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 …
A New Canadian Police Procedural Touches Today’s Hot Button Issues Through a Star Rookie Cop’s Eyes.
Supinder Wraich and Enrico Colantoni in CBC's Allegiance Supinder Wraich is Sabrina Sohal, a top police academy achiever whose father, a federal Minister is arrested on treason charges on the day and at the place of her graduation ceremony. Suddenly under the media spotlight, she must keep her …
Women and Immigration, Freezing One’s Assets, Canada’s Newest Female Cop, a Pill to Cure Heartache … et plus!
By Anne Brodie The Canadian Reads 2015 book Ru, the dramatic true story of Kim Thúy whose family fled Vietnam for Canada, endured a nerve-shattering journey and adjustment to a strange culture has been adapted for the big screen. They were the so-called "boat people" fleeing a murderous regime. …
Lucy and Desi, Prince Philip, Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and … Well, Read On!
By Anne Brodie The Lost Daughter is the story of women pushed to their limits, whose instincts are tested and found wanting and the damage done. Olivia Colman's unsympathetic Leda is a British woman on a beach vacation in Greece. Her eyes and expression are fixed and unwelcoming. A man asks for …