By Anne Brodie Halftime on Netflix on June 14 marks a milestone in the life of Jennifer Lopez, who’s stayed at the top of her game for decades entertaining the fans and settings examples as a Latin female phenomenon, businessperson and performer. Lopez’ appearance during the Superbowl Halftime show the year she turned fifty was sensational. This new and intimate… View Post
By Anne Brodie Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara is a stunner. Swamy Rotolo is 15 – year old Chiara, the middle daughter in a close-knit loving (real-life) family living in Calabria, and they’re celebrating her sister Giulia’s (Grecia Rotolo) 18th birthday. Family and villagers pull out all the stops with a cramped, joyous dinner party complete with testimonials. Strangely Giulia’s father… View Post
Keilani Rose (Lheidli Tenneh (The People Where the Two Rivers Flow Together), and Kānaka Mamao (Native Hawaiian diaspora) descent, with Chinese immigrant and Irish settler ancestry) stars in Shoresy, a Letterkenny adjacent and hysterically funny new series from Jared Keeso. Shoresy joins a senior AAA hockey team in Sudbury on a quest to never lose again and forms a team… View Post
Mental Wellness—feeling good about ourselves, our relationships, and our future—is vital to our cognitive, emotional and social well-being. It is also crucial for our longevity and physical health. It is about prevention; managing life’s adversity; being resilient when we face stress, worry, fear, doubt, loneliness, envy, anger, pain, and sadness. Mental wellness also includes our ability to make wise choices… View Post
By Anne Brodie Can you believe it’s 36 years later? Top Gun: Maverick finds Tom Cruise as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, older, wiser, and jobless, a washed-up star jet fighter test pilot. Out of the blue, he’s called back to service, to the annoyance of Jon Hamm’s Admiral Simpson, saved by “Ice” his old friend (Val Kilmer) who still has faith… View Post
Downton Abbey is positively buzzing in 1929. A recent Royal visit from the King and Queen was a reminder of their legacy and also how society has changed since we first met them. And its full throttle in the future in Downton Abbey: A New Era is a fan’s delight- full of dizzying and thrilling plot twists and turns. One… View Post