By Anne Brodie Sarah Polley's achingly poignant Women Talking is based on the book by ex-Mennonite Miriam Toews concerns the women of an ultra-conservative religious colony in rebellion against generational sexual and domestic abuses by their men. Polley's star-studded cast of Rooney Mara, …
Royal Fuss, Pinnochio Redux, Olivia Colman, Sex, Food!
By Anne Brodie Well, you have probably watched/binged all three episodes of Harry & Meghan available now on Netflix. The final three show up next Thursday. Liz Garbus certainly closes ranks with the formerly Royal scallywags and you have reached your own conclusions as to what version of …
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Eddie Redmayne on His Phenomenal Performance in The Good Nurse
Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne plays a difficult role in Netflix' fact-based film The Good Nurse. He is Charlie Cullen, a gentle, smiling, apparently empathetic new hire at Oakfield Hospital in New Jersey, following a string of jobs in hospitals across the US. He bonds with nurse Amy Loughren played by …
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Everything Everywhere All At Once Redux.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, the multiple award-winning indie concerns a Chinese family doing taxes and running a laundromat. The matriarch is sent on an otherworldy, action-packed reality test, with her timid husband on a collision course with, well, everything. Along the way, they encounter …
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Tracey Deer Directs Episodes of Three Pines That Reflect a Disturbing Canadian Reality.
Tracey Deer won international acclaim with her fact-based film Beans, about an indigenous mother and her two young daughters caught up in the landmark 1990 Oka Crisis in Quebec as Mohawks protested the destruction of their sacred burial grounds for a golf course. Deer directs episodes of Amazon …