What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you want? Your pride, your health, your family…yourself? This is a key question I asked throughout my viewing of A Woman of Substance, now streaming on BritBox, in between my yelling at the characters for their decisions....
When the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice was released, Keira Knightley said “I think that’s why the character is so loved, because everybody who loves the book is Elizabeth Bennet. Or she’s what you aspire to be, she’s funny, she’s witty and intelligent. She’s a...
When my kids first asked me to watch a movie on Netflix called KPop Demon Hunters, I was immediately like “huh? What the heck is that about?” So, I did a quick review online and gave them the go ahead. Little did I know that two days later I would be sitting on my...
Fledgling movie star? Check. Struggling local business owner? Check. Strained parent-child relationship? Check. A delightfully heartfelt movie about the fledgling movie star acting his way through a scenario to help the struggling business owner while navigating a...
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is one of the most awkward films I have ever watched. And it was exactly as it should be. After all, few things are more awkward than the transition many girls face as they enter the season of when boys, bras, and changing bodies...
Lovely. If I only could use one word to describe Blueback with Mia Wasikowska, Radha Mitchell, Ilsa Fogg, Clarence Ryan, Pedrea Jackson, and Eric Bana, it would be 'lovely'. Between the natural beauty and humble confidence of it identity, Australian film has a way of...
In an approach that feels like part National Geographic and part Finding Nemo, Katak, the Brave Beluga, (produced by 10e Ave), is an animated story of a young Beluga whale on the search for a long-lost family member ? and his independence ? amid environmental dangers,...
I am a self-proclaimed enthusiast of all things ?A Christmas Carol.? I mean, one of my son?s names is Timothy ? a purposeful reference to Tiny Tim from the Charles Dickens classic story of how a seemingly ?unredeemable? Ebenezer Scrooge journeys through his past,...
I?ll come clean from the start: I had no idea who Charli XCX was before viewing Charli XCX: Alone Together. When she first started posting music on MySpace in 2008, I was married with my first child and had long abandoned that earlier social media platform with a full...