Anne Brodie PBS’s American Masters presents Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You tonight, the first-ever documentary about the screen legend. Lear, now 92 and still hard at work, is responsible for changing our minds and appetites, showing life in a radical new way and enlightening millions of viewers about topics previously unaddressed on prime time television. All
An ambitious young Toronto newspaper reporter uncovers a story that has huge implications reaching the highest political office, a web of Somali gangsters and, for herself, imminent danger. The CBC’s gritty new crime drama Shoot the Messenger stars Elyse Levesque as Daisy Channing as the risk-taking reporter who will do anything to get the story.
Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness launch their new set-in-Toronto series Shoot the Messenger tonight. Set in the gritty world of gangs and police, Daisy Channing played by Elyse Levesque is a promising rookie newspaper reporter assigned to her first murder case. Thing is, she has a personal connection to the shooting of an alleged Somali
Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars as the lead character in the slave uprising historical drama The Birth of a Nation. It recounts the little known events of 1831 in Virginia when Nat Turner, a slave and preacher, led a two-day rebellion against white masters and their enforcers which ended in a massacre. Parker based the screenplay
The Toronto International Film Festival wound up this weekend and today the winners were announced. Ten days of screenings, special public events, master classes, question and answer sessions, red carpets, parties,junkets and people watching have come to a close. TIFF’s Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced the best of the best today at TIFF Bell
British TV lovers, take note. Acorn TV released its latest schedule of murder mysteries, police procedurals and original series featuring the best of Agatha Christie, Foyle’s, Poirot, a period Western set in the wilds of Yorkshire, a stunning, one-of-a-kind police series and a French miniseries that will send a chill through parents of teenaged girls. The
Just in time for the heat wave that covers most of North America comes the wilderness thriller Edge of Winter — set in the coldest, most dangerous heart of cold. Elliot Baker (Joel Kinnaman) is the estranged father of two boys, Caleb (Percy Hynes White) and Bradley (Tom Holland), whose ex-wife is leaving for a
Award winning Canadian documentary filmmaker Kevin McMahon has worked on his climate change documentary Spaceship Earth for thirty five years. He has seen firsthand the effects of climate change in the Arctic and traveled the world to speak with scientists, futurists, intellectuals and environmental warriors. His acclaimed ten hour film The Polar Sea set the
Film fans continue to bow down to an important event in cinematic criticism, when master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock sat down with French auteur/critic François Truffaut to answer a few questions. Their discussions took place in Hitchcock’s Universal offices over eight days in 1962, just a day longer than it took Hitchcock to shoot the shower
Violette, Julie Delpy’s character in the dark comedy Lolo, has a self-esteem problem. Every man she’s dated over the past twenty years has walked away from her, usually without explanation or apology. Violette has come to accept that she is undateable, unlovable, a loser in love. She finds comfort in her son Lolo and showers