By Anne Brodie Let’s celebrate June Squibb! Hardworking, tiny, mighty, she has an uncanny acting gift - a mix of power and subtlety She’s enlivened more than 1oo films, including Nebraska for which she received an Oscar nomination, About Schmidt, The Humans and Thelma. First timer Scarlett …
Canada’s Oscar Entry in Theatres, Not Fade Away, Transition, Family, tr*mp Doc.
By Anne Brodie Universal Language, Canada’s 2025 Best International Academy Award entry, a TIFF hit, is a hoot! A brilliantly whimsical and highly original outrider taking us into a snowbound world of the surreal and bizarre. Director Matthew Rankin and writers Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati and …
Royal Fuss, Pinnochio Redux, Olivia Colman, Sex, Food!
By Anne Brodie Well, you have probably watched/binged all three episodes of Harry & Meghan available now on Netflix. The final three show up next Thursday. Liz Garbus certainly closes ranks with the formerly Royal scallywags and you have reached your own conclusions as to what version of …
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Danis Goulet’s Triumph, a Supporting Actor Stuns in His First Lead, Muppets, Fauci and Baked Goods!
Tim Blake Nelson in Old Henry By Anne Brodie Canadian Indigenous filmmaker Danis Goulet's Night Raiders, executive produced by Taika Waititi could not have come at a more poignant time. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Brooklyn Letexier-Hart are Niska and Waseese, mother and daughter living in the …
Tim Blake Nelson’s Slow Burn in Potsy Ponciroli’s Old Henry is Nothing Less Than Astounding. The Western Gets a Significant Upgrade.
Tim Blake Nelson is Old Henry, a hardworking farmsteader in the remote Tennessee grasslands of the old West. His teenaged son Wyatt (Gavin Lewis) is in full-on rebellion and planning to leave when Henry comes home with an injured man and a satchel of money. Henry takes care of the stranger but a …