By Anne Brodie Last Summer (L'été dernier) is a shocker. Hold on to your hats. Anne (Léa Drucker) is a lawyer who berates her client, a teenager, telling her that drinking and having sex with seven men one night makes her a world-class slut in the eyes of the judge in her upcoming trial. The girl …
It’s a Whiplash Long Weekend Onscreen, Naughty Ex-Pats, Social Climbing, a Fearsome Princess, and a Brill Nature Doc.
By Anne Brodie Sir David Attenborough's Profiles Plant Life on BBC Earth' new series The Green Planet, one of the best produced and most breathtaking nature docs I've seen starts with this statement “Every mouthful of food that we eat, every lungful of air that we breathe, depends on plants”. …
This Week in Entertainment: High to Lowbrow, We’ve Got It All!
Oliva Colman and Anthony Hopkins in The Father - Elevation Pictures By Anne Brodie The Father has 20 wins and 119 nominations and finally, Canadian audiences can see this masterclass in acting. Anthony Hopkins and Oliva Colman lead a small tight-knit ensemble, as Hopkin's character, …
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Fede Álvarez’s Calls, a New Kind of Terror
Fede Álvarez' Calls on Apple TV+ Fede Álvarez' innovative thriller series Calls will haunt you. Nine short stories told via electronic devices, cell phones, CCTV and black boxes, audio, only, are accompanied by electronic artwork designed to heighten our nervous responses to what is happening. …
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BORAT. Kim Kardashian and David Letterman’s Intimate Chat, Waiting for the Rapture, Maritime History’s Most Famous Missing Persons Case, TJFF and Adorable Goats!
Sacha Baron-Cohen as Borat as Trump at Mike Pence Event. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It’s hard to describe the second film from Borat, the Kazakh TV personality who graced us with his big-screen …