“Canadian cinema may not have a large fan base, but it boasts notable Canadian directors such as Denis Villeneuve and Sarah Polley, as well as noteworthy films like “La chute de l’empire américain” (2018) and “Starbuck” (2011). I recently watched “The Kid Detective” (2020), a movie starring Adam Brody, who also starred in the TV series “StartUp” which I really
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Following the release of “Women Talking”, I remembered some moments from the acting career of Sarah Polley. More than fifteen years have passed since the night I ran out in a movie on TV that astonished me. I was a newbie moviegoer at the time, and even though I’ve seen thousands of films since then, I still remember the tense
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“Dual” is an American satirical science fiction thriller film written, directed, and produced by Riley Stearns (The Art of Self-Defense’). “Dual” was filmed during Covid quarantine, so you have to take into account the restrictions, when you review the movie. “Dual” is not a masterpiece, but it has a strong scenario that will keep you excited until the end and
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The Shins was the guest band in Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band performed the song “Caring Is Creepy”, a song that was included in the soundtrack of Zach Braff’s “Garden State” (2004). The movie – also starring Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard – had a succesful box office reaching the $35.8 million with only $2.5 million budget. Braff also accepted
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Jessica Chastain and Michael Sheen were guests on the last Graham Norton’s show episode. They both made a reference to the many hours that the makeup took on their new roles. Chastain said that the first time as Tammy Faye, her makeup took 7,5 hours to be done. In response to that, Sheen joked about it, suggesting that his makeup
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The truth is that the second part of my Top-10 Films was delayed a lot. The good news is that I added an extra film in our original ten films. 05) Midsommar If you search for a folklore horror movie, “Midsommar” should be your choice. Florence Pugh stars as a young woman, who joins her boyfriend to a trip to
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As we referred to our past article, it was a pleasure to see Sarah Polley in action again as writer/director in the feature adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel Women Talking. The novel was named a Best Book of the Year By The New York Times Book Review, NPR.Org, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, Publishers Weekly and
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There is no question that every Woody Allen’s movie is a significal milestone in the annual film calendar. His new movie, that its release in many countries was delayed due to Covid, can be characterised as a classical Allen movie. Mort Rifkin, an elder film studies academic (Wallace Shawn) suspects that his wife Sue (Gina Gershon), a PR flack, cheats
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Sarah Polley returns directing and writing the script of the novel-based drama “Women Talking”. The novel was written by Miriam Toews and was published in 2018. It follows a group of women in an isolated Mennonite religious colony in Bolivia as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men. This is
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