By Anne Brodie Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s epic family saga Hand of God set in his hometown of Naples, Italy is a soaring, joyous, tragic and uniquely beautiful cinematic experience, in select theatres Dec. 3 and on Netflix Dec. 15. It opens with an extraordinary extended drone pan over the city of Naples, its surrounding cliffs and hills, in total… View Post
Netflix’ Single All the Way an LGBTQ+ Christmas family movie for all ages is a winning holiday-flavoured romance for today’s audiences. Peter’s heading home to rural New Hampshire for the holidays, taking his best friend Nick along as his beard, so the family will stop trying to set him up with every Tom, Dick and Harry. The plan fails and… View Post
By Anne Brodie One of the most anticipated doc series this year has launched on Disney+. The Beatles: Get Back, a three-parter from Peter Jackson takes place in a latter-day recording session, compiled from 60 hours of verite footage shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in January 1969. The footage hasn’t been seen in fifty years and it’s a treasure trove! The… View Post
By Anne Brodie Apple TV+’s original film CODA stars deaf actors Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant. Emilia Jones plays the only hearing member of a tight-knit fishing family in Gloucester, Massachusetts in Sian Heder’s moving story. The family is at a crossroads; Ruby (Jones) has discovered her talent and love of singing as she closes out her high… View Post
Montreal-born and bred singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has transfixed fans with his soaring, complex music for decades. Born into music, his father Loudon Wainwright III and mother the late Kate McGarrigle who with her sister Anna created the renowned folk duet The McGarrigle Sisters his talent stirred early. Close family friend Leonard Cohen inspired him, and Cohen’s daughter Lorca is the… View Post
By Anne Brodie If there was ever an inspirational, thrilling and smart film about a family of exceptional achievement, it is King Richard from director Reinaldo Marcus Green. Richard Williams (beautifully played by Will Smith), the patriarch of five daughters including the world’s greatest tennis champions in the history of the sport, Venus and Serena Williams, sets a high-minded life… View Post