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. …
If You’re a Fan of Investigative Thrillers, This is Your Week in Entertainment!
By Anne Brodie Steve Coogan has written a fact-based, non-tongue-in-cheek film. If you can imagine. Director Stephen Frears' The Lost King stars Sally Hawkins as amateur historian Philippa Langley whose instincts and apparently ghostly bond with "son of York, last Plantagenet King of England …
Plenty to Entertain and Soothe Your Soul This Week!
By Anne Brodie Scarborough from directors Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson and writer Catherine Hernandez is set in a low-income enclave in eastern Toronto. Its diverse population is well represented in three families whose children attend the same breakfast and literacy program run by a nurturing …
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Strap Yourself in for a BUSY Screening Weekend with Tom Hanks and Kristen Stewart as Diana, Princess of Wales
By Anne Brodie Kristen Stewart is absolutely, freakishly, Diana, Princess of Wales in the imagined and much-anticipated biopic Spencer. Diana's clipped, dense accented speech is perfect, her carriage, and physical tells and intense eyes, all revived in Stewart's spookily realistic portrayal of a …
Nothing’s Off the Table This Week – Blockbusters, Spies, God, Ted Lasso and The Rock as Appetisers.
Potential blockbuster Jungle Cruise is fired by the scrappy relationship between Frank and Lily (Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt), an ancient mystery, time travel, a loveable jaguar and a snapshot parade of Amazonian culture and history, dating back to the arrival of Spain's Conquistadors. There's a …