By Anne Brodie Big news this week! The 20th-anniversary 4K restoration release of Ang Lee’s masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The quadruple Oscar-winning landmark film, a departure for Lee whose prior work included Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, and later Brokeback Mountain, changed the action genre. Lee’s sweeping cinematography, and stupendous, gravity-defying fight choreography, with… View Post
It’s not often that a young actor has the opportunity to play a complicated character who undergoes experiences that fundamentally change her while spanning two time periods. But Sadie Laflamme-Snow who plays Alice in Hallmark Channel’s The Way Home had what she calls a “masterclass”. Her Alice navigates a myriad of emotional experiences under distinctly differing times, events, sensations and… View Post
In her latest documentary, “What We Deserve,” Canadian filmmaker Shelley Jarrett sheds light on the long-standing issue of colonialism and the slave trade in relation to the British monarchy. The film, co-produced and written by Andrew Terry Pasieka, will be screened on February 18 at the Burlington Library and will be available for public release on Eventive on February 19th…. View Post
By Anne Brodie But first, lately, I’ve become obsessed with the late Diana Vreeland, iconoclast and longtime editor of Harper’s Bazaar and later Vogue, who then turned the staid Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on its head. Prime Video has the 2011 doc Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel a heady, spicy, and utterly joyous experience,… View Post
Lily Gao Brittany Bristow Camille Stopps Chantel Riley Nicole, Sydney, Lauren, and Tara Nicole met ten years ago at a New Year’s Eve party and bonded over the precarious state of their love lives. They vow to be there for one another when love goes wrong and sure enough, ten years later, each calls the club for help. In four… View Post
By Anne Brodie There are many opportunities to watch and celebrate Black content during Black History Month. TIFF Bell Lightbox offers the 30th-anniversary restoration of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, the 25th-anniversary restoration of Hype Williams’ Belly. Also a 1990s Black cinema retrospective and special events and speakers, and available to watch online are Beba Breaking, Learn to Swim, Nope, Test… View Post