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) …
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 …
Dune, Benedict, Cats, Espionage, Conspiracy, Two Alien Invasions, Circling the Wagons and Adele!
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain By Anne Brodie Denis Villeneuve, the pride of Trois Rivieres, Quebec, helms the second filmed adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal 1965 sci-fi masterpiece, the "unfilmable" Dune. An all-star cast takes us through the spice desert battlefields where House …
TIFF Gems to Pocket, Michael Caine with Aubrey Plaza, and a Return to The Morning Show!
By Anne Brodie TIFF - Benediction, Terence Davies' biography of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden as a young man and soldier and Peter Capaldi as the embittered old man weaves the story of his life in classically style, elegantly and philosophically. Beginning with …
Variety, Thy Name is This Week in Film, Streaming and TV – A Rainbow of Moods, Genres, Names.
Candyman from Universal Studios By Anne Brodie Jordan Peele has earned a spot at the top of the modern horror canon as a creator of intelligent, elegant and provocative, Black forward stories that get into the brain as much as under the skin. He's created a new genre of horror, steeped in …