The biopic Whitney directed by Kevin Macdonald with full co-operation from her family, friends and associates and offers shocking revelations of her early life, including sexual abuse by a female relative, a long-term lesbian relationship and the extent of her drug addiction but the overwhelming takeaway is sadness. It’s heartbreaking to think a woman with Houston’s boundless talent and bright personality died… View Post
Award-winning British documentary filmmaker Tim Wardle has produced stories on law, crime and courts for television outlets in the UK and the US. His latest project Three Identical Strangers begins in the upper New York State, and looks at three men, Robert “Bobby” Shafran, Edward “Eddy” Galland and David Kellman, from different cities who discovered at age nineteen that they were identical triplets. Their… View Post
Well, friends, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp – the first female superhero named film – AND Evangeline Lilly is Canadian – is here, but I have no review. I was AWOL when Disney showed the film to press, taking a well-deserved break up north. Can you blame me in this scorching weather? However, a wasp pestered me, and there were ants aplenty… View Post
The world of health & wellness has become very saturated with information – almost too saturated if you ask me. The result is that we’re constantly being bombarded with information from a variety of sources, and oftentimes health-related discoveries can be contradictory. One day coffee is good, the next it’s bad. One day saturated fat is the devil, the next… View Post
Sicario released in 2015 and starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro was astounding in its radical look at the war on drugs at the US/Mexico border and the prices paid on both sides of the law. It is unusually gripping, even haunting, and from the point of view of a police / federal agents doing their extreme high risk… View Post
Drowning Rates in Canada Every year, the Drowning Prevention Research Centre Canada prepares a report for the Lifesaving Society of Canada. The latest data coming from the 2017 Canadian Drowning Report shows that there continues to be a long-term trend of decreasing drowning death rates in the country. In fact, in 2014, the number of unintentional water-related fatalities reported by… View Post