English actor and comedian David Mitchell is new to me, but what a discovery! He’s crazy funny, quirky and physical in the BritBox Original Ludwig. Mitchell plays identical twins, John, a hermit singleton, a puzzle creator whose brain works in mysterious ways and James, an extrovert happily married to Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin). One day James vanishes. Lucy must wrest… View Post
By Anne Brodie Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist and host of the acclaimed podcasts Stolen and Missing & Murdered Connie Walker guest hosts a heartbreaking edition of CBC’s The Fifth Estate tonight. Walker follows a thirty-year-old case gone cold, the murder of Sonya Cywink of the Whitefish First Nation. Cywink’s sister Meggie launched her own investigation when it became clear that… View Post
Top – Sonya Cywink Bottom – Meggie Cywink and Connie Walker By Anne Brodie In 1994, 31-year old, pregnant Sonya Cywink from the Whitefish First Nation near Sudbury, was found murdered in a forest near London, Ontario. Thirty-one years later the case remains unsolved. Cywink’s sister Meggie has talken up the search for the truth by herself, in the face of… View Post
By Anne Brodie Rachel Mason’s excruciatingly revealing documentary Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna lays out the circumstances of the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, Director of Photography on the doomed Alec Baldwin western Rust. Mason, a close friend of Halyna was asked by Hutchins’ husband to make an investigative document of his wife’s completely avoidbale death inside… View Post
By Anne Brodie Atom Egoyan revisits opera in Seven Veils, the story of Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) who is restaging the opera Salome originated by her late, long-ago mentor. Richard Strauss’ 1905 production, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, is shockingly violent. Salome, an ancient ruler’s daughter loves John the Baptist. He doesn’t return that love, so she she performs a sensual… View Post
