If you’d like to be blasted out of your post-holiday complacency, then run don’t walk to see a radically transformed Nicole Kidman in the action thriller Destroyer. Stalking gangsters with heavy weaponry and attitude, she’s a disturbed, driven cop out to right a wrong dating back to a traumatic event. The look in her dead eyes tells the story, and every drop… View Post
Are you an over-packer? Are phrases like “emergency outfit”, “extra jeans just in case” and “after dinner shoes” apart of your travel vocabulary? Checked baggage fees may make you rethink your packing technique. Lifestyle expert Lena Almeida has tips for travelling with carry on luggage only: 1. Edit your wardrobe. Here are two things I want you to remind yourself of… View Post
Now that it is legal, do young drivers know the law and consequences of driving with THC in their system? Bill C-46, the Cannabis Legalization Bill, took effect on October 17, 2018. This Bill legalized recreational use and possession of Cannabis in certain quantities. In addition, Ontario passed the Cannabis Act, 2017 to further restrict its use. Its objective was… View Post
Travis Knight’s lively and kid-friendly holiday sci-fi Bumblebee has a lot going for it. Hailee Steinfeld, a southern Cali teen living in the 80’s, is attempting to separate from childhood and parental rules. She’s a skilled car mechanic who hangs out at a junkyard, dreaming of independence. One day she stumbles across a cute yellow VW bug that’s dusty and non-functioning and presto! her chance to put her skills… View Post
Opening next Wednesday Dec 19 is the marvellously entertaining Mary Poppins Returns, a nostalgic, low tech delight that finds Mary returning to the Banks siblings (Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw) just when she‘s needed most. It’s thirty years later and times are tough. Michael, now a banker with two children, has lost his wife and faces the family’s first Christmas without… View Post
The Favourite is a gloriously over-the-top and occasionally revolting look at England’s Queen Anne, 1665 – 1714. Director Yorgos Lanthimos who gave us The Lobster paints pungent pictures of a court that is equally funny and distressing and of Queen Anne, a woman in a permanent daze and occasional rage, surrounded by dangerously ambitious courtiers. She throws up quite a bit… View Post