The film I believe is the likely winner of the Grolsch People Choice Award (being announced as I post this, so I could be right or wrong) is “If Beale Street Could Talk,” the follow up of director Barry Jenkins’ Oscar Award winnung “Moonlight,” is an adaptation of a book by the great James Baldwin. […]

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My final day started with “First Man” the story of NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the Moon. The film reunites “La La Land” director Damian Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling. Produced by Steve Spielberg and others, the film is a straight forward picture about Armstrong. Fortunately, Armstrong is a stoic, […]

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Thirteen and one half years ago, we moved into our house here in Skokie. We met a lot of the neighbors, they were and are wonderful people. It’s been a long time now, but I don’t remember how we met our neighbors at all he end of the block. You couldn’t help but notice the […]

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There has been a big deal over the weekend regarding Major League Baseball and Cubs’ infielder/outfielder Ben Zobrist over footwear. One might ask: is he wearing orange cleats, or stiletto heels or maybe 1970s era Gene Simmons KISS platform monster shoes? As it turns out, Zobrist wears black cleats, he says as a tribute to […]

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Long time readers know that I am a movie fan. I watch lots of movies, have attended the Toronto International Film Festival for 17 of the past 19 years. I used to watch lots of comedies, but they don’t do much for me anymore – too many dick and fart jokes, very little wit. I […]

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One of the worst things about being a sci-fi/comics guy is the other members of the club. Besides being a “cowardly and superstitious lot” in the words of Bruce Wayne way back in 1939, we tend to care too much about our characters, their lives and continuity. We always forget that these are all make […]

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Well, we got the music best of list out of the way a couple of weeks ago; this time, it’s my list of the best films I’ve seen this year. As the title says, this is a best 10 list with 12 movies because there are four films that are topically or stylistically linked. Not […]

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