A radical feminist story is revealed in Widow Clicquot which took place in the early 1880s in the fertile Champagne region of France. Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, played with authority by Haley Bennett is married to François (Tom Sturridge) who owns a failing Champagne vineyard and suddenly dies …
Is Love at First Sight Even Possible Without Being Cheesy? Jennifer E. Smith and Vanessa Caswill Trash the Stereotype.
Jennifer E. Smith's book The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight is the basis for Vanessa Caswill's Netflix's sweet and salty adaptation Love at First Sight, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy. They are Hadley, an American off to London for her father's second wedding. She meets …
Oscar Favourites, the Male Gaze Problem, a Plucky Detective, a Lone Wolf and Cocktails, Baby, in The Hammer and Sicily!
By Anne Brodie Seems to me that Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan are Oscar nom shoe-ins for their gut-wrenching performances in The Banshees of Inisherin. They bring to life a deadly episode in a war of wills that can't be won when Colm (Gleeson) suddenly turns on his lifelong …
Journeys, Awakening, Loss, Love, Celebration and Toronto the Cute!
By Anne Brodie Wildhood is a poignant, bittersweet awakening story of Link, a Mi'kmaw teenager who escapes severe abuse at home and hits the road with his little brother Travis. Writer/director/producer Bretten Hannam's Two-Spirit odyssey filmed in English and Mi'kmaw starring Phillip …
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