By Aly Pain “Congratulations on your baby girl! She’s beautiful. As she grows up, remember this… They’ll never be a relationship more important to her than the one she has with you. Every word you speak to her will become her truth. Her job isn’t to help you heal your past with your mom. It’s your job to show her… View Post
Private eye Lu Shakespeare and her partner Frank Hathaway outsmart local police in solving whodunnits, whether it’s an ageing rocker criminally gaslighted by his daughter, a career criminal laughing gassed into surrender, or a body where a body shouldn’t be. All in a day’s work for these thoroughly modern detectives who toil in the Tudor patch of you-know-who, on cases… View Post
By Anne Brodie Clark Johnson’s powerful David and Goliath drama Percy tells the true story of Percy Schmeiser (Christopher Walken) a Canadian organic canola farmer who stood up to Monsanto, the American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation and won. The company had taken unfair advantage of farmers for decades, but then they trespassed on Schmeiser’s property and took crop samples and sued… View Post
Sarah Megan Thomas was fascinated by the history of female spies in WWII, particularly American Virginia Hall, an ex-pat living in France determined to save her beloved adopted country from the Nazis. Thomas researched, wrote, directed and stars as Hall in A Call to Spy which she told What She Said’ Anne Brodie, was a labour of love.
By Anne Brodie Netflix takes us to a time not unlike our own in the excellent film, The Trial of the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin revisits the protest-turned-riot outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago when high profile yippies Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Bobby Seale spoke out against the white patriarchy, the polarising Vietnam war,… View Post
Christopher Walken plays the real-life Canadian canola farmer who takes on the agrochemical giant Monsanto in Percy. It’s a slow burn corporate thriller, based on a 1998 lawsuit filed against Percy Schmeiser, a David and Goliath story, pitting a 70-year-old farmer against the multinational. Monsanto sued when they secretly accessed his crops, took samples, and found traces of their own… View Post