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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Canada’s Beloved Emily Hampshire Sequeys From Schitt’s Creek to an Attack on the North Sea Oil Rig She Commands.
Emily Hampshire made an astounding move from the small-town comedy of the global sensation Schitt's Creek to leading a dominantly male crew aboard an oil rig in Ireland's treacherous North Sea. The Rig stars Hampshire as Rose who runs a traditionally male dominion; she faces up to discrimination and …
Two Life-Altering Road Trips, Food Wars, a Scandal That May Have Affected You!
By Anne Brodie Kore-eda Hirokazu's astounding drama Broker, starring Song Kang Ho's delicate cinematic touch lands a devastatingly emotional punch. Baby brokers Sang-hyeon and Dong-soo (Dong-won Gang) sell orphans left in their Baby Box to childless couples wishing to avoid governmental …