By Anne Brodie There are many opportunities to watch and celebrate Black content during Black History Month. TIFF Bell Lightbox offers the 30th-anniversary restoration of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx4sEvhYeVE the 25th-anniversary restoration of Hype Williams’ …
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Eddie Murphy, Harrison Ford, La Lopez, and Regular Folk’s Killer Stories.
By Anne Brodie Malcom is Missing, Robert Osborne and Jari Osborne's chilling documentary feature plays one night only this Sunday at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Port Hope, Ontario mother Brooke Mullins was alarmed when her father Malcom Madsen failed to return calls on his annual trip to Mexico …
The Human Comedy/Drama Laid Bare in This Week’s Entertainment. “It’s gonna be a bumpy ride!” (Margo Channing)
By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley's achingly poignant Women Talking, based on the book by ex-Mennonite Miriam Toews tells the fact-based story of women in an ultra-conservative religious colony in South America. They are victims of daily rapes, unwanted pregnancies, and physical and emotional abuse at …
Matthew Macfayden and Kevin R. McNally Star in Stonehouse, Reviving the Strange Case of the Infamous Lord Lucan.
Top left - John Stonehouse, Lord Lucan, Right - Matthew Macfadyen as Stonehouse, Below Left - Keeley Hawes and Macfadyen, married onscreen and off. Back in the 1970's eccentric British MP John Stonehouse, Lord Lucan, faced his difficulties by staging his own death across an ocean from London, his …
Regaining Life, Messing Up, Shocking History and Delightful Nasty Women!
By Anne Brodie Oliver Hermanus' shimmering character study Living with its cinematic beauty and equally beautiful story - and score - will pierce the hardest heart. A reworking of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film, Ikiru, is set in London's financial district. Herds of men in pin-striped suits and …
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