By Anne Brodie It landed Tuesday and most of you have seen it. Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is long. The opening two acts of more or less static, multi-face exposition, followed by long car chases in Rome and boat-and-bridge chases in Venice would have benefited from a fastidious …
History Made! Crowning a King in a Gilded Spectacle, Dance Your Troubles Away, Dystopia, Having Too Much Stuff and :) Muppets.
By Anne Brodie History will be made tomorrow and we are its witnesses. Few of us have seen the coronation of a British monarch. The last, Queen Elizabeth II, was 70 years ago. She served longer than any Monarch since Britain's organisation as a kingdom in early medieval times and was widely …
Dune, Benedict, Cats, Espionage, Conspiracy, Two Alien Invasions, Circling the Wagons and Adele!
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain By Anne Brodie Denis Villeneuve, the pride of Trois Rivieres, Quebec, helms the second filmed adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal 1965 sci-fi masterpiece, the "unfilmable" Dune. An all-star cast takes us through the spice desert battlefields where House …
TIFF Gems to Pocket, Michael Caine with Aubrey Plaza, and a Return to The Morning Show!
By Anne Brodie TIFF - Benediction, Terence Davies' biography of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden as a young man and soldier and Peter Capaldi as the embittered old man weaves the story of his life in classically style, elegantly and philosophically. Beginning with …