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 …
A Week for the Books! Barbenheimer, Hollywood Shuts Down, Actors’, Writers’, Studios’ Toxic Moment.
By Anne Brodie Strike! The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are marching the picket lines and production, for the most part, has shut down. Film, TV, and streaming are not producing new works. For the foreseeable, films and shows will …
The Unyielding Battle for Julian Assange’s Freedom: A Family’s Crusade for Truth and Justice
The most famous hacker in history, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resides in isolation in London's tough Belmarsh prison awaiting possible extradition to the US to face trial for espionage. His crime? Publishing videos of US military war crimes against Iraqis, provided to him by Chelsea Manning. …