By Anne Brodie The Andrea Riseborough underground Oscar campaign - if unconventional - exists for a reason. The British actor is positively on fire in an extremely difficult, naked role in the fact-based elegy of an addict To Leslie. Made on a shoestring budget, and executive produced and …
In Which We’re Cautioned, Delighted, Engaged and Aghast!
By Anne Brodie Big news this week! The 20th-anniversary 4K restoration release of Ang Lee's masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The quadruple Oscar-winning landmark film, a departure for Lee whose prior work included Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, and later …
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Valentine’s Day Just Around the Corner, Love Stories de rigueur.
By Anne Brodie But first, lately, I've become obsessed with the late Diana Vreeland, iconoclast and longtime editor of Harper's Bazaar and later Vogue, who then turned the staid Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its head. Prime Video has the 2011 doc Diana Vreeland: The Eye …
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Eddie Murphy, Harrison Ford, La Lopez, and Regular Folk’s Killer Stories.
By Anne Brodie Malcom is Missing, Robert Osborne and Jari Osborne's chilling documentary feature plays one night only this Sunday at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Port Hope, Ontario mother Brooke Mullins was alarmed when her father Malcom Madsen failed to return calls on his annual trip to Mexico …
Matthew Macfayden and Kevin R. McNally Star in Stonehouse, Reviving the Strange Case of the Infamous Lord Lucan.
Top left - John Stonehouse, Lord Lucan, Right - Matthew Macfadyen as Stonehouse, Below Left - Keeley Hawes and Macfadyen, married onscreen and off. Back in the 1970's eccentric British MP John Stonehouse, Lord Lucan, faced his difficulties by staging his own death across an ocean from London, his …