By Anne Brodie Twice Colonized opens this year’s 30th annual Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27. Filmmaker Lin Alluna focused her lens for seven years on Inuit lawyer and sealskin clothes designer, Aaju Peter. She was indeed ‘twice colonized”. The first time Peter was taken alone as a child of eight, from her Greenland home to Denmark, to be… View Post
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Richard Madden, Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville star in Prime Video’s fierce new spy thriller Citadel, from creator David Weil. It is a fresh, vital entry with complex, unusual characters, time jumps, and thrills that take us behind the scenes of global war. Throw in Bond-esque games between two forces Citadel, a force for good and restoring… View Post
David Cronenberg’s iconic 1988 film Dead Ringers starred Jeremy Irons as twin gynecological surgeons who switch personalities at will while carrying out horrifically gory operations. Prime Video’s new series Dead Ringers re-imagines the story with Rachel Weisz as the twins in a new universe that holds the old and twists it for an all-new experience. What She Said’ Anne Brodie… View Post
Filmmaker – and architect – Catherine Hardwicke reteamed with Toni Collette and flew to Italy’s wine country to make Mafia Mamma, a rom-com with mob hits. Colette plays an American housewife and mother who inherits a mafia empire when her grandfather dies. Completely unprepared for this sort of world, all she wants is to eat, pray and love in Italy… View Post
By Anne Brodie Kelly Reichardt’s fourth collaboration with Michelle Williams Showing Up is in many ways removed from the three prior. Its power and subtlety are there but come late in the story, preceded by a long, meditative setup. Williams is Lizzy, a sculptor of female figures in flights of fancy; her first major show is coming up in a… View Post
Photo Credit: Richie Lubaton Forty-five years after Grease, the landmark John Travolta Olivia Newton-John musical, Paramount+ returns, four years prior to the original film’s time period. It’s back to Rydell High where tweenagers battle it out for social supremacy through singin’ and dancin’. It’s one of the most joyous series this season, irresistible to music lovers and fans of the… View Post