Auli'i Cravalho and Judy Reyes in Netflix’ All Together Now By Anne Brodie Justina Machado and Judy Reyes are best friends in Netflix' All Together Now based on Matthew Quick's book Sorta Like a Rock Star, and they share a problem. They are mother and mother figure to Amber, played by …
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar. Women Save the World This Week in Entertainment. Films, Books and the Chemistry of Love.
Flannery O'Connor Stage Mother from Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald shows the life-changing good that can come from opening our minds. The wonderful Aussie actor Jacki Weaver plays Maybelline, a conservative, Texas Baptist church-choir director whose estranged son dies, leaving her his San …
Queen Beyoncé, The Umbrella Academy Even Better S2, Nic Cage and the Stellan Skarsgård Keep On Truckin’ Against the Odds
By Anne Brodie Black is King is Beyoncé’s long awaited and stirring visual album, a reimagining of the music of The Lion King traces African roots, lineage, history, culture and music. It’s aimed at “young kings and queens in search of their own crowns” and was shot over a year in New York, Los …
The Umbrella Academy’s Emmy Raver-Lampman’s Strange Coincidence
By Anne Brodie Season Two of Netflix’ The Umbrella Academy debuts this week and fans couldn’t be more excited. I’ve had a peek and will say this season exceeds the excellent first series oin its scope and imagination. OK so Sir Reginald Hargreeves is dead and the superhero children he adopted …
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Rod Lurie’s The Outpost, The Painted Bird’s Brutal Beauty, a Working Man’s Elegy But Fun Stuff Too!
By Anne Brodie Rod Lurie’s The Outpost is finally available on VOD in Canada as of Tuesday. Based on Jake Tapper’s book of the same name, it’s a military thriller covering events of The Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan in 2009 when US soldiers were trapped in a geographically hazardous valley, …