Canadian actor Vinessa Antoine isn’t a lawyer but she plays one on TV. CBC’s Diggstown, now in its second season, centers on Marcie Diggs, a woman of integrity and empathy, an intrepid lawyer working in a Halifax firm. She’s no-nonsense and holds the highest standards of her profession – not always the easiest path. But given the cases she takes… View Post
Ken Loach is a social realist filmmaker whose films reveal the plight of the working class in Britain. His sharp focus on social, economic and other injustices has opened eyes for five decades. They are urgent and of the moment. In Sorry We Missed you, Loach turns his lens on the gig economy, an often-ruinous way of earning through freelance… View Post
by Anne Brodie We celebrate International Women’s Day with Hillary a fascinating documentary on one of the most influential women of modern times, Hillary Clinton. Hulu’s docuseries by Nanette Burstein captures the then-presidential candidate in 2016 leading up to, during and after she won but lost the presidency. It feels like an action thriller, the international intrigue in Russian interference,… View Post
by Anne Brodie Jessica Matten is a Cree and Metis actor from Alberta best known for her work on Blackstone, Frontier, Burden of Truth and the influential short A Red Girl’s Reasoning now being adapted as a feature film. Matten makes television history in the new series Tribal on APTN. She plays Sam Woodburn, a newly appointed Tribal Police Chief… View Post
By Anne Brodie Disappearance at Clifton Hill based on a childhood experience of writer-director Albert Shin has a deliciously noir vibe, set in the height of Niagara Falls’ neon grotesquerie, the strip joints, diners, seedy motels with barely a glimpse of the natural wonder that made it famous. Abby played by British vet Tuppence Middleton comes home when her mother… View Post
By Anne Brodie Albert Chin’s enigmatic mystery Disappearance at Clifton Hill takes place when Niagara Falls was at its tacky peak as an exploitative tourist trap. It’s inspired by an incident Shin witnessed as a child and it reverberates through our minds long after the film ends. As director and co-writer, Shin’s eerie psychological thriller verges on horror; the other… View Post