It's not often that a young actor has the opportunity to play a complicated character who undergoes experiences that fundamentally change her while spanning two time periods. But Sadie Laflamme-Snow who plays Alice in Hallmark Channel's The Way Home had what she calls a "masterclass". Her Alice …
Valentine’s Day Just Around the Corner, Love Stories de rigueur.
By Anne Brodie But first, lately, I've become obsessed with the late Diana Vreeland, iconoclast and longtime editor of Harper's Bazaar and later Vogue, who then turned the staid Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its head. Prime Video has the 2011 doc Diana Vreeland: The Eye …
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Entertainment, Thy Name is Variety. This Week Offers Something for Every Mood, and Stars, Has-Beens and Personalities!
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Ruben Östlund is back in his favourite place – the hotel. Bedrooms, dining rooms, common thoroughfares with balustrades, and a vibe of impermanence and mild dread as he looks through keyholes at couples not quite in tune. They struggle with the politics of their …
Stars of Vampire Academy on Lessons in Being Undead and Dead Romantic at St. Vladimir’s Academy.
St. Vladimir’s Academy tips the hat to the original literary and folktale-based vampire, Dracula (Drăculea), Vladimir II of Wallachia who took the name "Dracul" after being invested in the Romanian Order of the Dragon in 1431. Cut to contemporary times as fresh young students, vampires in training, …
Dune, Benedict, Cats, Espionage, Conspiracy, Two Alien Invasions, Circling the Wagons and Adele!
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain By Anne Brodie Denis Villeneuve, the pride of Trois Rivieres, Quebec, helms the second filmed adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal 1965 sci-fi masterpiece, the "unfilmable" Dune. An all-star cast takes us through the spice desert battlefields where House …