Netflix’s Our Planet is a new eight-part documentary series from the team behind Blue Planet and Planet Earth that examines how climate change impacts all living creatures – reminding us that we’re all on one team. Adam Chapman (director/producer) and Keith Scholey (producer) filmed for more than four years in 50 different countries with a crew 600+, capturing “the breadth… View Post
Tim Burton’s Burtonesque Dumbo is exactly what we’d expect from the master of otherworldly, amusing goth. Moody sets, lighting, art design and weather are gloomy-to-dark, shot in waxing / waning golden hours or by night or in storms; things are best seen by candlelight or by limelight. But nothing outshines Dumbo’s beautiful, soulful blue eyes – he is special, the… View Post
One of India’s busiest actors, Anupam Kher is known for his prodigious body of work – 421 screen appearances! – not just in India but around the world, on the BBC, American network television, drama, comedy, period stories and contemporary works. Kher takes on a devastating event in Hotel Mumbai, a gripping minute by minute feature on the terrorist attacks… View Post
Vancouver’s Jessica Lucas returned home from Los Angeles last year with her very own homicide mystery series last year. The Murders, an eight-part police procedural on CityTV follows rookie homicide detective Kate Jameson as she begins a new chapter of her life. She’s smart, dedicated and ambitious but no one’s giving her an easy pass. It’s tough out there in… View Post
Montreal’s Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project’s a classic business thriller set in a world that’s unfamiliar to most of us, high stakes trading. It tells a gripping, fast-moving story that reveals the dark underside of institutions we depend upon. Jesse Eisenberg plays a frenetic Wall Street trader with a gift for persuasion who arrives at a scheme to make mega millions, damn… View Post
One of my favourite days on our national film calendar is just a month away. National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) is April 17. Prepare to be entertained by Canadian films to be shown in community spaces, free of charge from sea to sea to sea in “the world’s largest film festival”. Eight hundred Canadian films will be screened with a… View Post