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About Author: Anne Brodie

Anne Brodie
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Anne Brodie is a freelance film reporter and critic.

Posts by Anne Brodie

  • Robert Davi’s unforgettable face and steely eyes have improved many films over the last 36 years. Known mostly for villainous roles and the occasional good guy part, Davi hit the...

    Robert Davi’s Threefer: An album of Sinatra tunes, a new movie and a star on the Italian Walk of Fame

    Posted on June 15, 2013 | No Comments
    Robert Davi’s unforgettable face and steely eyes have improved many films over the last 36 years. Known mostly for villainous roles and the occasional good guy part, Davi hit the...

  • Young German actress Saskia Rosendahl stars in Lore, Cate Shortland’s gripping film about Nazi children in post-war Germany. Rosendahl puts in a masterful performance, taking Lore organically from the spoiled...

    Interview: Actress Saskia Rosendahl talks ‘Lore’

    Posted on June 6, 2013 | No Comments
    Young German actress Saskia Rosendahl stars in Lore, Cate Shortland’s gripping film about Nazi children in post-war Germany. Rosendahl puts in a masterful performance, taking Lore organically from the spoiled...

  • “From a sharecropper’s daughter to a superstar”, is the line used to describe southern Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker after the phenomenal success of her novel The Color Purple....

    Movie Review: Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

    Posted on June 1, 2013 | No Comments
    “From a sharecropper’s daughter to a superstar”, is the line used to describe southern Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker after the phenomenal success of her novel The Color Purple....

  • Australian director Cate Shortland’s mesmerizing film Lore follows four Nazi children whose parents have been taken away at the end of WWII. They are forced to fend for themselves while...

    Interview: Director Cate Shortland talks ‘Lore’

    Posted on June 1, 2013 | No Comments
    Australian director Cate Shortland’s mesmerizing film Lore follows four Nazi children whose parents have been taken away at the end of WWII. They are forced to fend for themselves while...

  • Canadian actress Katharine Isabelle has starred in her fair share of horror films, and is perhaps best known for her ground-breaking work in the Ginger Snaps trilogy. The Vancouver native...

    Interview: Katharine Isabelle talks ‘American Mary’

    Posted on May 29, 2013 | No Comments
    Canadian actress Katharine Isabelle has starred in her fair share of horror films, and is perhaps best known for her ground-breaking work in the Ginger Snaps trilogy. The Vancouver native...

  • Danish actor Trine Dyrholm, recently dubbed “the best actress ever” by Alec Baldwin, has played dramatic, mostly unsympathetic characters for most of her 23 year film career. But for Susanne...

    Interview: Actress Trine Dyrholm talks Love is All You Need

    Posted on May 24, 2013 | No Comments
    Danish actor Trine Dyrholm, recently dubbed “the best actress ever” by Alec Baldwin, has played dramatic, mostly unsympathetic characters for most of her 23 year film career. But for Susanne...

  • Simon Helberg calls Howard Wolowitz, the nerd he plays on The Big Bang Theory, the James Bond of the show (and we totally believe him). Wolowitz has the smooth confidence...

    Interview: Simon Helberg talks ‘The Big Bang Theory’

    Posted on May 14, 2013 | No Comments
    Simon Helberg calls Howard Wolowitz, the nerd he plays on The Big Bang Theory, the James Bond of the show (and we totally believe him). Wolowitz has the smooth confidence...

  • She’s young, gorgeous, talented and smart. An actor from the age of seven, Alexia Fast has amassed an enviable resume that reflects these qualities and her diversity. She’s crossed genres,...

    Interview: Alexia Fast talks ‘Blackbird’

    Posted on May 12, 2013 | No Comments
    She’s young, gorgeous, talented and smart. An actor from the age of seven, Alexia Fast has amassed an enviable resume that reflects these qualities and her diversity. She’s crossed genres,...

  • Online cat culture is an obsession uniting besotted fans from around the world who love cats. Cats have come out of the closet in recent years and so has our...

    ‘Lil Bub & Friendz’ wins Best Feature Online at Tribeca Film Festival

    Posted on April 28, 2013 | No Comments
    Online cat culture is an obsession uniting besotted fans from around the world who love cats. Cats have come out of the closet in recent years and so has our...

  • Gael García Bernal tackles the social politics of South America again, this time as the ad executive who dreams up the television campaign that led to the defeat of Chile’s...

    Interview: Gael García Bernal talks ‘No’

    Posted on March 16, 2013 | No Comments
    Gael García Bernal tackles the social politics of South America again, this time as the ad executive who dreams up the television campaign that led to the defeat of Chile’s...

  • It’s about time the gifted Robert Carlyle got his own American film. The 52-year-old Scottish actor has brought depth and flavour to films and television for nearly thirty years and...

    Movie Review: California Solo

    Posted on March 1, 2013 | No Comments
    It’s about time the gifted Robert Carlyle got his own American film. The 52-year-old Scottish actor has brought depth and flavour to films and television for nearly thirty years and...

  • The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is a hell of a wake-up call. Watching well-chosen documentaries from our comfy seats, well fed and with friends, it’s hard to believe that...

    Helga Stephenson on the 10th Annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival

    Posted on February 25, 2013 | No Comments
    The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is a hell of a wake-up call. Watching well-chosen documentaries from our comfy seats, well fed and with friends, it’s hard to believe that...

  • Parade’s End is a grim and unvarnished story of an English statistician locked in a difficult marriage as his country prepares for war in 1914. Benedict Cumberbatch so highly regarded...

    TV Review: HBO’s ‘Parade’s End’

    Posted on February 25, 2013 | No Comments
    Parade’s End is a grim and unvarnished story of an English statistician locked in a difficult marriage as his country prepares for war in 1914. Benedict Cumberbatch so highly regarded...

  • The number one thing searched on the Internet is pornography. The second most popular search target is cats. It’s not surprising. People love sex and cats and that’s just a...

    Get your cat on with VICE

    Posted on February 24, 2013 | No Comments
    The number one thing searched on the Internet is pornography. The second most popular search target is cats. It’s not surprising. People love sex and cats and that’s just a...

  • Mads Mikkelsen’s career is on a major upward spike. The renowned 40-year-old Danish actor and leading man stars in A Royal Affair, currently in theatres, is playing the titular role in the...

    Interview: Mads Mikkelsen talks ‘A Royal Affair’

    Posted on February 7, 2013 | No Comments
    Mads Mikkelsen’s career is on a major upward spike. The renowned 40-year-old Danish actor and leading man stars in A Royal Affair, currently in theatres, is playing the titular role in the...

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