By Anne Brodie Friendship’s the thing in Pamela Aldon’s ribald and hilarious Babes, starring co-writer Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau as two best buds as they become mothers. Dawn (Buteau) is married with a toddler and is expecting another child any second now. Eden (Glazer) is deeply single, …
Two Lyrical Boyhooods, Heroic Women Don’t Quit, Cowboyin’, Murderous Tudors, and Oscar Heavies Finally Land on TV!
By Anne Brodie Chicago native Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama We Grown Now follows two best friends living in the notorious Cabrini-Green projects at the height of its drugs and crime waves. Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez) are spontaneous fun-loving kids, who love to jump …
The Magic Child, Elizabeth Moss Slays, Nic Cage’ Nutty Energy, Mississauga’s Potluck Ladies et plus
By Anne Brodie Sometimes a movie will knock you flat out. The King Tide is such a film. It's set on a wild, windy isolated island off Newfoundland and Labrador, where its population origins are cloaked in mystery. It’s a closed society, “mainlanders” are to be shunned and discouraged from showing …
Experience a Perfect Day, Women Face Reality, Hundreds of Beavers, and Mads Mikkelsen!!
By Anne Brodie Perfect Days, Wim Wenders' meditation on the everyday is a deep delight. Days in which a toilet cleaner carries out his morning and evening routines, does his job, takes a few simple pleasures and glory in the beauty of life, within busting Tokyo, with occasional human contact. …
Ambition’s Price, and Being Elsewhere.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative style brings to vivid, unforgettable life Four Daughters, a quasi-documentary about a family of Tunisian women mourning the disappearance of the eldest two daughters who were "devoured by wolves". Ben Hania as the real mother Olfa …
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