By Anne Brodie The first thing to notice about Wicked Part 1 is how expensive it looks. And its one of the most heavily promoted movie events in a long while, wall-to-wall TV interviews, ads, themes and digital banners, on pillows, hats, blankets, bags, tees, games etc... enough to turn any …
Experience a Perfect Day, Women Face Reality, Hundreds of Beavers, and Mads Mikkelsen!!
By Anne Brodie Perfect Days, Wim Wenders' meditation on the everyday is a deep delight. Days in which a toilet cleaner carries out his morning and evening routines, does his job, takes a few simple pleasures and glory in the beauty of life, within busting Tokyo, with occasional human contact. …
It’s Not Comedy It’s Horror, the Weinstein Drama, Mickey Mouse, a Pact and … Loons?
By Anne Brodie The Menu follows Tyler and Margot (Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy) on a culinary adventure in a remote island restaurant with an excruciatingly high snob factor. The woman he was to bring dumped him, so she was replaced by Margot, who wasn't aware until the chef (Ralph Fiennes) …
Lucy and Desi, Prince Philip, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and … Well, Read On!
By Anne Brodie The Lost Daughter is the story of women pushed to their limits, whose instincts are tested and found wanting and the damage done. Olivia Colman's unsympathetic Leda is a British woman on a beach vacation in Greece. Her eyes and expression are fixed and unwelcoming. A man asks for …
TIFF Gems to Pocket, Michael Caine with Aubrey Plaza, and a Return to The Morning Show!
By Anne Brodie TIFF - Benediction, Terence Davies' biography of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden as a young man and soldier and Peter Capaldi as the embittered old man weaves the story of his life in classically style, elegantly and philosophically. Beginning with …