By Anne Brodie The National Film Board of Canada – the NFB - dips into its massive library of films about Canadians made by Canadians to celebrate June's National indigenous History Month and Pride Month. Among its 460 Indigenous-made films, three new releases are streaming free now. Ossie …
In Praise of Pamela Anderson, a Few Good Films and Murdoch’s 300th Mystery.
By Anne Brodie Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl is a superior character study, with Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a 57-year-old Las Vegas strip dancer whose show is closing after 30 years. Anderson's sublime, gut wrenching performance firmly reshapes her career and opens important new opportunities. …
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Global Female Perspectives, Star Crossed Lovers, Cross-Dressing Stars, a WWII Heroine, Food, and Hot Docs …
By Anne Brodie - Léa Seydoux and George MacKay star in The Beast, from Bertrand Bonello, as lovers who meet over a century of time space, and emotion but never quite gel. Both suffer from anxiety, and panic as catastrophes happen, again and again, 1910, 1990s, 2044, wherever their narrative lands …
Black History Month Picks, Super Bowl Sisters, LGBTQ2+Adolescents, Bad Boyfriends and a Danish Stunner.
By Anne Brodie There are many opportunities to watch and celebrate Black content during Black History Month. TIFF Bell Lightbox offers the 30th-anniversary restoration of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx4sEvhYeVE the 25th-anniversary restoration of Hype Williams’ …
Another Week of Great Women’s Roles and Double La Streep!
By Anne Brodie Two orders of Meryl, please. The extraordinarily talented Ms. Streep id dramatic then comic in two wildly divergent films this weekend. First Meryl joins Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and Lucas Hedges in Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk an edgy, intimate wonder …
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