By Anne Brodie It landed Tuesday and most of you have seen it. Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is long. The opening two acts of more or less static, multi-face exposition, followed by long car chases in Rome and boat-and-bridge chases in Venice would have benefited from a fastidious …
A Week for Indie Winners Covering Issues and Entertainments of the Moment.
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 a Hoot. Check Out Our Interview in Which She Talks Slaying the Action Comedy The Out Laws.
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 …
Two LGBTQ2S+Gems, Kim Cattrall’s Moment, What’s Tom Cruise Up To These Days?… and Is That Me Over There?
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 …