By Anne Brodie In 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot to death on the set of Rust when Alec Baldwin fired his prop gun that was loaded with a live round. Protocol calls for guns on movie sets to be loaded with dummies – no live ammunition, just a big bang. But Baldwin’s gun contained live ammunition and tragically he… View Post
By Anne Brodie A ninety-year-old woman who lives alone in the woods on a 54 acre property knows what we’ve all been grappling with for years – how to live easily on the earth and work with it for our needs, our joys and our belonging. Mennonite Agatha Bock is the subject of the documentary Agatha’s Almanac; she calls a… View Post
By Anne Brodie Australian actor Jacob Elordi’s current heartthrob status will bring folks in to see Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses in theatres April 25. And boy, do we get to see a lot of him. He’s Julius, brother of Lee (Will Poulter), who is married to Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones); they live in her isolated childhood farmhouse in Kansas. Julius… View Post
Anne Lambe is one of the hottest stars around right now thanks to the Netflix global release of its CBC / ATPN co- production, North of North. Lambe is Siaja, an outspoken, free-thinking wife and mother whose life is a dumpster fire at the moment. Literally. Shot in Nunavut, Canada, Lambe was raised in Iqaluit but her family is from… View Post
By Anne Brodie Switzerland is a wealthy country, but it has failed to keep an unnamed mother and her three small children from falling into desperate poverty and increasing lawlessness. Ophélia Kolb leads the cast of The Courageous; she’s three months behind on rent and faces an unkind future, finding shelter where she can, an empty house that’s on the… View Post
I consider myself a fairly principled person, primarily because of a very humbling, very embarrassing lie I was caught in during my late teens. I won’t bore you with the details, but let’s just say it left a mark. A permanent one. Thirty-eight years later, that moment still lives rent-free in my prefrontal cortex. It’s become a weird moral compass… View Post