Two of today’s leading actresses Cherry Jones and Vera Farmiga play CEO and a doctor in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s chilling, fact-based series about events in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck. We follow them making tough decisions, trying to maintain life against a tsunami of injured patients and people needing shelter under extraordinary circumstances. We learn that… View Post
A new interpretation of the enduring story of women forming a baseball league as their men fight World War II manages to straddle two cultures. Women pre-liberation didn’t enjoy the cultural freedoms we have today, but Prime Video’s energised, modernised series goes there. Melanie Field plays Joy an openly gay player, and D’Arcy Carden is Greta, who sees social change… View Post
Beloved and versatile British actor Jim Broadbent’s body of work is as varied and long as any actor’s. He released four films and series in the last few months and now stars in Roger Michell’s heist adventure The Duke. It’s the highly entertaining true story of disabled old age pensioner Kempton Bunton who, in 1961, stole Francisco Goya’s portrait of… View Post
By Anne Brodie His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will judge a reality series, to be seen exclusively in Canada on Makeful starting August 10. Prince Charles will name the winner from six amateur British craftspeople – a wood carver, blacksmith, stone carver, pargetter, stained glass artist; and weaver – whose skills have been passed down for hundreds of… View Post
Everybody has heard the expression “Never burn bridges.” True to a certain extent. However, I’m talking about mental/emotional bridges that keep you linked to unhealthy things, behaviours and people. Hence, taking a match and setting those bridges on fire is, in fact, beneficial and essential to your mental well-being. It’ll break the link that’s causing you undue pain, holding you back,… View Post
Prey, the Predator origins story, stars Amber Midthunder as Naru, a Commanche woman, circa 1750 living on the American Great Plains. Naru is an adventurer and hunter, much to the dismay of the male hunters who see her as an interloper. But she’s the one who recognises that a fearsome threat has landed, a creature and energy with the power… View Post