By Anne Brodie One of my top #TIFF21 picks comes from the Lewis, Outer Hebrides of Scotland a wild, windswept, craggy place staring straight out into the Atlantic, the end of the world to some. Nobody Has to Know from writer, director and leading man Bouli Lanners is a moving study of love that comes too late. Phil (Lanners) is… View Post
Presented by RBC Meg Tucker has been creating shared experiences through media for over 20 years. Creator of the Shaw TV original kids cooking show Just One Bite, and a top 25 finalist on MasterChef Canada, Meg’s enthusiasm for life brings joy to everyone she meets in front of and behind her kitchen counter. Today, as a certified professional cook,… View Post
Nestor Carbonell’s Yanko is The Morning Show’s popular weatherman. He watches the anchors’ rivalries for power unfold and intensify while maintaining a certain remove. What She Said’ Anne Brodie asked him about that and how he manages to avoid the suffocating drama and never breaking a sweat in Season 2.
The Center: Gibbons and Guardians is a moving and often hilarious look at life on a Santa Clarita California primate sanctuary. The Centre cares for nine endangered gibbons, each a handful, each a gem. The Center’s Director Gabriella Skollar and filmmakers Alex M. Azmi and Mark Thau joined What She Said’ Anne Brodie to spread the word on this essential… View Post
By Anne Brodie TIFF – Benediction, Terence Davies’ biography of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden as a young man and soldier and Peter Capaldi as the embittered old man weaves the story of his life in classically style, elegantly and philosophically. Beginning with archival war footage, underlining Sassoon’s severe PTSD, his poetry, expressing and defining… View Post