By Anne Brodie Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves reflects on life's quiet offside moments as two characters fallen on hard times find each other. A grocery cashier and a labourer working in Helsinki, Finland had bigger dreams for themselves, but living in squalor on tiny incomes has punctured those …
The Holdovers is Capturing Hearts with its Christmas Spirit. Here’s Why.
Alexander Payne's bittersweet and hilarious Christmas movie The Holdovers has captured movie fans' hearts this season. The 70's " period piece", emotional without being sentimental, concerns the goings-on at Barton Academy, a New England boarding school during Christmas break. A few student …
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Documentary Swan Song on Canada’s Beloved National Treasure Karen Kain
Karen Kain, our iconic and globally admired ballet star, recently left the National Ballet of Canada, her home of fifty years, capping thirty as principal dancer and almost twenty as Artistic Director. Chelsea McMullen's emotional and uplifting documentary series Swan Song follows Kain's triumphant …
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The Forgotten, Brilliant and Beautiful Rolling Stone.
Few people know that the late Brian Jones was the founder of the world's mightiest, most enduring band The Rolling Stones. His musical innovations, as a blues lover and early adapter of world music, gave the Stones an unmatched fusion sound with blues, zithers, harmoniums, and wind instruments - …
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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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