By Anne Brodie Strike! The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are marching the picket lines and production, for the most part, has shut down. Film, TV, and streaming are not producing new works. For the foreseeable, films and shows will …
Immigrant and LGBTQ2 Stories, Rock Hudson’s Not So Secret Secret, How to Dress to Save the Planet … and Idris Elba!
By Anne Brodie Lina Rodriguez' meditative, determinedly slow-paced TIFF entry, the immigration story So Much Tenderness follows a Colombian environmental lawyer Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) under death threats who flees to Canada. She witnessed the murder of her husband, also an activist, and …
We’ve Got It All – Comedy, Drama, Class Jumping, MTM, Ah-nold, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Madonna, Wine and Festivals!
By Anne Brodie Comic Sebastian Maniscalco handles what could have been underwhelming material well in this standard family dysfunction comedy About My Father pretty well. He doesn't go broad or for the caricature as Sebastian, a man who has moved up the social ladder through his fiancée Ellie …
Just Days to the Landmark 30th Hot Docs Film Fest. Truth on Tap.
By Anne Brodie Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, or Hot Docs, the biggest doc fest in North America celebrates 30 years of life-based, non-fiction films. From a community affair now reaching across Canada, this year April 27th - May 7th, 214 films from 72 countries will be …
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Canada’s Beloved Emily Hampshire Sequeys From Schitt’s Creek to an Attack on the North Sea Oil Rig She Commands.
Emily Hampshire made an astounding move from the small-town comedy of the global sensation Schitt's Creek to leading a dominantly male crew aboard an oil rig in Ireland's treacherous North Sea. The Rig stars Hampshire as Rose who runs a traditionally male dominion; she faces up to discrimination and …