Peter Strickland’s In Fabric isn’t for the faint-hearted or unimaginative moviegoer. It is demanding, challenging, off-putting and vexing, and it’s one of the most dazzling films of the year. It’s an hypnotic, fever dream following three people victimized by a red silk dress, purchased during the holiday department store sales in London. Strickland’s glorious multi-faceted high art comedy/drama/horror film stars… View Post
Fernando Meirelles The Two Popes is a rarity, an important true-life religious story, an intellectual and elegant psychological thriller with massive scale and palpable intimacy. It follows the world-altering events in the Roman Catholic Church in 2013 and the things that lie uncomfortably in two men’s hearts. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) contacts Pope Benedict (Anthony Hopkins), a German, to… View Post
There is great reverence for the late Fred Rogers, host of PBS Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and a poignant film now explores his effect on people. The late Presbyterian minister turned children’s friend and advocate had a way with people so new and graceful and revolutionary that he stunned TV audiences. He offered his studio front room as a welcoming home… View Post
What a year to be a sports fan in Toronto! We can’t recall a time this city was as riveted to its teams and athletes. We shared the heartbreak of the Leafs’ playoff run and TFC’s MLS final while we celebrated Bianca Andreescu’s shining breakout. And who can forget over a million people standing together to celebrate the Raptors. If… View Post
Here are some interesting quotes about legendary TV children’s show host Fred Rogers, from the stars and crew of the movie It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson and Chris Cooper, director Marielle Heller and Tom Junod, a cynical journalist turned believer who wrote about Rogers in his Esquire article Can You Say…Hero? … View Post
Netflix’ Marriage Story, written and directed by Noah Baumbach based on his own and others’ true divorce experiences is a searing portrait of the crash and burn of love. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver who no longer recognise who they’ve become in a bitter bi-coastal war that threatens their sense of stability and love and relationships with their young son…. View Post