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) …
Wakandan and British Royals, Emily Blunt’s Trip West, Indigenous Gems, and Never a Better Time to Mind Your Manners
By Anne Brodie Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever takes us back to the strong and proud country, an idyllic place where science and knowledge are valued as much as ancient traditions. An ideal government is in place, with Ramonda (Angela Bassett) as Queen, following the death of King …
Marilyn and Sidney, Canada’s Oscar Entry Lead This Week’s Screen Pix.
By Anne Brodie The much anticipated Netflix film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional take on Norma Jean Baker / Marilyn Monroe debuts Sept. 28. Oates' novel is shocking, lurid, and sex-obsessed, as is Andrew Dominik's nearly three-hour opus. It posits that Norma Jean was victimized from …
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The Spell of Exotica, or, a Good Djinn is Hard to Find, Workplace Blues, Godard, Momoa and Hitch!
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies "all the stories in human history". She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a …
Amber Midthunder Saves the World in Predator Origins Story Prey
Prey, the Predator origins story, stars Amber Midthunder as Naru, a Commanche woman, circa 1750 living on the American Great Plains. Naru is an adventurer and hunter, much to the dismay of the male hunters who see her as an interloper. But she's the one who recognises that a fearsome threat has …
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