Toy Story 4 is everything you’d expect from this high calibre franchise – funny, warm, unexpected, beautifully made and rich with characters we’ve known for twenty-four years. And like its predecessors, TS4 is a wee bit subversive! All the best cartoons are. The awesome new character, Canadian Duke Caboom, played with aplomb by Keanu Reeves who happens to be on the… View Post
Late Night is the dose of woman power you’ve been seeking and it’s hilarious. Emma Thompson plays a successful, ageing national late-night talk show host at a crossroads; a recent dip in the ratings puts her under the gun. Ironically the female network head wants hers and the end, after thirty years, seems imminent. She won’t stand for it. Along comes… View Post
While entrepreneurship can be exciting and incredibly fulfilling, it’s not always as glamorous as many people assume it to be. As a solo entrepreneur myself, I know that self-employment can be stressful and time-consuming. I have to take on most of the responsibilities of the business myself, as I don’t have an accounting team or administrative assistant to balance my… View Post
Molly Shannon has pretty much toiled under the radar in recent years, in small roles and guest appearances, but she jets back to relevance in Madeleine Olnek’s excellent biopic Wild Nights with Emily. Shannon lowers the registers on her comic rawness to deliver a warm, funny, engaging, even sprightly performance as poet Emily Dickinson. Shannon plays her, not as the reclusive… View Post
Patricia Rozema’s ‘Mouthpiece’ follows a thirty-year-old Toronto woman for a short time, from the death of her mother to the funeral and eulogy. Cassandra’s in a tough place, trying to reconcile a lifetime with her mother and feel her feelings while organising the funeral and reception. It’s the universal story of primal loss, given bold new life through a unique… View Post
Taron Egerton vigorously assumes the persona of young Elton John in the musical fantasy Rocketman. which is markedly different from straight ahead Bohemian Rhapsody. Dexter Fletcher’s supple musical fantasy more akin to a stage play than biopic uses set pieces that flow into one another, tightly and brilliantly episodic, skipping from one eye-popping paragraph to the next. Fletcher’s mastery of its unique movement is breathtaking… View Post