For 16 of the past 18 years, I have ventured north of the border to attend the Toronto International Film Festival. It is a mix of big budget films and international superstars shoulder to shoulder with small independent releases and documentaries looking for distribution. However, this is a movie party where the public is not […]

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Sunday, September 11, 2016 There has been lots of press about the film Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker’s film about the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion. It has gotten large positive buzz which has been stopped somewhat because of a rape arrest that Parker had in 1999 while a student at Penn State. The […]

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016 One of the most arresting films I’ve seen over the years was Nobody Knows, a film about kids left on their own in an apartment when the mother left them to try and survive alone. Being Japanese, this was especially interesting since one never thinks of this occurring in an Asian […]

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Often, sports fans see and hear the talking heads on television or radio and say: I can do that. (As someone who worked in television, I have that feeling whenever I see Jeremy Schapp on television – if it weren’t for his dad…) The good and great broadcasters add insightful analysis, become like friends, and […]

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With the Opening Ceremonies of the Rio Olympic Games happening tonight, a small ray of light may glimmer in the darkness of the upcoming Games. It seems that everywhere you look, there’s some article or television piece that blasts the Games, the IOC, and Rio. Even I at evilopinion have reported on the problems with […]

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2016 has been a monster to too many cultural icons: Parliament/Funkadelic’s keyboardist supreme Bernie Worrell, Anton Yelchin, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner, Bowie, Prince. We lost Abe Vigoda and Alan Rickman Away from music, we of course had Muhammad Ali and Gordie Howe barely days apart. Well, this morning we lost two more sports […]

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As we get closer to the July opening of the new Ghostbusters movie, the backlash has been just brutal. The fact that the iconic comedians from the original: Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd have limited participation, and of course Harold Ramis has passed away, is one big problem, but lots of people seem to have […]

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