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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

  • 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...

  • A film documenting the meeting of a Ku Klux Klan member and a civil rights worker 43 years after their first violent meeting is bound to be explosive. Despite the...

    Movie Review: The Last White Knight

    Posted on February 1, 2013 | No Comments
    A film documenting the meeting of a Ku Klux Klan member and a civil rights worker 43 years after their first violent meeting is bound to be explosive. Despite the...

  • TIFF Cinematheque celebrates Black History Month with a retrospective of films that define the important, but little known, cinematic movement the L.A. Rebellion. In 1969 Life magazine photographer turned filmmaker...

    L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

    Posted on January 30, 2013 | No Comments
    TIFF Cinematheque celebrates Black History Month with a retrospective of films that define the important, but little known, cinematic movement the L.A. Rebellion. In 1969 Life magazine photographer turned filmmaker...

  • One of the best things about Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox is that for all the arty, foreign, old and experimental films on offer, there are also enough mainstream films, silly...

    Whoa. The Films of Keanu Reeves at the TIFF Bell Lightbox

    Posted on January 13, 2013 | No Comments
    One of the best things about Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox is that for all the arty, foreign, old and experimental films on offer, there are also enough mainstream films, silly...

  • In all the fuss over Bond’s fiftieth anniversary, another cinematic icon quietly reached an important anniversary. A kind of Bond of the wild, the heroic risk taker, John Clayton, Earl...

    The Centennial Celebration Tarzan: The Stories. The Movies. The Art

    Posted on December 10, 2012 | No Comments
    In all the fuss over Bond’s fiftieth anniversary, another cinematic icon quietly reached an important anniversary. A kind of Bond of the wild, the heroic risk taker, John Clayton, Earl...

  • It started back in 2007 when a young film lover and aspiring illustrator created a black t-shirt called Spoilt, which he covered with red and white graphics of twist endings...

    Olly Moss’ Silhouettes from Popular Culture

    Posted on November 13, 2012 | No Comments
    It started back in 2007 when a young film lover and aspiring illustrator created a black t-shirt called Spoilt, which he covered with red and white graphics of twist endings...

  • If a film can become a sensory experience, this is it. Where the Trail Ends documents Canadian extreme bikers as they follow their sporting bliss, to fly in the air...

    Movie Review: Where the Trail Ends

    Posted on October 27, 2012 | No Comments
    If a film can become a sensory experience, this is it. Where the Trail Ends documents Canadian extreme bikers as they follow their sporting bliss, to fly in the air...

  • Did Donald Trump restart the Obama birther question, and run for the US Presidency, to increase ratings for the season’s run of The Apprentice? Probably. America’s most notorious and grotesque...

    Movie Review: You’ve Been Trumped

    Posted on October 25, 2012 | No Comments
    Did Donald Trump restart the Obama birther question, and run for the US Presidency, to increase ratings for the season’s run of The Apprentice? Probably. America’s most notorious and grotesque...

  • Canadian film critic, writer and pop culture author* Richard Crouse spent two years chasing down answers to a question that puzzled him. Why had Ken Russell’s 1971 movie The Devils...

    Film critic Richard Crouse on his new book ‘Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils’

    Posted on October 11, 2012 | No Comments
    Canadian film critic, writer and pop culture author* Richard Crouse spent two years chasing down answers to a question that puzzled him. Why had Ken Russell’s 1971 movie The Devils...

  • Steven Spielberg’s tale of a lonely boy and his pet space alien won nine Oscar nominations back in 1982. E.T. was a massive, international blockbuster that earned nearly $12M in...

    ‘E.T.’ 30 Years On

    Posted on October 7, 2012 | No Comments
    Steven Spielberg’s tale of a lonely boy and his pet space alien won nine Oscar nominations back in 1982. E.T. was a massive, international blockbuster that earned nearly $12M in...

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