BY ANNE BRODIE Not to early to "flag" Canada Film Day on April 16th so you can plan your celebration of us, our culture, artistry, and elbows up pride. We will celebrate with a massive show of "our" content on all platforms, two thousand films in all - in one day. Talk about Oh, Canada! - and a …
Resistance, Murder, Music, Winter in Winnipeg and Wedding Whoopsies.
By Anne Brodie Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres has won multiple awards and nominations for her role as a wife and mother in Walter Salles I’m Still Here. Her sensitive yet muscular portrayal of Eunice, horrified by her former left wing congressman husband’s sudden disappearance under Brazil’s …
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Myth, Mystery, Murder, Merriment – What to Squeeze In This Weekend!
By Anne Brodie Greek mythology comes vividly to life in Uberto Pasolini’s the Return in theatres today. It tells the story of King Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) 1200 years before Christ’s birth who left Ithaca to fight the Trojan War on mainland Greece. For reasons that are not made clear beyond …
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Something for Everyone This Pre- TIFF Week!
BY ANNE BRODIE Jackie Shane was a Black trans singer from the American South whose remarkable personal and musical legacy is revived in the NFB documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. She found refuge in Toronto’s Yonge Street club scene that she loved and that loved back; her …
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Sex, Death, Camping, Transformation, Exorcism, Apes, Penguins etc. Yep.
By Anne Brodie Toronto’s Revue Cinema presents Caligula: The Ultimate Cut today, one of the most provocative mass market films of the seventies. From Bob Guccione and directed officially by Tinto Brass it stars some of the UK’s most respected stage actors- Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Teresa …
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