By Anne Brodie The Menu follows Tyler and Margot (Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy) on a culinary adventure in a remote island restaurant with an excruciatingly high snob factor. The woman he was to bring dumped him, so she was replaced by Margot, who wasn't aware until the chef (Ralph Fiennes) …
Girl Power Galore, Chiara, Alicia Vikander, Action Hero Danielle C. Ryan, Brenda Blethyn, Lucille Ball, Shine On!
By Anne Brodie Jonas Carpignano's A Chiara is a stunner. Swamy Rotolo is 15 - year old Chiara, the middle daughter in a close-knit loving (real-life) family living in Calabria, and they're celebrating her sister Giulia's (Grecia Rotolo) 18th birthday. Family and villagers pull out all the …
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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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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The Sopranos Redux and Rewind, Monica Lewinsky, Pharma Bro, Jake Gyllenhaal, the Forever War Between Women and Men Plus …
Robert Vincent Montano, Michael Gandolfini, Gabriella Piazza and Alessandro Nivola in The Many Saints of Newark By Anne Brodie The Many Saints of Newark, the origins story of HBO's long-running classic mob series The Sopranos is finally here. Alessandro Nivola is young up and comer Dickie …