By Anne Brodie Isolation Mood: Intrigue. Here are my picks for you for the week, bound together by certain themes, mixed moods, growing claustrophobia and the weird, wild world of human nature. Let’s start with the Fargos. The original film: And the FX series currently shut down on production for Season 4 Twin Peaks original series and Twin Peaks reboot The Witch The Lighthouse Oscar… View Post
How Does an Australian Play American Women’s Liberation Heroine Gloria Steinem? Rose Byrne Nails It on FX on Hulu’s Mrs. America.
By Anne Brodie Australian Rose Byrne joined fellow Aussie Cate Blanchett to play leading American political icons of the seventies, respectively, women’s liberation leader and feminist Gloria Steinem and anti-women’s lib and anti-abortion provocateur Phyllis Schlafly in the excellent new series Mrs. America. They were fighting for the hearts and souls of Mrs. and Ms. America, epitomizing the battle between… View Post
Nine Year Old Brooklynn Prince Scores in Home Before Dark Now on AppleTV+
By Anne Brodie Brooklynn Prince who won our hearts in the Oscar-nominated The Florida Project, is a multi-award-winning actor and director and she’s all of nine years old! Prince stars in Home Before Dark on Apple TV in a most unusual role. Her character Hilde’s father took her along to crime scenes when he worked the beat in New York… View Post
Cate Blanchett Plays Phyllis Schlafly, the Mother of Six Who Changed the US in Mrs. America,
By Anne Brodie Cate Blanchett executive produces and stars as a conservative force of nature, the late Phyllis Schlafly in Mrs. America April 15th exclusively on FX on Hulu. Schlafly is the woman who effectively squashed the US Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the late seventies, through the sheer force of her personality, strategic use of language and fear. She… View Post
Life Without School … Supportive Parenting during the Covid-19 Pandemic
By Stephanie Sewell In “normal” times, in my work as an independent education consultant, I support families who are at the intersection of schooling and homeschooling. I have lived both in my own life – I am a former school teacher, long-time homeschooling parent whose kids now go to school. And, of course, I am currently, like all of you,… View Post
Great Genre-Spanning Picks to Help Us Get Through This!
By Anne Brodie The 70’s Golden Age of Film Let’s get into the Wayback Machine to sample iconoclastic films of the decade that changed everything. Politics, society, and art were evolving at a rapid rate and young pioneering filmmakers enjoyed support from an awakening, wealthy Hollywood and created an unparalleled body of work. Here’s a wee primer. Terrence Malick’s early… View Post
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