By Anne Brodie Netflix's highly anticipated Marilyn Monroe film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional biography of Norma Jean Baker and Marilyn Monroe takes an alternate look at the superstar who died too young. Norma Jean's ascent from poverty and abuse to one of the most famous women in …
Marilyn and Sidney, Canada’s Oscar Entry Lead This Week’s Screen Pix.
By Anne Brodie The much anticipated Netflix film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional take on Norma Jean Baker / Marilyn Monroe debuts Sept. 28. Oates' novel is shocking, lurid, and sex-obsessed, as is Andrew Dominik's nearly three-hour opus. It posits that Norma Jean was victimized from …
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Canada’s Poignant Oscar Entry Eternal Spring From Jason Loftus and Daxiong.
Documentarian Jason Loftus and artist /protester Daxiong pay a remarkable film tribute to the brave souls who carried out the 2002 hijacking of Chinese state TV to counter China's crackdown on the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. Daxiong, a renowned commercial artist was arrested, but unlike his …
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Brett Morgen on TIFF Fave Moonage Daydream, the Definitive David Bowie Doc.
Brett Morgen's brain melt of a documentary Moonage Daydream on the elusive David Bowie is like none other. The Bowie estate handed Morgen 5 million assets including never before seen footage, private concerts, interviews, and Bowie's own words on his 54-year career, his troubled childhood, beliefs, …
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Viola Davis Unbound, Witty Agatha Christie Extension and TIFF Takeaways.
By Anne Brodie Gina Prince-Bythewood's gobsmacking take on the historic warrior women of west Africa - the Dahomey Amazons - feels like a superhero epic but with living, breathing, relatable humans. The Woman King. The warriors are phenomenal - Viola Davis is power personified as Nanisca, …
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