Brad Pitt on a crazy train, Ron Howard at a cave rescue and a space alien in Indigenous culture
Also Indigenous/settler contact in a long lost opera and frazzled times running a restaurant
Reviews
MOVIES: When even super-heroes need rescuing, a high-school is tricked and thoughts turn to vengeance
Also small films from Canada and the U.K. with high goals
MOVIES: Glitzy Becoming a Queen, paradise spoiled in Costa Brava and Buddhist sci-fi in Karmalink
Also love in and around volcanos and a new, not-improved Gulliver
MOVIES: Summer action, a good summer read, Jane Austen, Leonard Cohen's most famous song
Also Jane Austen's Persuasion, Mrs. Harris's fantasy, a growing up tale and a dog tale among cats
MOVIES: Minions outdone by a mollusk named Marcel and the Regency era lives again with Mr. Malcolm's List
Also: current world events foreseen in a thriller and and life in Paris as we rarely see it
MOVIES: A strong line up this week with Elvis, Emma, The Long Rider and more
Including The Man from Toronto, Inuit girls battling aliens and Ethan Hawke as “The Grabber”
MOVIES: a Toy Story off-shoot, effervescent music in New Orleans and Peter Pan's story reimagined
Also two fantasies about Big Pharma and two British comedies
Still hopeful after all these years
In her book Still Hopeful, Maude Barlow asks what can be done to “inspire young people to see that the life of an activist is a good life?"
Top Gun soars; Emergency kicks racism through teen comedy and Memoria spins a cool mystery
Also: the joys of community bookstores and Anthony Hopkins in one of his lesser works
Your Downton Abbey friends are back; a Parisian couple struggles with old age and a visionary offers wise words to live by
Also: a cryptic view of Men, an Indigenous fight for land, and mild fun x2 from Disney
Movies: Colin Firth in wartime, a French student and the abortion law and Cinderella's most alternate version ever
Also: a nifty modern western and contrasting documentaries: Navalny and Doug & the Slugs
Disney x2: Its latest Marvel movie and its loudest critic, plus more true stories
Also a charmer from France, an immigrant success from Nova Scotia and a mass shooting from Australia
Movies with celebrated origins: a popular franchise, a star classical conductor and a Canadian novel
Also: a vacation puzzle in Mexico and modern young love in Paris
Johnny Depp exposes a pollution cover-up, Jim Carrey battles Sonic and life lessons from a Cow
Also: A Canadian gem, a British period piece with nudity, and the space dreams of Elon Musk