By Anne Brodie A Difficult Year from writer-directors Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano takes a comedic tongue-in-cheek look at two middle-aged guys, Bruno (Pio Marmaï) and Albert (JonathanCohen) both in dire financial straits when we meet them. A Difficult Year is a comedy about poverty that …
Sudbury’s Having A Moment, Fantasy’s Ancient Roots, Searing Series From Scandinavia and Canadian Comics Brighten the Zombie Apocalypse. It’s Men’s Week!
By Anne Brodie What a joy to find Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Henry Czerny, Bruce McCulloch, and Scott Thompson on the big screen together! They form a winning ensemble in Zombie Town a spoof on the horror genre, suitable for all ages, based on R. L. Stine’s best-selling young adult novel series …
Steady Your Nerves, Excercise Your Brain, Pray for a Miracle, Make an Action Movie, Cook and Live Life! An Inspiring Week.
By Anne Brodie It landed Tuesday and most of you have seen it. Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is long. The opening two acts of more or less static, multi-face exposition, followed by long car chases in Rome and boat-and-bridge chases in Venice would have benefited from a fastidious …
Plenty of Sturm und Drang and Few Laughs This Week in Watchables. And a Canadian Must-See
By Anne Brodie Matt Johnson's taut, entertaining, and alarming film, BlackBerry looks at the origins of the once beloved thumb-powered device that hypnotised the 90s, created in Waterloo, Ontario. Research in Motion co-founder Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, (Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton ) …
History Made! Crowning a King in a Gilded Spectacle, Dance Your Troubles Away, Dystopia, Having Too Much Stuff and :) Muppets.
By Anne Brodie History will be made tomorrow and we are its witnesses. Few of us have seen the coronation of a British monarch. The last, Queen Elizabeth II, was 70 years ago. She served longer than any Monarch since Britain's organisation as a kingdom in early medieval times and was widely …