Tiger trainer and showman Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic is currently serving a long stretch in prison on a murder-for-hire case involving targeting animal welfare activist Carole Baskin and animal cruelty at his exotic animal theme park in Oklahoma. Both were featured in a recent Netflix documentary, now re-examined in the series dramatisation Joe vs Carole with Kyle MacLachlan… View Post
Have you heard of this saying “elevation requires separation”? It carries a different meaning for many. In today’s article, we want to discuss separation from old habits, from our old selves and lives. Certainly it’s not without challenges but entirely necessary to avoid self-sabotage. As you journey with us over the next 11 months on What She Said Radio Talk… View Post
By Anne Brodie Wildhood is a poignant, bittersweet awakening story of Link, a Mi’kmaw teenager who escapes severe abuse at home and hits the road with his little brother Travis. Writer/director/producer Bretten Hannam’s Two-Spirit odyssey filmed in English and Mi’kmaw starring Phillip Lewitski, Avery Winters Anthony, and Michael Greyeyes details Link’s issues of feeling unloved and unsafe, being shamed for… View Post
Twenty-five-year-old Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee McPhee’s breathtaking performance of a sensitive young man suddenly uprooted to a cattle ranch on his mother’s marriage is the kind of work one would expect from a far more experienced actor. In Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, he navigates complex emotional and psychological undercurrents, a bold long con, and a slow-burning laser… View Post
“Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes” – Andy Warhol. The pop-art genius and touchstone for a generation of New York artists, musicians, and stars poked convention, making masterpieces out of Polaroids of the famous, Campbell’s Tomato Soup cans, Brillo Pads, and his motley crew at the Factory. The shy, bespectacled kid from Pittsburgh’s fifteen minutes now approaches fifty years… View Post
By Anne Brodie Dark, as ever, gritty as ever, but in a surprisingly analog métier, The Batman untangles the origins story of Bruce Wayne’s justice-seeking alter ego Batman in his sophomore year fighting crime and his sworn enemies, The Riddler and The Penguin. Gotham City’s Mayor is murdered in his study leaving his young son an orphan. Election day approaches… View Post