The CBC’s fresh new comedy series Strays follows Shannon Ross – Jung’s love interest in Kim’s Convenience – as the new executive director of the Hamilton East Animal Shelter. She oversees creatures great and small, human and other, and a quirky staff that may not be quite ready for her. And she may not be ready for Hamilton. Launches Sept…. View Post
Moonshine’s a coastal town in Nova Scotia where can be found the Finley-Cullens, a family of assorted oddballs and troublemakers who run a down-on-its-glam motel. The picturesque setting belies the raucous goings-on as the family gathers for the reading of the matriarch’s will. The one Finley-Cullen who abandoned Moonshine for NYC inherits the motel! Well, it’s going to be a… View Post
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