CBC/ BET+ ambitious Black-led dramatic series The Porter chronicles the rich history of Black train conductors in Canada, their role in opening the country while enduring horrific working conditions and fighting to unionise. It also spotlights the nurses of the Black Cross, a group created to serve the Black community when the Red Cross would not. What She Said’ Anne… View Post
By Anne Brodie Scarborough from directors Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson and writer Catherine Hernandez is set in a low-income enclave in eastern Toronto. Its diverse population is well represented in three families whose children attend the same breakfast and literacy program run by a nurturing leader Ms. Hina (Aliya Kanani.) She knows each child’s difficulties and gifts. Little Laura is… View Post
The Porter tells the history of Black influence in building Canada at the turn of the last century through the lens of railway porters and health care workers in a time of deep systemic racism. The national Canadian train service hired Black conductors to work long and hard, enduring humiliation, low wages and dangers due to poor working conditions. But… View Post
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