By Anne Brodie Universal Language, Canada’s 2025 Best International Academy Award entry, a TIFF hit, is a hoot! A brilliantly whimsical and highly original outrider taking us into a snowbound world of the surreal and bizarre. Director Matthew Rankin and writers Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati and …
Fact-Based Docs and Features to Wow, a Gen X Treat and One for Gen Alpha, and What Not To Do with Power.
By Anne BrodieHelen Mirren is somewhere behind the ageing, puffy physicality of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in a time of great crisis, in Guy Nattiv's political fact-based thriller Golda. While the film isn't the finest of its genre, it does shine a spotlight on a woman in power in the 70s …