By Anne Brodie Canadian celebrity chef and actor Matty Matheson’s YouTube channel is a hit and now he's landed a cooking series on Netflix. However, Just a Dash is the only cooking show that made me lose my appetite. He feeds the public in twelve restaurants and NEVER WASHES HIS HANDS., even …
A Mixed Bag of Treats… Women’s Stories.
By Anne Brodie Testament of Ann Lee is a gut-wrenching story of a woman’s faith that will have you spinning. Ann Lee, (Amanda Seyfried) born in Manchester UK in 1736 had a peculiar life. The opening sequence finds a group of pioneer women bending to the ground and throwing themselves …
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America 1975, Murder and Dopplegangers.
By Anne Brodie If you were conscious in 1975 and lived in North America, you will remember it as a turbulent year, of upheaval, new ideas and post hippy social awareness. It was a banner year for bold, impressive and timely films; that’s the lens through which Morgan Neville illustrates what …
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Revisting Disaster: a Twist, Sixties Scoop Fallout and a Haunting Pastoral.
By Anne Brodie Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice and Michelle Thrush lead a small cast in Meadowlarks from Tasha Hubbard. They’re Cree siblings - Anthony, Connie, Marianne and Gwen, taken from their shared mother and sent to non-Indigenous homes. The Canadian government took by force …
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Two Solid Streaming Opps So You Don’t Have to Go Outside
By Anne Brodie Ok, so Frank Hathaway and Lu Shakespeare (Mark Benton, Jo Joyner) had a “disagreement” and broke up their two-person detective agency in Stratford-Upon-Avon after four seasons. Shakespeare and Hathaway S5 launches on BritBox Nov 25 but what to expect? After two years not speaking, …
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