Facebook Portal has hit the market with a new range, as the social media giant continues to pivot into smart-home-tech and steal some market space from Apple, Google and Amazon. Portal isn't simply a videophone (you’ve got the Beyonce song in your head now haven’t you?), there’s more to it, but that’s the core of... Continue Reading →
Disney+’s attention-grabbing debut Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian, is already a quarter of the way through its eight episode run (I know, crazy!) and it’s becoming clear this isn’t just a case of serving up space mutton dressed as intergalactic lamb. This is a Western disguised as a Sci-fi story (like a lot of... Continue Reading →
One may as well start with the Young Vic’s emails to its mailing list (my God, how many articles about The Inheritance have started with variations on that line). Back in 2017 when Angels In America (starring Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield) was playing at the National Theatre, the Young Vic was announcing the last... Continue Reading →
Two very different one-act plays are currently residing in London’s Bunker Theatre with a common thread running through them - young queer women looking for connection. The opening play, i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) kicks things off with a shock. A young Chinese mother in London picks up her... Continue Reading →
The creative team for the Theatre Calgary production of The Louder We Get has just been announced. Lonny Price will direct Evan Kinnane, Lee MacDougall and Thom Allison. The musical, with book by Kent Staines, lyrics by Akiva Romer-Segal, and music by Colleen Dauncey, is based on the true story of Marc Hall who, seventeen... Continue Reading →
One of the joys of watching a well-made biographical documentary is getting intimate with figures you feel you should have already known all about. Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back dexterously balances cataloging the illustrious career and public persona of its subject, along with his personal life. Clearly a deeply private man, Maurice has kept the... Continue Reading →
Okay, let’s start with the basics. Yes it’s long. No it doesn’t feel long. Yes the de-aging is good. No it’s not perfect. Yes you should try to see The Irishman in the cinema. Yes Joe Pesci's performance is definitely worthy of Oscar consideration. Is it Scorcese’s best? No. I wanted to see The Irishman... Continue Reading →
My Dads, My Moms and Me follows three Canadian families as they navigate the world of LGBTQ parenthood. Documentary filmmaker, Julia Ivanova, initially filmed her subjects in 2007, returning 12 years later to capture the families’ lives as they go through the tween to teen years of their children. In 2005, Canada was the first... Continue Reading →
I love a good whodunnit. Give me an unreliable narrator, misdirects, a slew of suspects, and a shocking reveal, and I’ll wanna know about it. Even if I don’t see a particular film or read the book, I’ll still Google it, because I just need to know if it elevates the genre or not. We... Continue Reading →
