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 …
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 …
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 …