As Earth Month begins, I can’t help but think of its journey from creating environmental awareness and pushing for change in the 1970s to its current iteration; a 9-1-1 call for the planet. Despite decades of activism, we now find ourselves at a critical crossroads, facing the very real impacts of climate change and the awareness that the fossil fuel… View Post
By Anne Brodie Steven Zaillian’s black and white iteration of Patricia Highsmith’s evergreen psychological thriller simply called Ripley starts slow but by Ep 3, you’re done for, hooked, breathlessly anxious to see what follows. You can’t look away anymore. Andrew Scott’s black, blank eyes are effective as Tom Ripley constantly seeks targets and escape routes; he’s a liar and thief… View Post
As March swiftly transitions into April, I find myself eagerly anticipating the arrival of warm weather and gardening, especially after enduring one of the greyest winters on record here in Ottawa. The shift to longer days has also begun to lift my spirits, despite my hatred of Daylight Saving Time. What can I say except two things can be true… View Post
Tamson Grieg is Lady Helen Gwinear, an embittered shrew of a mother whose daughter Nell has run off to join a band of 17th-century highwaymen in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. It’s no wonder. Lady Helen runs some pretty rough business as head of her own criminal organization, but worse, she has no idea how to be a… View Post
Jodie Whittaker who you know as the only female Dr. Who, is Orla in BritBox’ gripping miniseries Time S2. Orla’s an impoverished single mother of three sent to prison for “stealing electricity” in desperation one cold winter. Her children are sent to live with her alcoholic mother, then taken into foster care; she’s lost them for a minor infraction. As… View Post
By Anne Brodie Willam Shatner says he’s always been alone, all his life, that women were distractions but not part of the full picture. He says he’s had no real friends but doesn’t want to be alone. Shatner’s part of a large family from four marriages with generations of descendants but still. And he’s pondering death. It feels like a… View Post