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 role) at the centre of the storm. He and other police officers were taken by surprise while investigating a murder; they died or sustained serious life altering injuries but not… View Post
By Anne Brodie Jane Austen Wrecked My Life follows Agathe (Camille Rutherford) a bookseller in Paris’ tony Shakespeare & Co. who wants to write a book, inspired by her lifelong love of the works of Jane Austen. And not just any book. She determines to write one that will connect her with Austen for all time. Sadly, she’s hit a… View Post
By Anne Brodie E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea is a story of design excellence, theft and betrayal. Gray, an Irish born architect, potter and loner designed her masterpiece, a Modernist gem of a home in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, on the Cote D’Azur. It’s described as “a white cuboid built raised on pillars open plan with horizontal windows,… View Post
By Anne Brodie In 2021, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot to death on the set of Rust when Alec Baldwin fired his prop gun that was loaded with a live round. Protocol calls for guns on movie sets to be loaded with dummies – no live ammunition, just a big bang. But Baldwin’s gun contained live ammunition and tragically he… View Post
By Anne Brodie A ninety-year-old woman who lives alone in the woods on a 54 acre property knows what we’ve all been grappling with for years – how to live easily on the earth and work with it for our needs, our joys and our belonging. Mennonite Agatha Bock is the subject of the documentary Agatha’s Almanac; she calls a… View Post
By Anne Brodie Australian actor Jacob Elordi’s current heartthrob status will bring folks in to see Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horses in theatres April 25. And boy, do we get to see a lot of him. He’s Julius, brother of Lee (Will Poulter), who is married to Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones); they live in her isolated childhood farmhouse in Kansas. Julius… View Post