By Anne Brodie The groundbreaking legends fable One Night in Miami, a major hit at TIFF is finally available on Amazon Prime. Director Regina King is bound for awards glory, along with her actors for this rich and intense quadruple character study. Set in a motel room the night of Feb 25, 1964 (“that crucible year”), four Black legends gather… View Post
Frankie Drake Mysteries now in its fourth season on CBC and CBC Gem, follows the madcap adventures of a female private detective working Toronto’s mean streets, circa 1920. Lauren Lee Smith is the brilliant and worldly Frankie. Aided by three dynamic women, played by Chantel Riley, Rebecca Liddiard and Sharron Matthews, Drake is Toronto’s top private investigator. Each woman is driven by intuition, curiosity… View Post
By Anne Brodie Former author and full-time wit, Fran Lebowitz agreed to sit down with longtime friend Martin Scorsese and spill; what a treat! The 70- year old’s on-the-mark observations about life in the world’s busiest city are gems of imagination, word usage, speed and fancy, what Oscar Wilde might have been, had he been born a woman in New… View Post
Jennifer Spence is a multiple award-winning Canadian actor born in Toronto whose father happens to be British. Spence has worked ceaselessly in Canada the US and the UK on, among other shows, The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Life Sentence, Beyond, Van Helsing, Frequency, The Killing, Motive, Supernatural, Stargate Universe, and Exes & Ohs. What She Said’ Anne Brodie had the… View Post
By Anne Brodie Netflix debuts a clever, of-the-moment mockumentary on the state of things this past year; it’s all painfully, tragically, achingly there. Al Campbell and Alice Mathias’ Death to 2020 puts a deep (state) black comedy spin on Trump, COVID and its possibly true, never-said-out-loud origins, toxic US individualism, election chaos, the rise of the alt-right, nut-jobs, violence, lies, and the many… View Post
By Anne Brodie Emerald Fennell’s sharp revenge thriller Promising Young Woman is a well crafted story featuring a game changing performance by Carey Mulligan. She’s Cassie, victim of a brutal rape and she’s taken it upon herself to wreak vengeance and ruin on predators. The film opens late at night in bar where Cassie’s passed out drunk, legs akimbo, vulnerable… View Post