Ah, the Yukon! More than just a land of pristine wilderness and gold rush relics, it’s now leading the charge in a different kind of precious commodity – health awareness. A bold experiment that married Health Canada funding and the Yukon Liquor Corporation’s bold initiative might just have brewed a potent cocktail of a lesson for the rest of Canada…. View Post
Brad Garrett, one of the most familiar and beloved faces in American pop culture pairs up with Patricia Arquette in Apple TV+’s new series High Desert. Warning: High Desert is flat-out wacky, weird and wonderful. They play private investigators with problems – devious art thieves, murder and mayhem, addiction and a rapidly emptying bank account. Garrett tells What She Said’… View Post
By Anne Brodie Vadim Perelman’s WWII slow-burn Persian Lessons looks at an event that couldn’t possibly be true. Set in 1942 in a Nazi Germany concentration camp and based on real events it’s the story of a rabbi’s son who goes to dizzying extremes to save his life; every moment that passes without the truth being discovered is agonising. Gilles… View Post
Marie Clements’ one-hundred-year saga of the lives of an indigenous family in Canada is a work of art, transcendent and essential. Grace Dove is Aline, stolen from her family by the government and placed in a residential home run by sadistic nuns and priests, a fate all too common in our history. Aline persists and thrives, as an example of… View Post
By Anne Brodie Mary Harron’s Daliland on Salvador Dali’s later years in New York and Spain isn’t a great movie – but it’s great fun. It’s 1974, a happening time in Manhattan’s elite arts and social circles. Dali (Sr Ben Kingsley) and his tempestuous muse/wife Gala (Barbara Sukowa) are ensconced at the St. Regis Hotel for their twentieth winter. Dali… View Post
So another summer up north at the cottage and you’d think the extended family would settle in for some r and r. But no, a succession war between sister and brother Justin and Maisy May that broke out last season takes on a new and terrifying element with an unexpected arrival. Similar to a plague of locusts but not. What… View Post