By Anne Brodie There are many opportunities to watch and celebrate Black content during Black History Month. TIFF Bell Lightbox offers the 30th-anniversary restoration of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx4sEvhYeVE the 25th-anniversary restoration of Hype Williams’ …
Regaining Life, Messing Up, Shocking History and Delightful Nasty Women!
By Anne Brodie Oliver Hermanus' shimmering character study Living with its cinematic beauty and equally beautiful story - and score - will pierce the hardest heart. A reworking of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film, Ikiru, is set in London's financial district. Herds of men in pin-striped suits and …
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Strays, the First Sitcom Set in The Hammer! (Hamilton, Ontario)
The CBC's fresh new comedy series Strays follows Shannon Ross - Jung's love interest in Kim’s Convenience - as the new executive director of the Hamilton East Animal Shelter. She oversees creatures great and small, human and other, and a quirky staff that may not be quite ready for her. And she may …
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A Black Panther Saga, the Return of a YA Dynamo, CBC Launches Your Faves’ New Seasons, Comedy Dada …and Cake!
Ann Pornel and Alan Shane Lewis, Hosts of The Great Canadian Baking Show Season 4 By Anne Brodie Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah an intense fact-based chapter in the life of the Black Panther is important. Party Chairman Fred Hampton was less famous than, say, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela …