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, …
Aiming at Happiness … Looking for Justice, Fulfilment, and Answers on the Big Screen.
By Anne Brodie Michael Keaton directs himself in Knox Goes Away an intense crime drama about an assassin's lapse into dementia. military and got into a murder-for-hire and cleanup racket headhunted for his skills by Al Pacino's boss. Knox's diagnosis of rapid spiralling means he has to set things …
The Holy Grail, Nyad, Influencers, Inside North Korea, Satirising PEI, Gothic Alberta and Coming of Age in Ontario.
By Anne Brodie Tough family drama on the remote farmlands of Alberta, as a farming community struggles to earn a living and keep trouble at bay. Farms that withstood generations of hardscrabble life and an ongoing litany of back-breaking labour face all new threats, in this case, succession. It's …
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 …
Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael Plays with Fire in New Thriller
By Anne Brodie. Downtown Abbey’s shy flower Lady Edith played by Laura Carmichael, scandalously gave birth to a baby out of wedlock and handed it over to others to raise while she figured out what to do. Carmichael stars as Aggie in the new Australian thriller series The Secrets She Keeps on …
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