By Anne Brodie Perfect Days, Wim Wenders' meditation on the everyday is a deep delight. Days in which a toilet cleaner carries out his morning and evening routines, does his job, takes a few simple pleasures and glory in the beauty of life, within busting Tokyo, with occasional human contact. …
Women and Immigration, Freezing One’s Assets, Canada’s Newest Female Cop, a Pill to Cure Heartache … et plus!
By Anne Brodie The Canadian Reads 2015 book Ru, the dramatic true story of Kim Thúy whose family fled Vietnam for Canada, endured a nerve-shattering journey and adjustment to a strange culture has been adapted for the big screen. They were the so-called "boat people" fleeing a murderous regime. …
Ambition’s Price, and Being Elsewhere.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative style brings to vivid, unforgettable life Four Daughters, a quasi-documentary about a family of Tunisian women mourning the disappearance of the eldest two daughters who were "devoured by wolves". Ben Hania as the real mother Olfa …
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Music Writ Large, x 4, An Historic Love Shocker, Eddie Murphy VS an Elf as Christmas Closes in!
By Anne Brodie Maestro, Bradley Cooper's epic - he wrote, directed, stars in, produced, learned the fine art of conducting, played piano and probably much more - is an explosion of imaginaton. The flying, sweeping, microscopic, macroscopic, outre cinematography, the interplay of black and white …
Fact-Based Docs and Features to Wow, a Gen X Treat and One for Gen Alpha, and What Not To Do with Power.
By Anne BrodieHelen Mirren is somewhere behind the ageing, puffy physicality of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in a time of great crisis, in Guy Nattiv's political fact-based thriller Golda. While the film isn't the finest of its genre, it does shine a spotlight on a woman in power in the 70s …