By Anne Brodie Fargo Year Four arrives Sunday with a satchel full of origins history. Noah Hawley takes us south to Kansas City in 1950 from where the Black, Irish and Italian gangs run their widespread criminal activities – right up to Winnipeg! This series retains its wonky history, often …
Our TIFF Organisational Tipsheet, Breonna Taylor, Mulan Streams and We’ll Wrap with The Golden Girls!
By Anne Brodie Not long now till TIFF 20, pandemic edition, the 45th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Sept.10-19. It will be vastly different but with the creative use of digital resources and socially distanced in theatre screenings, as well as digital, it will still feel like …
Three Unforgettable Documentary Shockers, Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden Battle It Out for Comic Supremacy in Greece and Many More Worthies.
By Anne Brodie A startling documentary out of Norway may reveal more than its subject ever imagined. Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova’s weird emotional journey with addict and criminal Karl-Bertil Nordland is at the heart of this spellbinder. Fortuitous archives, incredible access and footage shot …
Great Genre-Spanning Picks to Help Us Get Through This!
By Anne Brodie The 70’s Golden Age of Film Let's get into the Wayback Machine to sample iconoclastic films of the decade that changed everything. Politics, society, and art were evolving at a rapid rate and young pioneering filmmakers enjoyed support from an awakening, wealthy Hollywood …
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We Celebrate International Women’s Day with Hillary, Run This Town and Spielberg’s Back.
We celebrate International Women’s Day with Hillary a fascinating documentary on one of the most influential women of modern times, Hillary Clinton. Hulu’s docuseries by Nanette Burstein captures the then-presidential candidate in 2016 leading up to, during and after she won but lost the presidency. …