By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley's achingly poignant Women Talking, based on the book by ex-Mennonite Miriam Toews tells the fact-based story of women in an ultra-conservative religious colony in South America. They are victims of daily rapes, unwanted pregnancies, and physical and emotional abuse at …
Two Canadian Oscar Hopefuls, Spies, Emily’s in Paris, a Tiger’s Tale, Horses, the Wild West and … Baked Goods.
By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley's achingly poignant Women Talking is based on the book by ex-Mennonite Miriam Toews concerns the women of an ultra-conservative religious colony in rebellion against generational sexual and domestic abuses by their men. Polley's star-studded cast of Rooney Mara, …
It’s Not Comedy It’s Horror, the Weinstein Drama, Mickey Mouse, a Pact and … Loons?
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) …
A Good Week for Screening, Stars, Stories and That Influential and Deeply Polarising Family of Business Women from LA.
Michael McGowan's sensitive adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel All My Puny Sorrows starring Allison Pill, Sarah Gadon, and Mare Winningham follows a tight-knit family struggling with the suicide of their father/husband (Donal Logue), years after the fact. It changed the landscape of who this …
Alyssa Milano on Brazen’s #MeToo Message
Alyssa Milano, the actor and #MeToo activist stars as Grace, a veteran crime novelist who uses her skills to investigate the murder of her schoolteacher sister Kathleen in Netflix's Brazen. The thriller, based on Nora Robert's novel Brazen Virtue finds Grace flying across the country to answer …
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