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By Anne Brodie Netflix’s pulse pounder mini series Hostage is such dark fun. It concerns the relationship between two female national leaders, left leaning British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton (Suranne Jones) and conservative French President Vivienne Toussaint (Julie Delpy) they are at odds …
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Carolina Bartcza stars as Abigail in Season 3 of the CBC sci fi emotional thriller series Plan B, an English adaptation of a French-language Quebec series of the same name. The original’s Its darkness carries forward in the English version tempered with touches of humour and the surreal. Abigail Is …
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By Anne Brodie Jack Kerouac, his landmark book On the Road and the Beat era came before me, and was not a topic of conversation. But his legacy roars back to life in Ebs Burnough’s impressive doc Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation, a well-made collage of reminiscences those who knew him and …
By Anne Brodie The Naked Gun stars the oh so serious actor Liam Neeson as Det. Frank Drebin – a head scratcher- until we see how much fun the Irish brooder is having playing the role originated by Leslie Neilson back in 1988. Both actors smashed their dramatic images to smithereens in playing the …
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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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