By Anne Brodie Rojek, Canada's Oscars entry as Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary not only makes clear how vast is the divide between fundamentalist extremists and Western cultures, but it also underlines the faint possibility of finding co-existence. Forty million Kurds make up …
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 …
Eddie Redmayne on His Phenomenal Performance in The Good Nurse
Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne plays a difficult role in Netflix' fact-based film The Good Nurse. He is Charlie Cullen, a gentle, smiling, apparently empathetic new hire at Oakfield Hospital in New Jersey, following a string of jobs in hospitals across the US. He bonds with nurse Amy Loughren played by …
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Buffy Saint-Marie, Two Oscar Shoo-Ins, RomCom with Past Masters of the Genre et plus.
By Anne Brodie Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On directed by Madison Thomas celebrates a seminal figure in Canadian, American, and indigenous culture, her music, activism, and philanthropy, and her warm positive spirit. While performing in Toronto and Manhattan's folk scene in the 60s, she sang and …
Kodi-Smit McPhee on His Stunning Oscar-Nominated Performance in The Power of the Dog.
Twenty-five-year-old Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee McPhee's breathtaking performance of a sensitive young man suddenly uprooted to a cattle ranch on his mother's marriage is the kind of work one would expect from a far more experienced actor. In Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, he navigates …