With Rolling Stone starting the proceedings, it’s time for the annual exercise to pick the best music of 2017. In so many ways, 2017 has been a horrible, terrible year, but it has been quite a good year for music. Many critics believe that it is their duty to pick the most obscure albums by […]

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The media is under fire. The Executive Branch lists anything published that calls out their incompetence and/or racism, is blatantly labeled “fake news.” Still, the Washington Post’s exposure of a woman trying to peddle false news, shows that ethics are still being used by the major outlets. I have had a subscription to Rolling Stone […]

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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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