By Anne Brodie Rojek, Canada's Oscars entry as Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary not only makes clear how vast is the divide between fundamentalist extremists and Western cultures, but it also underlines the faint possibility of finding co-existence. Forty million Kurds make up …
Laura Aikman’s Remarkable Experiences Playing Dyan Cannon in the Cary Grant Biopic Archie.
The complex relationship between Hollywood megastar Cary Grant and his wife Dyan Cannon in the sixties is rich fodder for BritBox's four-part biopic Archie. Jason Isaacs plays Grant, born Archie Leach, and Grant's real-life daughter with Cannon, Jennifer Grant, produced the series. Laura Aikman …
Dyan Cannon, Cary Grant’s Ex-Wife and Jason Isaacs Reveal the Man Behind the Mask.
Dyan Cannon was an aspiring singer and actor when she married Cary Grant in 1965. She was bubbly, ambitious and bright, but once they married, he wanted her to be a traditional housewife and look after him. Their complex relationship, based on intense attraction is the basis for the new BritBox …
Spying on Citizens, Cary Grant Tribute, a Classic Reborn and Christmas Movies on a Jolly Roll!
By Anne Brodie Jialing Zhang's disturbing documentary detailing China's 20 years of smart tech surveillance of its citizens is the stuff of nightmares. Award-winning festival hit Total Trust reveals through secret footage the ways and means authorities pursue grudges against citizens who …
A Nordic “Romance”, Karen Kain, Shetland S8, Res Kids, Girls Gone Wild -1890 – Walk Across Namibia and Is It Cake?!
By Anne Brodie Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves reflects on life's quiet offside moments as two characters fallen on hard times find each other. A grocery cashier and a labourer working in Helsinki, Finland had bigger dreams for themselves, but living in squalor on tiny incomes has punctured those …