Paramount Pictures
80 For Brady

USA, 2023, Dir. Kyle Marvin, 98 minutes

Sound Dolby Digital,, Aspect 1.85 : 1 widescreen

Reviewer John Jane

Kyle Marvin’s rambunctious sports comedy, however, is not about the durable Mr. Brady. Sure, it’s his name in the film’s title and does have a prominent cameo role, but he is really the subject of adoration of four gals older enough to know better. The four elderly women: Lou, Trish, Maura and Betty are played by Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field respectively......Full review

 

Vancouver International Film Festival
Triangle of Sadness

Sweden/UK/USA/France/Greece, 2022, Director: Ruben Östlund, 149 minutes

Date and Venue October 3 & 9, 2022 | Centre for Performing Arts

Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s latest satire will likely appeal to those people that it happily disparages; that is, the obscenely rich, the ridiculously entitled and followers of social media influencers. Full review

Vancouver International Film Festival
Bones of Crows

Canada, - director: Marie Clements, 2022, 127 mins

Date and Venue 29 September 2022, 6.30pm at the Centre for Performing Arts

In English and Cree with occasional English subtitles

Vancouver-born Indigenous director Marie Clements’ beautifully made, though at times disturbing, film follows the fictional story of Aline Spears, a Cree woman growing up in the Canadian Prairies, in the backdrop of the Indian Residential Schools system. Full review