People Forced to Live in Close Quarters, and People Forced to Be Family! Relatable! and Animals During War. - What She Said By Anne Brodie Ok so we have all had bad neighbours. That uncomfortable truth drives Lauren Holly’s darkly funny Loathe Thy Neighbour, a sarcastic, absurd comedy shot in rural Hamilton, ON.  Strangely...

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Young Love, Dancing, Romancing and Hostage Taking! - What She Said By Anne Brodie Netflix’s pulse pounder mini series Hostage is such dark fun. It concerns the relationship between two female national leaders, left leaning British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton (Suran...

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Hilarious!! Love these reveals

TFCA (Freakier) Friday: August 8 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Freakier Friday, Weapons, My Mother's Wedding, Shook, Souleymane's Story, Sudan Remember Us, and more!

On SUDAN, REMEMBER US 🇸🇩

"gives voice to a population that has been consistently ignored" - Susan G. Cole

On ANIMALE 🫏

"plays with myth, horror and reality" - Gilbert Seah

On THE GIRLS ARE ALRIGHT 👩‍👧‍👧

"a breath of fresh air" - @annebrodie.bsky.social
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Kerouac and the Road, Alicia Silverstone's Canadian Co-Pro, Girlfriends, and Spies! - What She Said By Anne Brodie Jack Kerouac, his landmark book On the Road and the Beat era came before me, and was not a topic of conversation. But his legacy roars back to life in Ebs Burnough’s impressive doc Kero...

here are some opps for indoor cooling weekend views
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TFCA Friday: Week of August 1 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for The Naked Gun, The Bad Guys 2, Ghosts of the Sea, BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young, Together, and more!

This week in movies!

On The Naked Gun! 🚨

"giddy as charged" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social

"would make Leslie Nielsen proud" - Rachel Ho

"You’ll find yourself grinning at the screen" - @annebrodie.bsky.social

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Love's Expectations, Love Letters, Love Compromised & More - What She Said By Anne Brodie Can’t remember the last time a film made me feel queasy and then Oh, Hi! happened.  Sophie Brooks’ unflinching look at love and cruelty stars Molly Gordon as fun loving but intense Iris...

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Wake up, America

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

TFCA Friday: Week of July 18 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Eddington, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Cloud, I Known What You Did Last Summer, Smurfs, and more!

On DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT

"a sad reminder of the evils of colonialism" - @annebrodie.bsky.social

"moments of levity and even humour" - @chrisknightfilm.bsky.social

"retains an uneasily frightened white perspective" - @andrewjparker.bsky.social
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From one Extreme to Another This Week is Mad! In a Good Way. - What She Said By Anne Brodie Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs is a sad reminder of the evils of colonialism and how racists are created. Lexi Venter is seven-year-old Bobo, the white Rhodesian child of a solider and a hom...

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TFCA Friday: Week of July 11 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Superman, Apocalypse in the Tropics, Pavements, We Are Warriors, Antidote, To a Land Unknown, Push, and more!

On WE ARE GUARDIANS 🌴

"It’s unbearable watching the majestic trees fall" - @annebrodie.bsky.social

"a plea to the global community" - @bgos923.bsky.social

On TO A LAND UNKNOWN 🍉

"a finely tuned performance by Bakri" - @liamlacey.bsky.social
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disgusting..trump is wicked

It Women in Charge! Protecting the Amazon, Being Dangerous, Vigilantes, Fresh Starts and Burning Down the House. - What She Said By Anne Brodie Directed by Edivan Guajajara, co-founder of Mídia Indígena, Brazil’s leading Indigenous-led journalism collective and environmental filmmakers Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, We Are Gua...

Women have had it

You know 😜

Disgusting move #Donaldtrump

TFCA Friday: Week of June 20 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Elio, 28 Weeks Later, His Father's Son, Meet the Barbarians, Surviving Ohio State, and Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem.

On HIS FATHER'S SON 🍁

"reinvents the way we see families in cinema" - @annebrodie.bsky.social

"moving and insightful" - Gilbert Seah

"attentively crafted and acted" - @liamlacey.bsky.social
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The Mitfords!!! Rob Ford, Family in Crisis and an Immigrant Story. - What She Said By Anne Brodie The superior drama His Father’s Son reinvents the way we see families in cinema; this is a whole new animal, shot in Toronto by Meelad Moaphi whose rich cinematic vision is a treat. We ...

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The very good and the don't bothers

Why isn't Juneteenth in Canada?We had slavery, to our detriment.

TFCA Friday: Week of June 13 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Materialists, The Life of Chuck, Endless Cookie, Boxcutter, How to Train Your Dragon, Our Times, and more!

Plus:

Jim Slotek recaps BlueMtnFilmFest

@liamlacey.bsky.social previews Toronto Japanese FF

@annebrodie.bsky.social on new series

@filmfest.bsky.social talks Endless Cookie

And more!
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Cows, Cads, Curs and Crime Busters! Oh Yeah! - What She Said By Anne Brodie Katie Uhlman’s charming sitcom Cows Come Home is a breath of fresh air! With a hint of manure! Fifteen-minute segments follow Toronto resident Tabby Acres (yes) played with energy by Li...

Not the greatest lineup of all time, but here goes:
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TFCA Friday: Week of June 6 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for The Phoenician Scheme, Ballerina, Dangerous Animals, Digital Tsunami, I Don't Understand You, Straw, and more!

On BALLERINA 🩰

"a little extra Wick for fans who thought they’d seen the last of him" - Jim Slotek

On DIGITAL TSUNAMI 🌊

"timely and productive" - @patmullen.bsky.social

Plus @annebrodie.bsky.social offers #IndigenousPeoplesMonth & #Pride picks

and more!

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Indigenous and Pride Month Celebrations, Jane Seymour's Surprising Next Chapter and Cats. - What She Said By Anne Brodie The National Film Board of Canada – the NFB – dips into its massive library of films about Canadians made by Canadians to celebrate June’s National indigenous History Month and Pride Mo...

Short and to the point! 🎞️ #PRIDE!
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🔥Volcanic lightning - an electrical discharge caused by colliding particles of ash and ice rather than from a thunderstorm.

Tee hee

What a despicable human being is #DonaldTrump ...and his enablers. Just vile.

TFCA Friday: Week of May 30 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Two Women; Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day; Bring Her Back; Bono: Stories of Surrender; Sabbath Queen; and more!

In this week's round-up, our members review new releases including TWO WOMEN, BRING HER BACK, and BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY, plus take a look at the Canadian Screen Awards, Blue Mountain Film Festival, and the NFB's new strategic plan torontofilmcritics.com/features/tfc...

Love a Mystery? You're in the Right Place So Buckle Up, and the CBC Fêtes Canadian Artists. - What She Said By Anne Brodie The nine-episode British psychological police procedural DEPT. Q is a simmering look at law enforcement in Edinburgh, with traumatised DCI Carl Morck (Matthew Goode, emaciated, for the ...

It's Mystery Week as Hockey Delays #canadianscreenawards

TFCA Friday: Week of May 23 - Toronto Film Critics Association Movie reviews for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Lilo & Stitch, Fear Street: Prom Queen, Bad Shabbos, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, and more.

On JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE 🔖

"“An improbable, head spinning parade of events" - @annebrodie.bsky.social

"has a knack for atmosphere and tone" - Karen Gordon

"a lovely entry into the field of romantic comedies" - Marc Glassman

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