Michael McGowan's sensitive adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel All My Puny Sorrows starring Allison Pill, Sarah Gadon, and Mare Winningham follows a tight-knit family struggling with the suicide of their father/husband (Donal Logue), years after the fact. It changed the landscape of who this …
Espionage Hacks, Schumer Shines, Caleb Landry-Jones Chills, Walken and Seymour and Bob’s Your Uncle
By Anne Brodie - OK folks I was not able to see Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once this week, and folks are raving about it. I'll get to it next week or my name's not Better Late Than Never. In theatres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g&t=15s Gary Oldman …
Penélope Cruz, Liam Neeson, Johnny Depp, Keke Palmer, J-Lo, Aba Amuquandoh – Names Ahead!
By Anne Brodie - Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers is a complex character study and mystery, wrapped in the filmmaker's signature humanism with Penélope Cruz as Janis and Milena Smit as Ana. Almodóvar lowers the visual and emotional temperature this time, out of respect for the dark history …
Kidnapping, Escape, an International Chase and Huge Twists in the Surveillance Thriller Suspicion
Suspicion stars Uma Thurman as a powerful New York businesswoman whose son is kidnapped from a Manhattan hotel. Within hours, British intelligence and the FBI join forces to hunt for five British strangers who happened to stay at the same hotel that night. They are under suspicion and running for …
Merry Christmas! A Little Tragedy, Levity, Heroism, Licorice Pizza, Sex and Fashion on Holiday Menu!
By Anne Brodie It's wonderful the ways artists have interpreted Shakespeare's Macbeth over the centuries. You won't find a theatrical performance, film or reading that's not utterly unique. The lines are unchanging but the ways they can be shaped and enhanced by movement, set design, …