By Anne Brodie It landed Tuesday and most of you have seen it. Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is long. The opening two acts of more or less static, multi-face exposition, followed by long car chases in Rome and boat-and-bridge chases in Venice would have benefited from a fastidious …
History Made! Crowning a King in a Gilded Spectacle, Dance Your Troubles Away, Dystopia, Having Too Much Stuff and :) Muppets.
By Anne Brodie History will be made tomorrow and we are its witnesses. Few of us have seen the coronation of a British monarch. The last, Queen Elizabeth II, was 70 years ago. She served longer than any Monarch since Britain's organisation as a kingdom in early medieval times and was widely …
A Haunting Rendition of the Dickens Classic Great Expectations Stars Olivia Colman and Fionn Whitehead. Meet the Cast.
Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham, Shalom Brune-Franklin as Estella. CR: Miya Mizuno/FX Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel Great Expectations, published in 1860, tells a tale that could be told throughout human history. It examines issues of class, patriarchy, the weaponization of emotion, and …
The Good, the Bad and the Ugh-ly. Entertainment in Short
By Anne Brodie Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based actor, and filmmaker Michael Zelniker traversed Canada's massive boreal forest to shine a light on an urgent environmental problem. Our boreal forest, the biggest in the world and the "lungs of the planet", below the Arctic, is home to countless …
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Extra-Large Roundup of Films, TV, Streaming. Settle in – Gems to Be Had.
By Anne Brodie Because Clement Virgo's family drama Brother is so beautifully made, and the performers give their all, it is an exquisitely painful, provocative experience and cuts deep. Marsha (Marsha Stephanie Blake) and her sons Michael (Lamar Johnson) and Francis (Aaron Pierre) live in a …
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