Toni Collette has the reins well in hand in âDream Horseâ
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated May 19, 2021, 2:00 p.m.
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Toni Collette and Dream Alliance in Dream Horse. Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street/Associated Press
For proof of how a gifted performer can lift a middling property to the next level, look no further than âDream Horse,â a British racing drama arriving in theaters this week and on VOD June 11. The movie also makes a case for casting against type. In what may be the dowdiest, most plainspoken role of a mercurial career, Toni Collette plays Jan Vokes, a small-town Welsh grocery clerk who corralled 22 of her fellow villagers into buying a brood mare and raising a prize-winning racehorse. The film is based on a true story, and itâs awfully mild, but Collette gives it a humble yet passionate intensity that makes it stick to the ribs.
Newmarket Creates Thorny Questions May 16, 2021 | Reprints | Print
Boston officials have embarked on an effort to rezone the Newmarket industrial district amid a boom in demand for distribution and biomanufacturing space. But they face a difficult balancing act as they do so.
As Steve Adams details in his story this week, Newmarket is emerging as the “last stand” of traditional industrial real estate in the city proper thanks to zoning regulations that prevent large, complex projects and a serious public safety problem.
As areas like South Boston’s Dorchester Avenue and Charlestown’s Sullivan Circle get rezoned into the city’s next big growth areas, and manufacturing properties deep in Dorchester get redeveloped into housing, their occupants are heading to Newmarket.