By Anne Brodie - Céline Sciamma' TIFF hit Petite Maman is finally in theatres. stars Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne and Margo Abascal. Joséphine Sanz is Nelly, a young girl sent to her mother Marion's rural childhood home after the death of her grandmother to empty and sell it. She likes to …
Timely and Powerful Indigenous Films, Celebrating Geraldine Chaplin, Royal Wedding Redux and Tantoo Cardinal!
Geraldine Chaplin and Jackie Ludueña Koslovitch in Holy Beasts By Anne Brodie Canada, drop everything and see Beans in theatres. This heart-tugging drama about a little girl caught up in a vicious cycle of racism and struggle is all too true. Images from July to September 1990, in Oka, …
Film and Streaming Gems; Global Treats This Week.
By Anne Brodie Lupin The emotionally charged story of love and sacrifice, Our Friend concerns grace, doing unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Dakota Johnson, a wife and mother of two diagnosed with terminal cancer and her husband (Casey Affleck) are overwhelmed by grief and domestic …
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Rachelle Lefevre Tackles a Deadly Mystery in Acorn’s The Sounds
Acorn’s miniseries The Sounds, finds a Canadian woman excited to travel from Vancouver to New Zealand to join her husband and launch a business. But just days after her arrival he disappears, and the body of a woman murdered 15 years earlier is discovered. The idyllic, majestic New Zealand …
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At Long Last Tenet, Bill & Ted! And Enough Streaming and In Theatres To Keep Everyone Entertained!
By Anne Brodie Two major releases this week, as different as chalk and cheese, Bill & Ted Face the Music, and Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited Tenet. And yet so very similar. Both depend upon the plastic nature of time and space, as our protagonists time travel to find, hide, and fix …