By Anne Brodie Sometimes a movie will knock you flat out. The King Tide is such a film. It's set on a wild, windy isolated island off Newfoundland and Labrador, where its population origins are cloaked in mystery. It’s a closed society, “mainlanders” are to be shunned and discouraged from showing …
Experience a Perfect Day, Women Face Reality, Hundreds of Beavers, and Mads Mikkelsen!!
By Anne Brodie Perfect Days, Wim Wenders' meditation on the everyday is a deep delight. Days in which a toilet cleaner carries out his morning and evening routines, does his job, takes a few simple pleasures and glory in the beauty of life, within busting Tokyo, with occasional human contact. …
Raining? Try Some Eye Candy, Sex, Romance, History Rejigged, Action Women, Tricky Dickey’s Clown Car and Hot Docs ’30.
By Anne Brodie So the kiddies are off to a week of winter camp leaving their suburban parents Emma (Emily Hampshire and Josh (screenwriter /co-star Jonas Chernick) alone for the first time in years. They're really looking forward to, well, having a lot of sex, "We don't have to close the doors! …
On Heroism and Our Ability to Change and Adapt, Thrills, Chills and Victories.
By Anne Brodie Canadian athlete - and hero - Andrea Constand, a towering figure in the #MeToo movement related to the drug rapes of dozens of women by TV icon Bill Cosby, has come forward with her story. Karen Wookey's heartbreaking documentary The Case Against Cosby lays out exactly what …
Canada’s Beloved Emily Hampshire Sequeys From Schitt’s Creek to an Attack on the North Sea Oil Rig She Commands.
Emily Hampshire made an astounding move from the small-town comedy of the global sensation Schitt's Creek to leading a dominantly male crew aboard an oil rig in Ireland's treacherous North Sea. The Rig stars Hampshire as Rose who runs a traditionally male dominion; she faces up to discrimination and …