As a young Toronto school teacher, Linda Schuyler decided to introduce her Grade 8 students to the art of filmmaking. As it says on the inside flap of her new book, “The Mother of all Degrassi: A Memoir” (ECW Press), this was a momentous decision. “It set in motion a career of storytelling for an
Imagine if this fall CBS or Netflix or anybody had launched a sitcom about a group of office workers in one of the upper floors of the World Trade Center — and had set it in the year 2001. No one would dare, right? Yet, in 1965, just twenty years after the end of World
To no one’s surprise, the fifth season of The Crown shot right to the top of the weekly Netflix Top-10 in Canada, the US and The UK, as well as several other countries. It got there with no help from me. I haven’t started to stream it yet, and I’m about as excited about the
Actors and actresses from When Calls the Heart have been among the most-listened to guests in the three years since brioux.tv: the podcast was launched. Clearly, “Hearties” are everywhere, and in Canada they subscribe to Super Channel. The service has a fascinating history. Think of how the media landscape has lurched from one disruption to another this
At the 9:09 mark of the pilot episode of Tulsa King, Sylvester Stallone knocks out his first palooka. It’s a clean right cross, boom, lights out. And why not? As Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi, he’s got every right to be a little testy. He just served 25 years in a Philly slammer, “definitely
There were some shakeups on the Netflix chart this week as Inside Man premiered in the No. 2 spot overall. The four-episode, BBC-Netflix co-production is about an American death row prisoner with a sideline in solving mysteries (played by Stanley Tucci) helping a young British journalist (David Tennant) search for a missing friend. Season 4
Yo, Adrienne! Sylvester Stallone was in Toronto Monday to promote the premiere of his new Paramount+ crime boss drama Tulsa King. An industry crowd packed the Scotiabank Cinema for the pilot episode. Reviews are embargoed until Friday but suffice to say the crowd gave the Hollywood icon plenty of love at the screening. Stallone spoke
Charlie Hunnam does not like to watch himself on screen, especially at film festivals. The star of AppleTV+’s Shantaram was in Toronto recently to promote the 12-episode adventure drama. He did the red carpet and waved to the audience but ducked out of a screening at the Bell Lightbox Theatre. As you’ll hear on the