By Anne Brodie A ninety-year-old woman who lives alone in the woods on a 54 acre property knows what we’ve all been grappling with for years – how to live easily on the earth and work with it for our needs, our joys and our belonging. Mennonite Agatha Bock is the subject of the documentary …
The Beatles’ Never to Be Repeated Phenom, Sweet Canadian Heist, Cottage Country Danger and the Brilliant Dale Dickey.
By Anne Brodie The Martin Scorsese-produced doc Beatles ’64 is a wonderful holiday treat for music lovers and historians. Of course, he did it with a little help from his friends Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, the surviving members of the most influential rock band ever. John Lennon was …
Variety, Thy Name is This Week in Film, Streaming and TV – A Rainbow of Moods, Genres, Names.
Candyman from Universal Studios By Anne Brodie Jordan Peele has earned a spot at the top of the modern horror canon as a creator of intelligent, elegant and provocative, Black forward stories that get into the brain as much as under the skin. He's created a new genre of horror, steeped in …
We Offer The Works This Week – from Deep Freeze to Torrid Love!
Caoilinn Springall and George Clooney in The Midnight Sky By Anne Brodie Looks like Nomadland’s Frances McDormand has fierce competition for all the Best Actress awards in Viola Davis. Davis is unrecognizable as 20’s blues icon Ma Rainey, in George C. Wolfe’s film adaptation of August …
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’s Band of Brothers
Viola Davis in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Netflix Strong Oscar buzz for Netflix' Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, based on August Wilson's play and starring Viola Davis as the legendary 20's singer, the "Mother of the Blues". Rainey records a studio song over the course of a sweltering hot day, as band …
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