By Anne Brodie Familiar real-life trauma comes back to haunt us in Coup! Joseph Schuman’s sly, winking look at the 1918 global influenza pandemic in an American seaside mansion rife with double-crossers, thieves, and a weak master. Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, and Sarah Gadon star as Horton, …
Woman Power Rises to New Levels in Comedy, Drama and Action. Be Here For It.
By Anne Brodie June Squibb, the Oscar-nominated (Nebraska) 95-year-old finally gets her first lead, after 70 years! And she’s solid gold. What a woman! Squibb plays Thelma; she's fiercely independent and lives alone in the home she shared with her late husband. Her daughter (Parker Posey) …
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Anna Chancellor: I Don’t Act To Be Liked. I Don’t Act To Be Fancied. My Lady Jane’s Raunchy Mama Goes for Broke!
The wonderfully bawdy, purposely historically inaccurate, and utterly hilarious series My Lady Jane looks at a succession war in the Tudor English royal court of 1553. The magnificent Anna Chancellor is Lady Frances Grey, mother of Jane who, in this version is not executed at age 16 but goes on to …
Staying Cool with Hot Topics: Nursing Challenges, Iconic Films, and Advocacy
As a sweltering heat wave engulfs much of Eastern Canada, bringing temperatures that could feel as high as 45 degrees with the humidex, the pressing reality of climate change becomes even more palpable. Such extreme weather not only poses serious health risks but also underscores the urgency of …
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This Is The Week We’ve Been Waiting For! Worthy Women’s Stories, Well Told and Worth Your Time.
By Anne Brodie Lena Dunham’s 1980s meditation on the father-daughter relationship in Treasure is authentically emotional. She’s Ruth, a journalist who joins her Polish American father Edek, played by Stephen Fry, on a trip to Warsaw Poland to see the places of his past. He’s a Holocaust …