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Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Why am I so gripped by this? I'm sitting in a boat on the St. Lawrence River in Gananoque, Ont., with [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Late in the new documentary To Kill a Tiger, a villager lobs a threat at its Canadian writer/director, Nisha Pahuja, and [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Let us now hail Connie Britton. With a steadiness remarkable for Hollywood, the actor, 55, has given us character after character [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail 80 for Brady CLASSIFICATION : PG ; 98 MINUTES Directed by Kyle Marvin Written by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins Starring [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail When the producing duo behind Babe Nation Films, Katie Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott, along with the screenwriter Alanna Francis, pulled up [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The first time a man ground his erection into my derrière on a New York subway, I was 22. I whipped [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail In 2017, when the CBC series Workin' Moms was brand new, I moderated a panel discussion at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER I mean, come on. First Sarah Polley wrote a bestselling book of essays, Run Towards the Danger, which fearlessly calls to account Canadian institutions the Stratford Festival [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Taffy Brodesser-Akner, the journalist-turnednovelist-turned-screenwriter, and a married mother of two, awoke one morning when she was 40 to find that all [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Three Pines, the new Prime Video series that premiered Friday, began as ought-tobe-Canadian and ended up yesCanadian-enough. The source material is [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Most of the new drama Women Talking takes place on a single set - a hayloft - where Mennonite women who [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail If the global lockdown of 2020 gave us an opportunity to reflect on our humanity, four of film's most lauded writer/directors [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail David Suzuki has such boundless energy, and his place in the Canadian firmament is so fixed, that audiences were surprised in [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The Swearing Jar CLASSIFICATION: N/A ; 111 MINUTES Directed by Lindsay MacKay Written by Kate Hewlett Starring Adelaide Clemens, Patrick J. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Want to see what a woman looks like when a man is making her terribly uncomfortable, but she's pretending not to [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail In a typical true-crime story, the crime itself is fetishized. If, say, a male nurse is serially killing patients by injecting [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Rarely have I seen a documentary about an artist that takes you deep inside their process and shows you their work [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER 'I don't know if there's going to be another Elton John record,' Elton John told me on Sept. 8. 'I've made too many Elton John records, probably. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail In my career as a filmgoer, I have seen truly terrible movies. Don't Worry Darling is not one of them. Then [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ, KATE TAYLOR, JOHANNA SCHNELLER, APARITA BHANDARI BEST $450-MILLION EVER SPENT As the streaming war rages on, Netflix arrived in Toronto bearing big-screen gifts that were actually small-screen [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail When we reach the spot in Toronto's Cedarvale Ravine where, in spring, a runoff of iron from the city streets meets [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER 'I'm not a wreck, I'm angry,' a woman tells a condescending man in the new AppleTV+ series Bad Sisters. 'And that doesn't make me drunk or crazy [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail 'I guess this is my sign-off from CTV.' That's the line that killed me most in the video that award-winning journalist [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER Everyone who works in Canadian television appreciates the irony. For decades, creators of homegrown series shaved off the edges of their Canadian-ness, the better to sell to [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris CLASSIFICATION: PG; 115 MINUTES Directed by Anthony Fabian Written by Carroll Cartwright, Anthony Fabian, Olivia Hetreed [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail More evidence that women, especially women over 50, are being pushed backward (as if we needed more). The new film Mrs. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail The actress Oyin Oladejo is having trouble sleeping these days. Racine, the character she's playing in Aleshea Harris's awardwinning play Is [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I love the collective consciousness of television and film. An idea is aloft in the zeitgeist. Interpreters catch it. Then something [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness CLASSIFICATION: PG; 126 MINUTES Directed by Sam Raimi Written by Michael Waldron Starring Benedict [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Until her agent sent her the script, Keira Knightley had never heard of Charlotte Salomon. Most people haven't. The Jewish painter [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Among the many meta moments on the set of Roar, the new Apple+ anthology series based on Cecelia Ahern's short-story collection [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail All My Puny Sorrows CLASSIFICATION: 14 A; 103 MINUTES Directed by Michael McGowan Written by Michael McGowan, based on the novel [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Emmanuel Kabongo, the upand-coming Canadian actor, writer and producer, set himself a goal this year: 50,000 push-ups. That's 137 per day. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail I won't justify the slap. Obviously, I'm referring to Will Smith at the Oscars last night, smacking presenter Chris Rock after [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Gentle reader, here is a spoiler for the new season of the period-romance series Bridgerton, which is now streaming on Netflix: [...]

Byline: Barry Hertz and Johanna Schneller The Academy Awards fashions itself Hollywood's Biggest Night - but all signs point to this Sunday's ceremony going down as Hollywood's Biggest Dumpster Fire. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Deep Water CLASSIFICATION: R; 115 MINUTES Directed by Adrian Lyne Written by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, based on the novel [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail When the cast wall went up, everyone got a lump in their throats. Headshots of the actors playing the 100-odd characters [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail Spotify is standing by Joe Rogan, though it has removed 70 of his podcasts that contain racist language. Whoopi Goldberg is [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER; Special to The Globe and Mail 'I'm not everyone's cup of tea,' Patricia Arquette admitted during a recent interview. It's instructive to ponder why that might be. [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER Lead While building her career as a CBC star, Anna Maria Tremonti kept gravitating to the same types of stories - gender-based violence, trauma, conflict, survival. She [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead The 355 CLASSIFICATION: PG; 138 MINUTES Directed by Simon Kinberg Written by Simon Kinberg, Bek Smith and Theresa Rebeck Starring [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead The Lost Daughter CLASSIFICATION: R; 121 MINUTES Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel by [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead In the new film The Lost Daughter, Leda - an academic and mother of two, played by Olivia Colman in [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Environmental activists David Suzuki and Tara Cullis will try anything to stave off the Earth's climate emergency. (Married since 1973, [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead BIGGER PICTURE Sandra Bullock doesn't see her characters as heroic. 'Heroes know they're successes,' she says during a recent Zoom [...]

Byline: JOHANNA SCHNELLER, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead Cheeky. 'That's the word I've been called most in my life,' the actor Jamie Dornan said in a phone interview [...]