Yesterday sucked. There’s no other way of putting it. We had the massacre in Las Vegas – 59 people killed (as of now) and over 500 wounded. The powers that be are issuing their “thoughts and prayers” empty comments with no meaningful gun control in sight (in fact gun stocks went up yesterday after the […]

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Monday, September 11, 2017 As I said in previous posts, certain themes become apparent of the films I watch. Most of the time, these themes are only apparent in retrospect. This is another of those times; I often pick movies based on my interests and one of my interests is history, especially history that occurred […]

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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 I don’t know why I chose the documentary Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond – With a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton. I have seen the Andy Kaufman bio pic “Man on the Moon,” thought it was OK, but while I thought Kaufman funny at first, he lost […]

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I meant to comment on the Toronto International Film Festival when I was making my picks, before I left, but I ran out of time. In retrospect, it is better that I have done this now, after the fact. Before I dissect the films that I saw, there were a lot of factors, business and […]

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I saw 14 films in five days during the first weekend of the Festival, and as always, I will break them down by days: Friday, September 8, 2017 Usually I don’t watch a film on my first day there, but there was a film that I wanted to see that only showed Thursday, the 7th […]

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Sunday, September 10, 2017 I thought that the best chance to see a star would be for The Current War, the latest film starring international superstar Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see the word “War” in the title, one might expect some military movie, but in this case, this is the story over the difference between […]

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I very rarely am on the side of sports owners. They are very rich; they are or are wannabe oligarchs; they often distance themselves from the common people, looking down at us, or just as money to be taken. Often, they treat their players like pawns. Not people easy to root for, or even congratulate. […]

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