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By Anne Brodie Rising star, writer, director, and actor Devery Jacobs, a Mohawk from Kahnawa, tackles coming-of-age on multiple levels in This Place. Jacobs plays Kawenniióhstha setting out on a voyage of self-discovery that brings her to Toronto after a lifetime on the reservation. She grapples …
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Ellen Barkin is one of my favourite interview subjects, dating back a couple of decades. It was great to speak with her again about her new Netflix comedy feature The Out Laws. Barkin gives her all in this one, doing her own stunts, sustaining injuries and keeping going and finding a comedic …
By Anne Brodie A psychological thriller out of Teheran explores the ideas of multiplicity, climate change, and coping with a life-changing event that can't be explained. Subtraction from Mani Haghighi at TIFF Bell Lightbox, and Vancity is a gripping story of inescapable doom. that unfolds during …
By Anne Brodie Vadim Perelman's WWII slow-burn Persian Lessons looks at an event that couldn't possibly be true. Set in 1942 in a Nazi Germany concentration camp and based on real events it's the story of a rabbi's son who goes to dizzying extremes to save his life; every moment that passes …
By Anne Brodie Mary Harron's Daliland on Salvador Dali's later years in New York and Spain isn't a great movie - but it's great fun. It's 1974, a happening time in Manhattan's elite arts and social circles. Dali (Sr Ben Kingsley) and his tempestuous muse/wife Gala (Barbara Sukowa) are ensconced …
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