By Anne Brodie Chicago native Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama We Grown Now follows two best friends living in the notorious Cabrini-Green projects at the height of its drugs and crime waves. Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez) are spontaneous fun-loving kids, who love to jump …
In 2016, Filmmaker Dianne Whelan Had Enough So She Hit the Road – Alone. The Result – an Extraordinary Documentary.
Dianne Whelan left Newfoundland on a 40-year-old bike with her supplies strapped to her back to get away from it all. She biked, walked, canoed, and kayaked mostly alone across Canada, to its three oceans, with five cameras and a drone. She emerged, not 500 days but six years later, a new and …
J-Lo, Thrice, Juliette Binoche Twice, Daisy Ridley, Coco Chanel, Britain’s Oscars and Food, Glorious Food! French Food!
By Anne Brodie Jennifer Lopez releases her first album in ten years alongside a star-studded fantasy musical film This Is Me…Now: A Love Story reflecting her headling grabbing love life, now at 54. Dave Meyers' film in partnership with J-Lo is an ambitious, visually enticing "cinematic odyssey, …
Ambition’s Price, and Being Elsewhere.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative style brings to vivid, unforgettable life Four Daughters, a quasi-documentary about a family of Tunisian women mourning the disappearance of the eldest two daughters who were "devoured by wolves". Ben Hania as the real mother Olfa …
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Bringing a Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel to Life, Rendevous with Madness Opener, Parisian Love Problems and Eating at the End of the World
By Anne Brodie People flew and sailed from around the world to eat at KOKS, a two-star Michelin restaurant on a craggy ocean outcropping at Ilimanaq, Greenland. From the airport, they sailed to Koks, The Most Remote Restaurant in the World, run by Chef Poul Andrias Ziska. The haute cuisine …