By Anne Brodie Canadian celebrity chef and actor Matty Matheson’s YouTube channel is a hit and now he's landed a cooking series on Netflix. However, Just a Dash is the only cooking show that made me lose my appetite. He feeds the public in twelve restaurants and NEVER WASHES HIS HANDS., even …
Revisting Disaster: a Twist, Sixties Scoop Fallout and a Haunting Pastoral.
By Anne Brodie Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice and Michelle Thrush lead a small cast in Meadowlarks from Tasha Hubbard. They’re Cree siblings - Anthony, Connie, Marianne and Gwen, taken from their shared mother and sent to non-Indigenous homes. The Canadian government took by force …
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Love’s Expectations, Love Letters, Love Compromised & More
By Anne Brodie Can’t remember the last time a film made me feel queasy and then Oh, Hi! happened. Sophie Brooks’ unflinching look at love and cruelty stars Molly Gordon as fun loving but intense Iris. She’s dating Isaac (Logan Lerman) an easy-going charmer ; theyre spending their first …
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The National Film Board Honours Canada’s Governor General’s 2024 Arts Laureates.
By Anne Brodie Meet the 2024 Governor General artistic laureates in their natural habitats in a new series of seven short films. The National Film Board of Canada commissioned filmed profiles averaging 3 – 5 minutes and one at 23 to honour Canadian performing artists of excellence, via “portraits …
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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