Actress Gabrielle Union appears in Birth of a Nation without lines and only briefly, as a slave who has endured a sexual assault by white captors. Her appearance is powerful, not just in terms of the Nate Parker’s fact-based epic on the Nat Turner Rebellion in Virginia in 1831 when slaves rose up and slaughtered their oppressors, but as a… View Post
“Do you know the #1 thing North Americans want to see in Peru?” It was one of the first things our Vantage Adventures tour guide asked us when we landed in Lima. “They want to see “what’s next”. While some of us might have trouble shaking off our agenda focused, minute by minute focus when we travel, Peru is one… View Post
Mark Wahlberg stars in the fact-based action adventure film Deepwater Horizon although it seems strange to a film about a devastating ecological disaster and deadly oil rig explosion “action adventure”. Hardly seems like an adventure a person would want to take. The full environmental effects of the explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 are still… View Post
It’s Only the End of the World has just been named Canada’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Academy Award! The latest film from Canada’s youngest auteur, Xavier Dolan also won two prizes at Cannes and its finally opening in theatres. Dolan’s emotionally rigorous study of a young man (Gaspard Ulliel) returning home to his family after a 12… View Post
Ten days of screenings, special public events, master classes, question and answer sessions, meet-and-greets, red carpets, parties, press conferences, junkets, the almighty barbeque and people watching have come to a close. One thing remains for #TIFF16 – the presentation of the awards! TIFF’s Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced the best of the best today at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto…. View Post
With 75% of Canadian women being a size eight and up, it is now more than ever that the media landscape needs curvy women on the scene. Body acceptance and fat shaming have been all over the news in 2016, with the extremely thin, Selena Gomez, being called ‘fat’ in photos taken while on vacation and Ashley Graham, a plus-size… View Post