Endless works of art were inspired by the legendary platinum blonde bombshell. Marilyn Monroe, also known as Norma Jeane Baker, was homaged by artists like Andy Warhol and an incommensurable number of filmmakers who tried to tell her story through their craft. Netflix, just a few months ago released Emma Cooper’s documentary The Mystery of…
There is no doubt that the Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda is fascinated with family. Not necessary a nuclear family and family bound by blood. In his latest film “Broker”, as in his Golden Palm winner and Oscar nominated “Shoplifters”, he forms an unconventional family of a group of criminals. This time on an unusual…
The late 13th century isn’t a time known for individualism and free-thinking personalities, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. Whether or not they did live then, it’s a creative way to look back at a long-gone era with far too many aspects reminiscent in today’s patriarchal society. The 1994 novel Catherine Called Birdy by…
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award honouree Tyler Perry, A Jazzman’s Blues, takes audiences on a four-decade journey of forbidden love in the American Southern states. The film, that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, will be available on Netflix. The movie unspools the vicissitudes of Bayou (Joshua Boone) and Leanne (Solea Pfeiffer)…
At night they are drugged and raped. For years women wake up with pain and sheets soaked in blood, but no memory of what happened. Ghosts and demons did it, say the men in the ultraconservative remote religious colony. But these women know better. And they talk. Now it’s time to decide. Stay and fight,…
A sibling is a relative with whom a person can have any number of different relationships. If children are close in age, they may grow up together and remain friendly and close in adulthood. Living in a home of discord or divorce can also create a strong bond, though it may also bring with it…
The experience of coming back from war is not an easy one. Returning after the resolution of a long-running conflict along with many others who have served is difficult enough, but when someone is forced to cut their tour short and feels like there is still more they could be doing on active duty, that…
It’s staggering to think how futile war can be, with soldiers dying regularly in the pursuit of a conflict that will almost surely end in defeat for one side, meaning that all they have gained and accomplished in the process of their fighting may be undone. This isn’t specific to any one war, but in…
Society doesn’t tend to look kindly on those who are overweight, firstly by setting unrealistic standards for what being fit and attractive mean. People can be cruel and careless in how they treat others who, for whatever reason, are heavy, making comments under their breath or physically reacting to the sight or smell of somewhere…
The late rock superstar David Bowie’s long career and discography established him as one of music’s great innovators and unique figures. In veteran director Brett Morgen’s unconventional documentary about the legendary creator, the film opens with Bowie discussing controversial German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and ideas about the disappearance of God. Bowie was fascinated by the…
It’s not easy to be a parent, and one of the most challenging parts of the job is not knowing what a child will be like ahead of time. Kids are to a degree shaped by how their parents raise them, but they are also influenced by other factors and develop personality traits of their…
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