By Anne Brodie / Dog stars Channing Tatum as Briggs, a soldier at the end of term serving in wars in the Middle East. His final assignment – take his late friend’s traumatized service dog across the country to his owner’s funeral and then turn him over for euthanization. Lulu is on constant high alert and reacts violently to loud… View Post
Crave’s Original comedy Series Pillow Talk starring real-life couple Adam DiMarco and Sydney Scotia – as a couple – takes us to places where intimate conversations and other things take place – in bed. Pillow Talk features four real-life couples and a couple of single driving this unpredictable, sometimes squirmy and entertaining look at coupledom, the fights, the makeups, the… View Post
The original Apple TV+ film The Sky is Everywhere tell’s Lennie’s story. She lives in a beautiful part of Northern California with her grandmother and uncle when her sister and best friend Bailey dies suddenly, leaving her devastated and confused. Lennie withdraws inside her imagination as her family, boyfriend Joe, and her late sister’s boyfriend Tobey tries to ease her… View Post
By Anne Brodie – Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers is a complex character study and mystery, wrapped in the filmmaker’s signature humanism with Penélope Cruz as Janis and Milena Smit as Ana. Almodóvar lowers the visual and emotional temperature this time, out of respect for the dark history permeating the story, the mass murder of locals by Fascists under dictator Francisco… View Post
CBC Gem launches Best in Miniature, hosted by the CBC’s secret weapon Aba Amuquandoh. She’s a bona fide phenom – sings like a dream, dishes out the laughs on This Hour has 22 Minutes and soothes frantic miniaturists’ souls as they compete in the rookie show with big ambitions. What She Said’ Anne Brodie Spoke with Amuquandoh and yes, Aba… View Post
By Anne Brodie Colin Mochrie is a very naughty boy – he’s one one ten all-Canadian comics – Caroline Rhea, Debra DiGiovanni, Dave Foley, Jon Lajoie, Tom Green, Mae Martin, Brandon Ash-Mohammed and Andrew Phung – in an excruciating comedic exercise, to break down the other comics by going nuclear funny. Mochrie is merciless. All this while locked six hours… View Post