By Anne Brodie – We have Toronto International Film Festival – TIFF to you! – capsule reviews to help make your viewing choices in person or on https://digital.tiff.net/ Danis Goulet’s premieres her extraordinary drama Night Raiders at TIFF, a disturbing story paralleling the traumas of the residential school system for generations of First Nations. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is a Niska, a… View Post
Gia is celebrating her 21st birthday at a club; she doesn’t feel quite up to being an adult yet, though. So, she stacks away her earlier selves, the baby, the ten-year-old and the sixteen-year-old under her trench coat and goes for it. She has a license to prove she’s twenty-one but that doesn’t stop her and her “selves” from blubbering… View Post
Apple TV+’ Come from Away, the filmed adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about what happened on that terrible day, 9/11/2001 in Gander, Newfoundland, shows how fresh the wounds of that day still feel, twenty years on. There was an unexpected bright spot in the midst of the tragedy – the coming together of 7000 international plane passengers rerouted away… View Post
By Anne Brodie Toronto actor/stuntman Simu Liu made the leap from Kim’s Convenience to the Marvel Universe nabbing the lead role in Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings. It’s finally landed, our hero entering the fray and saving the world, one great feat and one great leap after another. Director Destin Daniel Cretton creates a place in which… View Post
Simu Liu is a Canadian actor, writer, athlete and star of Kim’s Convenience who Tweeted at Marvel in 2014 to create an Asian superhero, and then again in 2018 offering to play the lead in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Guess what? They cast him! The film opens this week and the excitement is palpable. Liu is… View Post
Kortney Wilson, the sunny former co-host of HGTV home design reality series Masters of Flip is back, minus husband Dave and plus a new show partner starring in Making It Home with Kortney & Kenny. Kenny Brain, known for Big Brother Canada and Kortney tackle incredible new spaces in the series that is decidedly upbeat and packed with great design… View Post