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 …
Marie Clements’ Provocative Series Bones of Crows Continues the Conversation on Colonialism and Impact.
Marie Clements takes her acclaimed film Bones of Crows to series to expand on the story of an Indigenous woman's struggles following a childhood of heartbreak and abuse. She was forcibly and legally removed from her childhood home and placed in an abusive residential school. We follow Aline, played …
Two Unknown Holocaust Stories, Conversion Camp, Rooting for the Baddie and the Greatest Star Ever?
By Anne Brodie Vadim Perelman's WWII slow-burn Persian Lessons looks at an event that couldn't possibly be true. Set in 1942 in a Nazi Germany concentration camp and based on real events it's the story of a rabbi's son who goes to dizzying extremes to save his life; every moment that passes …
CBC’s Megahit Murdoch Mysteries, Now In Its Sixteenth Season and a Global Favourite Launches a Spin-Off. Meet Macy Murdoch’s Shailyn Pierre-Dixon.
CBC and CBC Gem - Shailyn Pierre-Dixon is Macy Murdoch Combining science fiction, action, mystery, and friendship in a series aimed at young people, Macy Murdoch aims to take viewers on a compelling trip back in time. We meet Macy, a descendant - three times granddaughter - of Det. William …
Extra-Large Roundup of Films, TV, Streaming. Settle in – Gems to Be Had.
By Anne Brodie Because Clement Virgo's family drama Brother is so beautifully made, and the performers give their all, it is an exquisitely painful, provocative experience and cuts deep. Marsha (Marsha Stephanie Blake) and her sons Michael (Lamar Johnson) and Francis (Aaron Pierre) live in a …
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