By Anne Brodie Dianne Whelan's riveting documentary 500 Days in the Wild follows her journey, by foot, canoe, and riding a 40-year-old Wizard bike across 4,634 kilometers of this land and our three oceans. She started in Newfoundland with a phone, GPS, a lighter, a big bag of necessities, and a …
The Stunning Space Travel Series Constellation Questions Everything We See.
Noomi Rapace and James D'Arcy are husband and wife in the Apple TV+ space thriller Constellation. Rapace is Jo, a wife, and mother on a 9-month mission, while husband Magnus played by D'Arcy cares for their young daughter Alice, played by twins Rosie and Davina Coleman. They are trying to live a …
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THis Week – Longing for the Past, Diving into the Future, Comedy, Tragedy, Chaos and Beauty.
Andrew Haigh's fantasy drama All Of Us Strangers packs an emotional punch strong enough to fell a person. It seems mundane enough at first. Andrew Scott is Adam, a writer working on a script in his high-rise London apartment; he looks out on the vast sky and bustling city below, but his thoughts are …
Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, The Late Great Tom Wolfe, Super Models, Carolyn Taylor’s Golden Dream, and Important Mark-Your-Calendar Dates!
By Anne Brodie Write director Darlene Naponse's Stellar gets under the skin in record time. It takes place inside a dilapidated bar in Sudbury near the nickel and copper mines formed by a meteorite hitting Earth 1.8 billion years ago. "Aadizookaan" from the sky it came. Mother Earth willfully …
Women Do It All, and So Does This 18th Century Polymath, a Man.
By Anne Brodie Twice Colonized opens this year's 30th annual Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27. Filmmaker Lin Alluna focused her lens for seven years on Inuit lawyer and sealskin clothes designer, Aaju Peter. She was indeed 'twice colonized". The first time Peter was taken alone as a child of …
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