BY ANNE BRODIE Robert DeNiro plays a former President of the United States in his first foray into streaming television. Zero Day now on Netflix is a six-part conspiracy thriller that’s terrifyingly timely. De Niro is President George Mullen, enjoying life on his elegant rural estate, keeping up …
Not the Greatest Week at the Movies, Thank Goodness for Streamers and Film Fests!
By Anne Brodie Richard Gere stars in Longing, a romantic drama partly shot in Kitchener and Hamilton, with a peculiar bent. Adapted from writer-director Savi Gabizon’s own 2017 film, it’s a story of loss and hoped-for redemption. Gere is Daniel who meets his Canadian ex-Rachel (Suzanne Clément) …
From the Italian Alps to a Magnificent Garden to Beirut – Men Take Us Places This Week.
By Anne Brodie Dir. Felix Van Groeningen's adaptation of Paolo Cognetti's novel The Eight Mountains will rip your heart out. Told simply, with the Italian Alps a looming, breathtaking presence, follows a friendship between two men over forty years. Pietro lives in a Turin apartment block and …
Tom Cruise, Angelyne, The Sex Pistols, Very Naughty Ricky Gervais, Glenn Close, and That Ain’t All.
By Anne Brodie Can you believe it's 36 years later? Top Gun: Maverick finds Tom Cruise as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, older, wiser, and jobless, a washed-up star jet fighter test pilot. Out of the blue, he's called back to service, to the annoyance of Jon Hamm's Admiral Simpson, saved by "Ice" …
Protests, Wars, Espionage, Radicals, Magic, Conspiracy and Rihanna’s Lingerie Fashion Event. Yup.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix By Anne Brodie Netflix takes us to a time not unlike our own in the excellent film, The Trial of the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin revisits the protest-turned-riot outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago when high profile yippies Tom Hayden, Abbie …