This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival; for me, it is my 14th Festival. The Indignant Wife started going when she was in university and got me hooked when we got together. So, I have only missed two festivals in 16 years. This year, I saw slightly fewer movies than […]

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Legend When I was choosing films to watch at this year’s festival, this movie leapt out at me the most for the subject matter and the star. If you hadn’t guessed, I am an Anglophile – James Bond, The British Invasion, Monty Python, Doctor Who, are all my favorites, and having grown up in the […]

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Finally, the rain ended and bright, sunny Fall weather stayed with me for the rest of the festival. For the first time in many years, I had a five picture day. As it turned out, the morning was comprised of all Canadian music movies… Born To Be Blue I have long known the story of […]

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After the marathon Monday, I finished my 2015 Festival with three films featuring probably the biggest stars of my fest. Spotlight Like England is renowned for making drawing room dramas (and sometimes comedies), Americans make good newspaper procedurals where journalists are hunting bad things done by bad people, which is being covered up by the […]

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So, it’s been a busy year for your narrator, so I’m going to take a little time off. But before I go, one final couple of thoughts: One of the major sports networks says that the Chicago Bears are going to be the worst team in the NFL, projecting out to 3-13, last in the […]

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I spend too much time on Facebook; I like to see what people are saying. I shame memes and stories that I like; I comment on a few. Sometimes I want to respond to a story but then I decide that a fuller discussion is warranted. This is one of those times. There was an […]

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Now that we have finished with the Top 10 of the unsung comic adaptations, let’s turn our attention to the best of recent years. In terms of time, the forerunners of today’s comic film explosion – Tim Burton’s “Batman,” Richard Lester’s “Superman,” Lester and Richard Donner’s “Superman II” and John Milius’ “Conan The Barbarian are […]

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