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Good morning Chuck!
It may sound cliché on paper, but it’s not. good morning chuck winks at the world of television without however making it the heart of its concerns. The episodes talk about addiction and rehabilitation with humor and sensitivity.
Hugo Dumas
Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru
This fifth installment in the franchise distances itself from its predecessors while betting (but not too much) on the friendly characters in blue overalls. In this regard, we must not trust the trailers of the animated film, which let poor parents fear the worst by overexposing the stupidity of the Minions. The presence of the latter is much better measured in the feature film, which turns out to be very entertaining.
Danielle Bonneau
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Hollywood has given us its fair share of biopics. More than enough. THE biopics truly successful are, however, rarer. Fortunately, I Wanna Dance with Somebodywhich depicts the life and career of Whitney Houston, is among those that stand out for their sensitivity, their concern for realism, their rejection of sensationalism and, above all, their portrayal at the height of the subject.
Marissa Groguhe
Ousted: The Elders Strike Back
You may feel like you know everything about the Mont-Carmel affair, this seniors’ residence in Montreal populated by tenants that a real estate developer is trying to chase away. Well no. It is a sad, shocking and inspiring story, especially when describing the resistance of the group. Another true story that could be made into a film…provided it has a Hollywood ending…
Marc-Andre Lemieux
Love and Death
Inspired by a news item, this dramatic miniseries written by David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, madmen) tells the story of Candy (excellent Elizabeth Olsen), a stay-at-home mom from small town Texas, who decides to start an extramarital affair with Allan (Jesse Plemons), the spouse of a good friend. Whoops. This tortuous affair will come to a tragic and violent end. We learn this in the first episode, whose action is set in 1980. Love and Death (love and death) then plunges us, via a throwback, into the aesthetics of the 1970s, a decade of macrame on the wall, electric knives and Bee Gees tunes.
Marc-Andre Lemieux
Disobey: Chantale Daigle’s choice
The vintage series Disobey: Chantale Daigle’s choice, which takes place between November 1988 and December 1989, becomes, alas, a series well of its time, a time when struggles won for nearly 35 years are reversed. It’s very good, what the team behind this production has meticulously concocted, with remarkable attention to detail.
Hugo Dumas
The Chantale Daigle affair: the documentary
For nearly an hour, Noovo’s former station chief Noémi Mercier takes us back to this sensitive period of 1989, using archive images and enlightening interviews, with activists in particular, who recount detail the secret operation they carried out to enable Chantale to cross the border and obtain her abortion in Boston, United States.
Marc-Andre Lemieux
Succession, season 4
At the start of the season, we weren’t sure we wanted – or rather the mental energy – to attend the Roys’ quarrels. A new cycle of emotional abuse, courtesy of a family as wealthy as it is dysfunctional. Scheming, betraying, repeating. Fortunately, the death of a key character shook the cards in a spectacular and unexpected way. Result: the soap de (big) luxury will leave the air at the end of a fourth and final season punctuated with highlights.
Marc-Andre Lemieux