben Östlund is back in his favourite place – the hotel. Bedrooms, dining rooms, common thoroughfares with balustrades, and a vibe of impermanence and mild dread as he looks through keyholes at couples not quite in tune. They struggle with the politics of their …
30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer’s Hello Jack! The Kindness Show Shines a Positive Light.
Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show, now on Apple TV+, co-created, executive produced by, and starring Jack McBrayer fills a void in children's programming. If there was ever a time when kindness is needed, it is now. Jack speaks with young Kindness Ambassadors about what they do to make the world a …
Truth and Reconciliation, Sigourney Weaver & Kevin Kline, Sinéad, Baked Goods!
By Anne Brodie In honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, The History Channel presents the documentary, True Story, from Eagle Vision, a comprehensive study of Indigenous history in Canada, culture, and life before and after colonialism. Kaniehtiio Horn narrates this ambitious …
Marilyn and Sidney, Canada’s Oscar Entry Lead This Week’s Screen Pix.
By Anne Brodie The much anticipated Netflix film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional take on Norma Jean Baker / Marilyn Monroe debuts Sept. 28. Oates' novel is shocking, lurid, and sex-obsessed, as is Andrew Dominik's nearly three-hour opus. It posits that Norma Jean was victimized from …
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The Spell of Exotica, or, a Good Djinn is Hard to Find, Workplace Blues, Godard, Momoa and Hitch!
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies "all the stories in human history". She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a …