BY ANNE BRODIE Not to early to "flag" Canada Film Day on April 16th so you can plan your celebration of us, our culture, artistry, and elbows up pride. We will celebrate with a massive show of "our" content on all platforms, two thousand films in all - in one day. Talk about Oh, Canada! - and a …
The Magic Child, Elizabeth Moss Slays, Nic Cage’ Nutty Energy, Mississauga’s Potluck Ladies et plus
By Anne Brodie Sometimes a movie will knock you flat out. The King Tide is such a film. It's set on a wild, windy isolated island off Newfoundland and Labrador, where its population origins are cloaked in mystery. It’s a closed society, “mainlanders” are to be shunned and discouraged from showing …
A Wildly Diverse Collection of Entertainments This Week Starting with the Mighty Emma Thompson in a Sex Romp.
By Anne Brodie Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a witty and provocative portrait of an uptight former school teacher Nancy played with vulnerability by Emma Thompson who has never had an orgasm, experienced oral sex, or much pleasure at all in her 31-year marriage. She's a bundle of anxieties but …
What a Week! Loki, In the Heights, Gang Life TO, Top Secret Soviet Tragedy, Flacking and More!
God of Mischief, Tom Hiddleston as Loki on Disney+ By Anne Brodie Charles Officer's deeply affecting film Akilla’s Escape a "crime-noir about the urban child-soldier" in Toronto looks at the toll taken on Black youth at risk in a cycle of generational poverty, violence and gangsterism. Officer …
DJT COVID Fail, Bong Joon-Ho’s Updated Classic, Du Maurier’s Rebecca Redux and Moving New Pandemic Anthology Series.
Armie Hammer and Lily James in Rebecca By Anne Brodie Totally Under Control one of the year’s most powerful documentaries shot in secret for five months, puts the Trump response to the COVID crisis under the microscope. Day by day month by month the case is built - an indisputable …