By Anne Brodie Last Summer (L'été dernier) is a shocker. Hold on to your hats. Anne (Léa Drucker) is a lawyer who berates her client, a teenager, telling her that drinking and having sex with seven men one night makes her a world-class slut in the eyes of the judge in her upcoming trial. The girl …
A Fun Week for Nostalgia, Taxicab Confessions, Phenom Lily Gladstone, Two Great Feature Debuts, Mystery and Pet Notes from Europe.
By Anne Brodie Agnieszka Holland‘s devastating Green Border lays bare the harsh, horrific realities of Europe’s refugee crisis faced by those escaping war and oppression in Africa and the Middle East. Since 2015, waves of people have undertaken journeys, mostly by foot to get to friendly …
Anna Chancellor: I Don’t Act To Be Liked. I Don’t Act To Be Fancied. My Lady Jane’s Raunchy Mama Goes for Broke!
The wonderfully bawdy, purposely historically inaccurate, and utterly hilarious series My Lady Jane looks at a succession war in the Tudor English royal court of 1553. The magnificent Anna Chancellor is Lady Frances Grey, mother of Jane who, in this version is not executed at age 16 but goes on to …
This Is The Week We’ve Been Waiting For! Worthy Women’s Stories, Well Told and Worth Your Time.
By Anne Brodie Lena Dunham’s 1980s meditation on the father-daughter relationship in Treasure is authentically emotional. She’s Ruth, a journalist who joins her Polish American father Edek, played by Stephen Fry, on a trip to Warsaw Poland to see the places of his past. He’s a Holocaust …
Not the Greatest Week at the Movies, Thank Goodness for Streamers and Film Fests!
By Anne Brodie Richard Gere stars in Longing, a romantic drama partly shot in Kitchener and Hamilton, with a peculiar bent. Adapted from writer-director Savi Gabizon’s own 2017 film, it’s a story of loss and hoped-for redemption. Gere is Daniel who meets his Canadian ex-Rachel (Suzanne Clément) …