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
Jockey’s Molly Parker and Clifton Collins, Jr. – Ruth and Jackson – are at a stage of reckoning. Jackson’s many injuries over decades of racing horses will soon rob him of his beloved career, while he prepares for the next championship. Ruth looks on, broken-hearted. That’s when an aspiring young jockey shows up with a shocking revelation that will change… View Post
By Kadie Ward, Commissioner and CAO, Ontario Pay Equity Commission The economic impacts of unpaid care work and the undervaluation of paid care work by women are large and measurable. Last month, we talked about the clustering of women in certain sectors in the workforce and how those sectors tend to be undervalued. In part two of our series on… View Post