By Anne Brodie Universal Language, Canada’s 2025 Best International Academy Award entry, a TIFF hit, is a hoot! A brilliantly whimsical and highly original outrider taking us into a snowbound world of the surreal and bizarre. Director Matthew Rankin and writers Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati and …
MORE TIFF ADDITIONS!!! Some Sopranos, Some Kidman, Edna O’Brien, Shorts, Something for Everyone!
By Anne Brodie Azazel Jacob’s Netflix’s His Three Daughters concerns three estranged daughters (Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon) who gather to watch over their dying, beloved father Vinny (Jay O. Sanders). Coon’s Katie, the eldest daughter is always angry, and Olsen’s …
Women Do It All, and So Does This 18th Century Polymath, a Man.
By Anne Brodie Twice Colonized opens this year's 30th annual Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27. Filmmaker Lin Alluna focused her lens for seven years on Inuit lawyer and sealskin clothes designer, Aaju Peter. She was indeed 'twice colonized". The first time Peter was taken alone as a child of …
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It’s a Whiplash Long Weekend Onscreen, Naughty Ex-Pats, Social Climbing, a Fearsome Princess, and a Brill Nature Doc.
By Anne Brodie Sir David Attenborough's Profiles Plant Life on BBC Earth' new series The Green Planet, one of the best produced and most breathtaking nature docs I've seen starts with this statement “Every mouthful of food that we eat, every lungful of air that we breathe, depends on plants”. …