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 …
Two Unknown Holocaust Stories, Conversion Camp, Rooting for the Baddie and the Greatest Star Ever?
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 …
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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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A Stunning Canadian Entry, Arquette Antics, Arnold, and Discovering a Sister Far Far Away.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Marie Clements' devastating Bones of Crows follows a Cree woman from childhood through her life and one hundred years of violent, hateful abuse of indigenous people in Canada. Set against historic government decisions that resulted in discrimination as policy in …
We’ve Got It All – Comedy, Drama, Class Jumping, MTM, Ah-nold, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Madonna, Wine and Festivals!
By Anne Brodie Comic Sebastian Maniscalco handles what could have been underwhelming material well in this standard family dysfunction comedy About My Father pretty well. He doesn't go broad or for the caricature as Sebastian, a man who has moved up the social ladder through his fiancée Ellie …