By Anne Brodie Azazel Jacob’s Netflix’s His Three Daughters concerns three estranged daughters (Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon) who gather to watch over their dying, beloved father Vinny (Jay O. Sanders). Coon’s Katie, the eldest daughter is always angry, and Olsen’s …
THis Week – Longing for the Past, Diving into the Future, Comedy, Tragedy, Chaos and Beauty.
Andrew Haigh's fantasy drama All Of Us Strangers packs an emotional punch strong enough to fell a person. It seems mundane enough at first. Andrew Scott is Adam, a writer working on a script in his high-rise London apartment; he looks out on the vast sky and bustling city below, but his thoughts are …
Timely and Powerful Indigenous Films, Celebrating Geraldine Chaplin, Royal Wedding Redux and Tantoo Cardinal!
Geraldine Chaplin and Jackie Ludueña Koslovitch in Holy Beasts By Anne Brodie Canada, drop everything and see Beans in theatres. This heart-tugging drama about a little girl caught up in a vicious cycle of racism and struggle is all too true. Images from July to September 1990, in Oka, …
We Celebrate Earth Day, the People and Animals That Share It and the Many Extraordinary Stories To Be Found.
Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown on HBO By Anne Brodie One of the many pleasures of the weighty and entertaining Nobody is witnessing Bob Odenkirk's Hutch emerging from a self-created shell of restraint. He's a family man with no hand with his wife (Connie Nielsen) or son (Gage Munroe) but …
Women Look After Themselves – Horror, Crime, Satanism and the Search for Justice.
By Anne Brodie First Cow is a deceptively simply told fable that gets under the skin and lingers. Two men in the Klondike have vague dreams of cashing in on the 1896 gold rush. Kelly Reichardt whose films I deeply admire takes us back in time to the brutal unforgiving north full of dreamers …