By Anne Brodie Guillermo de Toro’s florid version of Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein gets the full CGI, over the top treatment typical of the filmmaker. It could have benefitted from a slightly less in-yer-face with some degree of naturalism, more suggestion than showmanship. …
We’ve Got It All! Love, Food, Sex, Style, and Elordi! and Canadian Politics :)
By Anne Brodie Australian actor Jacob Elordi’s current heartthrob status will bring folks in to see Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses in theatres April 25. And boy, do we get to see a lot of him. He’s Julius, brother of Lee (Will Poulter), who is married to Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones); they live in …
Is a Bad Mother a Bad Person? Plus POWs and Belly Laughs. A Mercurial Week :)
By Anne Brodie Switzerland is a wealthy country, but it has failed to keep an unnamed mother and her three small children from falling into desperate poverty and increasing lawlessness. Ophélia Kolb leads the cast of The Courageous; she's three months behind on rent and faces an unkind future, …
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Tilda! Christmas Comes in Many Forms, True Tales, Oh Canada, Mystery, Love and Real Estate!
A family survived an earthly holocaust living in a salt mine - an extremely well appointed, art treasure trove museum of the best art – salt mine. They’ve been there twenty years and made a policy never to give food or shelter to beggars who come by, as has happened, because every time they offered …