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, …
Filmed Entertainment Ramps Up and How.
By Anne Brodie Fargo is back, thank goodness. The series in its epic, deep firestorm of humanity's struggle to survive, created by Noah Hawley and now in its fifth season remains one of the finest series ever to appear on TV, up there with Twin Peaks. Set in small communities whether in the …
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Bringing a Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel to Life, Rendevous with Madness Opener, Parisian Love Problems and Eating at the End of the World
By Anne Brodie People flew and sailed from around the world to eat at KOKS, a two-star Michelin restaurant on a craggy ocean outcropping at Ilimanaq, Greenland. From the airport, they sailed to Koks, The Most Remote Restaurant in the World, run by Chef Poul Andrias Ziska. The haute cuisine …
From Unbridled Joy to Love and Dementia, Nordic Noir, a Name From the Past and Stand Up to Cancer!
By Anne Brodie Jules will make your heart swell with joy. Ben Kingsley in an outstanding performance as Milton, a small-town, Pennsylvanian, whose quiet life suddenly upends itself in a deus ex machina kind of way. Sure, Milton's elderly and slow and sometimes forgets things, but he manages to …
Two LGBTQ2S+Gems, Kim Cattrall’s Moment, What’s Tom Cruise Up To These Days?… and Is That Me Over There?
By Anne Brodie A psychological thriller out of Teheran explores the ideas of multiplicity, climate change, and coping with a life-changing event that can't be explained. Subtraction from Mani Haghighi at TIFF Bell Lightbox, and Vancity is a gripping story of inescapable doom. that unfolds during …