Anne Brodie Laura Dern’s presence in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild is ethereal and steeped in memory and love. She’s Bobbi, the late mother of Reese Witherspoon’s character Cheryl. Bobbi died young of cancer which tipped her daughter into drug addiction and years of bad decisions. One day Cheryl embarks on a thousand mile solo trek to come to terms with
Eco filmmaker Andrew Nisker’s about to raise alarms regarding a pervasive daily habit many of us share. His latest documentary The Dark Side of the Chew closing the 15th annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival this Sunday lifts of the veil off gum pollution. It’s a complex problem that like smoking is widespread and initially seemed
North American TV Anglophiles listen up! Some superb new (to us) murder /police procedurals from over ‘ome are now available on Acorn TV for streaming this month. I have a huge bias towards British television dramas in all genres, because I find Americans ones, in general, to be written by committee and aimed at the
Robert Pattinson appears in his second film with Canada’s king of darkness, David Cronenberg. He’s an aspiring actor who is really a chauffeur in Maps to the Stars, Cronenberg’s searing satire on Tinseltown. Pattinson’s performance shows that, as in Cosmopolis, Cronenberg pushes him to new heights as an actor and adds new and surprising elements
Gracepoint, Fox and Global TV Thursday, 9 PM ET/PT. The Leo and Gemini award winning actress best known as Battlestar Galactica’s Jean Barolay brings a world of experience to her performance. We spoke with Down. Broadchurch Alison, did you watch Broadchurch when it first aired in Canada? What did you think? I actually
Jake Gyllenhaal ‘s superb performance as a morally challenged TV news cameraman is pure minimalist intensity. His character Lou Bloom is fascinated by true crime and haunts scenes around LA. Bloom takes his cues from the news videographers he sees vying for the most graphic footage at crime and accident sites. He realises that taking up
The bitingly brilliant Force Majeure is a dark comedy that shakes the bedrock of conventional family values, and the social fabric. Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund sets us up with an average family on vacation in the French Alps. Father, mother and two children are about to enjoy “quality time” with one another, their first chance in a long while,
John Wick is such a visceral and active film and its about vengeance fulfilled. It’s a good kick in the head! A date movie! I think the movies fun and you go on a ride, certainly a journey. He’s a mythical assassin, he falls in love, gets out of the dark world, and then she dies.
John Cusack broke out young in phenomenally successful John Hughes projects and has managed to sustain a successful career since, more than 30 years. He’s learned a lot of lessons about Hollywood. And that’s why he lives in Chicago. We spoke with Cusack during the Toronto International Film Festival about early fame and movie
The Guest is an unusual film because it hits so many notes and defies the single genre stereotype. It’s scary, exhilarating, darkly comic and LOL-worthy. It stars Dan Stevens –Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey – transformed into David, a psychopathic serial killer from Kentucky who tracks down the family of a recently deceased army buddy.