By Anne Brodie Tough family drama on the remote farmlands of Alberta, as a farming community struggles to earn a living and keep trouble at bay. Farms that withstood generations of hardscrabble life and an ongoing litany of back-breaking labour face all new threats, in this case, succession. It's …
Immigrant and LGBTQ2 Stories, Rock Hudson’s Not So Secret Secret, How to Dress to Save the Planet … and Idris Elba!
By Anne Brodie Lina Rodriguez' meditative, determinedly slow-paced TIFF entry, the immigration story So Much Tenderness follows a Colombian environmental lawyer Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) under death threats who flees to Canada. She witnessed the murder of her husband, also an activist, and …
The Human Comedy/Drama Laid Bare in This Week’s Entertainment. “It’s gonna be a bumpy ride!” (Margo Channing)
By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley's achingly poignant Women Talking, based on the book by ex-Mennonite Miriam Toews tells the fact-based story of women in an ultra-conservative religious colony in South America. They are victims of daily rapes, unwanted pregnancies, and physical and emotional abuse at …
Another Week of Great Women’s Roles and Double La Streep!
By Anne Brodie Two orders of Meryl, please. The extraordinarily talented Ms. Streep id dramatic then comic in two wildly divergent films this weekend. First Meryl joins Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest and Lucas Hedges in Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk an edgy, intimate wonder …
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Protests, Wars, Espionage, Radicals, Magic, Conspiracy and Rihanna’s Lingerie Fashion Event. Yup.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix By Anne Brodie Netflix takes us to a time not unlike our own in the excellent film, The Trial of the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin revisits the protest-turned-riot outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago when high profile yippies Tom Hayden, Abbie …