By Anne Brodie So the kiddies are off to a week of winter camp leaving their suburban parents Emma (Emily Hampshire and Josh (screenwriter /co-star Jonas Chernick) alone for the first time in years. They're really looking forward to, well, having a lot of sex, "We don't have to close the doors! …
Women Do It All, and So Does This 18th Century Polymath, a Man.
By Anne Brodie Twice Colonized opens this year's 30th annual Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27. Filmmaker Lin Alluna focused her lens for seven years on Inuit lawyer and sealskin clothes designer, Aaju Peter. She was indeed 'twice colonized". The first time Peter was taken alone as a child of …
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Think You’ve All the Espionage Thrillers? Citadel Sets a New Standard in Multi-National, Time Traveling Spy Capers. Meet David Weil, the Brains Behind The Game Changer.
Lesley Manville as Dahlia Archer Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Richard Madden, Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville star in Prime Video's fierce new spy thriller Citadel, from creator David Weil. It is a fresh, vital entry with complex, unusual characters, time jumps, and thrills that take us behind the …
David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers Twist, an Iconic Chiller Reimagined.
David Cronenberg's iconic 1988 film Dead Ringers starred Jeremy Irons as twin gynecological surgeons who switch personalities at will while carrying out horrifically gory operations. Prime Video's new series Dead Ringers re-imagines the story with Rachel Weisz as the twins in a new universe that …
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Woman Power! Laughs, Shocks, Art and Love
By Anne Brodie Kelly Reichardt's fourth collaboration with Michelle Williams Showing Up is in many ways removed from the three prior. Its power and subtlety are there but come late in the story, preceded by a long, meditative setup. Williams is Lizzy, a sculptor of female figures in flights of …
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