By Anne Brodie Lina Rodriguez' meditative, determinedly slow-paced TIFF entry, the immigration story So Much Tenderness follows a Colombian environmental lawyer Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) under death threats who flees to Canada. She witnessed the murder of her husband, also an activist, and …
Idris Elba Springs Into Action When Terrorists Hijack His Plane. One More Reason To Love Him.
Idris Elba, all 6' 3" inches of him, is aboard a full plane en route to London from Dubai in Apple TV+'s new 7-part series Hijack and stuff is abt to go down. Armed terrorists lay siege to and hijack the plane. Elba, the quintessential hero, a rescuer, the man who can get the job done is Sam Nelson, …
Bizarre, Heartwarming, Hilarious, Maddening! Let’s Open with an Exceptional Performance.
By Anne Brodie The Andrea Riseborough underground Oscar campaign - if unconventional - exists for a reason. The British actor is positively on fire in an extremely difficult, naked role in the fact-based elegy of an addict To Leslie. Made on a shoestring budget, and executive produced and …
The Spell of Exotica, or, a Good Djinn is Hard to Find, Workplace Blues, Godard, Momoa and Hitch!
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies "all the stories in human history". She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a …
How Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba Created a Deep Bond for George Miller’s Romantic Fantasy Three Thousand Years of Longing.
By Anne Brodie The chemistry is dense between Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, co-stars of George Miller's romantic fantasy Three Thousand Years of Longing. Swinton is Alithea, a narrologist, a scholar of stories who has chosen a life of intellect over love and is suddenly confronted by a Djinn - a …