Do you feel stuck like you are caught in a rut? Tired of doing the same thing over and over and yet still not getting anywhere? You could be sabotaging your own happiness and not realize it. If what you have been doing to move your life forward is keeping you stuck then something is not working. It is worth… View Post
Skymed follows a young flying healthcare team in remote northern Manitoba that depends on its own grit, knowledge, and intuition by necessity. Nurses, pilots, and support workers are hundreds of miles from the nearest hospitals as they deliver babies, save accident victims and treat illnesses so they must give 110%. But they also know how to unwind. Natasha Calis is… View Post
By Anne Brodie Sir David Attenborough’s Profiles Plant Life on BBC Earth’ new series The Green Planet, one of the best produced and most breathtaking nature docs I’ve seen starts with this statement “Every mouthful of food that we eat, every lungful of air that we breathe, depends on plants”. From Attenborough’s study of Maple trees in Northern Ontario and… View Post
By Anne Brodie Elvis, Baz Lurhman’s 2-hour and 39-minute hallucination fable comes at you like shot from a pellet gun, blasting from one nerve point to the next in rapid, head-spinning succession, bouncing from style to style, plot point to end-it-all motifs to tight closeups of Austin Butler’s sensuous Elvis-like lips to pensive Elvis to runaway hips Elvis to mama’s… View Post
Inuit filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk’s genre-busting Slash/Back is probably the sweetest film of its kind, a sci-fi variation on Little Women, set in remote Pangnirtung, Nunavut, or Pang. Preteens Maika (Tasiana Shirley), Jesse (Alexis Vincent-Wolfe), Leena (Chelsea Pruksy), and Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth) are passing the time crushing on boys, gossiping, hunting, and fishing in Pangnirtung, unaware that in a few hours,… View Post
Twenty-six-year-old movie-making wunderkind Cooper Raiff’s second coming-of-age film Cha Cha Real Smooth is on AppleTV+, a heart-tugging portrait of a young man becoming an adult. Raiff is Andrew; he has a degree but lives at his mother’s and works at Meat Sticks. By chance, he becomes a “party starter” thanks to his antics at a Bar Mitzvah and meets an… View Post