What She Said

  Fargo, one of the most consistently superior and celebrated TV series these days is finally back for Season Three following a two year wait . Ewan McGregor, the second British actor to play the lead in three seasons, with Martin Freeman in the first series, plays a rather astonishing dual role.   He is businessman and family man Emmit Stussy… View Post

Terrence Malick has been my favourite filmmaker since Days of Heaven in 78. Malick wrote and directed only twelve features since 1973, the classic era of four films from Badlands to The Tree of Life.  From 2012, Malick started churning them out – six films in five years.  Malick’s classic films are jewels, set in nature, alive with vivid human… View Post

Berlin, in the middle years of World War II was a place of outer strength and inner fear. Ordinary Germans were beginning to realize that Hitler’s monstrous policies had to be stopped but it was not possible to rally opposition. To step out of line against the Nazi regime was a death sentence. One working class couple Anna and Otto… View Post

[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef_RPoBIwfI” width=”500″ height=”300″] Connor Gaston’s sombre psychological drama The Devout takes place in a small Canadian religious community and looks at “paranormal” occurrences that raise questions about reincarnation, faith and dying. A youngster named Abigail (played by Olivia Martin) who is dying of brain cancer tells her father Darryl (Charlie Carrick) that she was on the Apollo 8 Space… View Post

Movie & TV reviews by Anne Brodie, BFCA BTJA AWFJ TFCA FIPRESCI The Zookeeper’s Wife based on Diane Ackerman’s best-selling novel recounts the true story of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, keepers of the Warsaw Zoo who helped save hundreds of people and animals from Nazi occupiers during WWII. Chastain who also executive produced stars as Antonia who put herself and her family… View Post