By Anne Brodie Dir. Felix Van Groeningen's adaptation of Paolo Cognetti's novel The Eight Mountains will rip your heart out. Told simply, with the Italian Alps a looming, breathtaking presence, follows a friendship between two men over forty years. Pietro lives in a Turin apartment block and …
Plenty to Entertain and Soothe Your Soul This Week!
By Anne Brodie Scarborough from directors Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson and writer Catherine Hernandez is set in a low-income enclave in eastern Toronto. Its diverse population is well represented in three families whose children attend the same breakfast and literacy program run by a nurturing …
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Dominic Cooke Directs Benedict Cumberbatch in The Courier, an Important Real-Life Spy Thriller.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Dominic Cooke's The Courier, with Merab Ninidze Benedict Cumberbatch appears to be an espionage film fan; he's often played a spy. In Dominic Cooke's fact-based spy thriller The Courier he is Greville Wynne, an English businessman who agrees to undertake secret …
Rod Lurie’s The Outpost – Solider Turned Filmmaker’s Hard Look at War.
By Anne Brodie There are few filmmakers in Hollywood with Rod Lurie’s experience. A graduate of West Point and a soldier, he segued into film criticism in Los Angeles before finding his calling as a filmmaker. So it’s no wonder Lurie’s projects carry knowledge-based military and political …
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