Victor Kossakovsky’s Aquarela features zero narration, near zero conversation, but its alarmingly loud. Through the sounds of water rushing, ice shattering and splintering without interruption, we learn that global warming is accelerating, no words necessary, the images scream for themselves. The film opens on Siberia’s frozen Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake where the thaw has come too… View Post
One of the most powerful anti-war films ever made turns forty on August 15th and director Francis Ford Coppola is releasing Apocalypse Now: Final Cut in limited theatrical and DVD release. He says the original was “too clipped”, REDUX is “too long”, and this new version, it’s the way he originally intended it, “just right”. Restored from the original negative, the mind-bending landmark film,… View Post
Kelvin Harrison Jr. is Luce a child soldier adopted from Eritrea by an American couple played by Naomi Watts and Tom Roth. As they will tell anyone who’ll listen, they’ve handed their lives over to help him make the transition and it’s paid off – he’s an A student, athlete, good guy and school leader. So why doesn’t History and Government… View Post
You can catch Kate Wheeler’s daughter, actor-dancer Alex Beaton on W’s The Good Witch. Having seen Alex perform as a wee child onstage at the Shaw Festival, I’ve seen her grow and work hard and develop a very cool body of work. The Next Step made her a star with a huge international following and now she’s taking more grown-up roles…. View Post
Honeyland, an award-winning documentary by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov offers a look inside a world few of us will ever see. An impoverished indigenous Turkish woman lives in a hut in the Macedonian mountains with her severely disabled mother. They have no electricity, water or roads but she can’t move away. But Haditze Muratova is resilient and positive and makes the most of… View Post
I’m torn by “Quentin Tarantino’s Ninth Film”, the beautifully realised Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. Set in LA in 1969 and crammed with references to every cultural thing that existed then – TV ads, celebrity, TV westerns, spaghetti westerns, pop music, grocery branding, karate, macho men, ad infinitum, Tarantino dares to reimagine one of the most shocking crimes of that… View Post