J.C. Chandor’s lone-man-on-the-sea film is an unpretentious survival tale of a confident, stoic, practical minded man (Robert Redford) who does everything right to avoid hunger, wayward drift, and death, but is repeatedly foiled by Mother Nature at every turn…
When a highly reluctant Robert Redford finally buckled under Sydney Pollack’s pleading and agreed to co-star with Barbara Streisand in The Way We Were, the actor probably assumed the film wouldn’t do little more than maybe nudge his marquee status, given his role consisted of a pretty boy to whom writing comes easy, and life’s conflicts are never truly dire…
Based on the novel by Terry Fallis, this 6 episode CBC series follows the surreal events which push a skilled but poorly respected speechwriter to make a deal with his abusive boss and agree to run a loser candidate in a small Ottawa riding to fend of threats of an unwarranted RCMP investigation of fiduciary impropriety…
Had famed American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald died young in the present day, there’s no doubt a tell-all book, if not a TV movie about his relationship with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, would’ve been produced and released within a year or two after his death…
Documentarian Alan Zweig (Vinyl, I, Curmudgeon) tackles the subject of humour from a highly personal vantage using three key questions: Is there a distinction between the humour from Jewish and non-Jewish comedians?
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