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In recent years, the number of Americans working in agriculture has continued to dwindle, and one industry that’s been hit particularly hard is the pork industry.

The late archbishop's campaign against apartheid drew worldwide respect, but his efforts to fight homophobia had limited impact on his home continent.

Ever since The Invisible Man, the upper-class wife whose luxury real estate becomes an overbearing metaphor for her isolating marriage seems to have become a go-to set-up for indie filmmakers. Last year we had Swallow and The Nest, and this year that plot gets a straight-up genre treatment in Held. The perennially pained-looking Emma (Jill Awbrey, who also wrote the script) is clearly over her square-jawed husband Henry (Bart Johnson), but they’re giving it one more try by escaping to a s...

What’s new on VOD and streaming this weekend: April 9-11 Including Nomadland, Sugar Daddy, The Nevers, Held and Exterminate All The Brutes By Kevin Ritchie and Norman Wilner Apr 9, 2021 N OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of April 9. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. Sugar Daddy (Wendy Morgan) NOW named Kelly McCormack one of Canada’s rising screen stars in 2019. Watch Sugar Daddy and you’ll see why: Morgan’s slightly stylized,...

André Carl van der Merwes autobiographical novel is the basis for this visceral, disturbing ride Author of the article: Chris Knight Publishing date: Apr 09, 2021  •  10 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Kai Luke Brummer stars as Nicholas van der Swart in Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie. Photo by IFC Films Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Artic...

André Carl van der Merwes autobiographical novel is the basis for this visceral, disturbing ride Author of the article: Chris Knight Publishing date: Apr 09, 2021  •  6 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Kai Luke Brummer stars as Nicholas van der Swart in Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie. Photo by IFC Films Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Articl...

Held: 2½ NOMADLAND: What a long trip. Way back in September, it was the “people’s choice” at the Toronto film festival. Since then, it has been written about almost every week, won over 200 awards (including Golden Globes) and received six Academy Award nominations. (It’s often cited as the front-runner). So, finally it’s here — in a very few theatres that are actually open and streaming on Disney+. It has been worth the wait. This is a gentle, must-see film. It starts with images...

NETFLIX © 2021 This week, Netflix released a bombshell announcement that the streaming giant had secured the exclusive U.S. rights to stream Sony Pictures’ upcoming slate of releases including Venom: There Will Be Carnage and the upcoming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. As for new releases of films available to stream and rent at home, we’ve got the much-delayed and finally released Biggie Smalls murder thriller City of Lies, Netflix’s new superhero buddy comedy Thunder Force star...

Kai Luke Brummer, center, in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) South Africa, 1981. A few teenage soldiers, tanned, blond, just out of boyhood, enjoy a rare night out with a few female companions. Michael (Matthew Vey) drags on a cigarette and informs their new friends that, “we don’t feel a thing.” Later, he repeats himself back at camp, near the Angolan border, where the troops patrol for la...

Listen • 3:47 Writer-director Oliver Hermanus created em Moffie /em from an autobiographical novel by André Carl van der Merwe — but he gives the film an air of lived experience. Its Capetown, 1981. A family gathers for what looks like a back-slapping birthday party — but is actually a farewell. In the South African drama Moffie, Nicholas, a teenager whos as subdued as his relatives are raucous, will head off in the morning for military service thats compulsory fo...