Anne Brodie As Evan Rachel Wood readily admits, her new film with Ellen Page, Into the Forest, contains “so many gruesome, horrible things”. But she adds: “There’s such a beauty to all of it at the same time.” Which, as we all know, is much like life — as Rachel Wood rightly points out. The pair’s new dystopian horror movie is
Jason Priestley returned home from Hollywood to Canada and made the multi-award winning comedy Call Me Fitz. He says he had so much fun making it, he stayed, and this season, Priestly launches two new series, a brainy family sitcom Raising Expectations and the detective comedy drama Private Eyes which he also executive produces. He
Suzanne Clement stars with Julie Depardieu and Johanna ter Steege in À La Vie — the story of three Nazi concentration camp prisoners who reunite fifteen years after the war for a beach vacation in France. They’ve lived separate, ordinary lives, but always mindful of the dark clouds of the past. Their plan is to
Acorn have an ever-growing selection of great British television shows for you to watch at home. Here are some of their latest offerings, including Janet King and Vera Series 6, which are both available at acorn.tv until their release on DVD later this year. Meanwhile, A Place to Call Home Season 3 along with And
National Canadian Film Day is a grand new tradition, now in its third year, to remind Canadians that the country has a rich and diverse legacy of films and that people need to see them. On Wednesday (April 20), 350 Canadian films will be shown across the country free of charge, in libraries, small town
Imajyn Cardinal, a gifted 16-year-old Cree actor, grew up on film sets watching her mother actress Michelle Thrush do her thing. Now it’s Cardinal’s turn to join the family business. Cardinal stars in Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s The Saver and appears in nearly every frame of the film. It’s about a girl in Montreal whose mother
Rudyard Kipling’s beloved The Jungle Book is being given new life as Disney releases its second iteration directed by Iron Man’s Jon Favreau. The original 1967 animated version was a huge hit. The latest version starring 12-year-old Neel Sethi is headed in that direction with its hyper real jungle environment, stunning cast of creatures and
Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club, and Café de Flore) has created another nearly perfect film. And he helped Jake Gyllenhaal, who has learned the value of Quebec’s gifted filmmakers, put in his strongest performance, outpacing even Nightcrawler. Bryan Sipe’s screenplay about a business executive transformed by the accidental death of his wife
Jake Gyllenhaal has found a sympathetic artistic partner in a second Quebec filmmaker, Jean-Marc Vallée, in Demolition. Gyllenhaal’s two films with Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners and Enemy) showed how far he was willing to go beyond the mainstream to find richly meaningful projects. Demolition takes him even further. It’s a stunning piece about Davis Mitchell, a
For sheer force of writing, direction acting and story, British television simply can’t be beaten. For all the slick, soon-forgotten artificial sludge including reality that dominates North American prime time TV, there are British series to be celebrated and admired. My current favourite is the BBC’s Prisoners Wives, a superior limited series that sounds like