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Working at a film festival always comes with the frustration that you cannot possibly see all the movies you want. I was dying to see The Lighthouse and Waves for instance and could not make it. But from the 23 movies I did manage to see I chose these to highlight.
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Many people probably don’t even know that Grey’s Anatomy is still on air. But devoted fans still tune into the TV series created by Shonda Rhimes and it’s now on its 15th season. Very few shows make it to that landmark, let alone deliver an episode that people talk about and puts Twitter on fire.
Read more“Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman” tells the story of the man who created the female superhero. Consider it the
Read moreIt’s the one question that people keep asking you after you return from a film festival: Which movie did you
Read moreActresses showed impressive range in a variety of roles at this year’s TIFF. Sure, people were talking about the incredible
Read moreThere is always talk that there are not enough women in Hollywood. The latest study from the Center for the study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University revealed at the beginning of the year that only 7 percent of all directors working on the 250 highest-grossing domestic releases in 2016 were female – shockingly a decline of two percent compared to numbers in 2015 and in 1998. How is this possible? Why are we always talking and writing about this if there is no improvement? But change might be in the air – at least in Canada.
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The German filmmaker Maren Ade is making waves with her third feature Toni Erdmann which caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival. Now it opens in theaters and this is a movie no one should miss.
Who knew Ethan Hawke had an aversion to rules? Speaking to New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein Sunday as
Read moreLucy Lawless has been a feminist pop culture icon for 20 years – and she’s still making projects we’re excited
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Susanne Bier’s In A Better World won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2011, putting her on Hollywood’s A-List. But transitioning from Copenhagen to Hollywood has been challenging. Bier’s Hollywood-honed Serena opened in March, 2015. after a two-year delay. Her extraordinary talent and unstoppable persistence put Bier in our April SPOTLIGHT. Read on…