Well, the Golden Globes are over and next week come the Academy Award nominations, and it was a good year for film. I was able to see a few of the best of the year before they were released in cinemas or on streaming services. Overall, more and more films at the Toronto International Film […]

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One of my long time evilopinion traditions is to list my favorite records of the year. I am still old school, I buy CDs and then load them onto my iPod. Redundant? Sure, but I like having a physical object just in case something happens. Also old school, is my list. I looked at the […]

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I’m going to come out and say it – I don’t give a damn about arbitrary deadlines. Occasionally, I have donated money to charities and political campaigns, usually to the Left of the political spectrum, and I do understand the rules in the current Democratic debate guidelines that you have to have raised so much […]

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Long time readers know that my “Daddy only” trip is to TIFF, six days out of town for the first half of the festival. This is my 19th TIFF; over those years, I have seen some of the most interesting, controversial films over the past 21 years. This year I saw 13 films. Here is […]

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Another gloriously beautiful sunny Fall day in Toronto and I had only two films this day. I originally had four films but in my haste to pick films, the times overlapped, so I needed to make changes. My first film was the most conventional studio film of all my picks. Just Mercy is the dramatization […]

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When choosing my films, there were a couple of films that I felt I needed to see at all costs. One of mine was “Dolemite Is My Name” the story of comedian Rudy Ray Moore who in the 1970s became the second most popular Black recording comedian after Richard Pryor. Eddie Murphy comes back as […]

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I am a big fan of director Taika Waititi even since the hilarious vampire film “What We Do In The Shadows” and “Thor: Ragnarok,” I was intrigued by his latest film “Jojo Rabbit.” This is a World War II story featuring a 10-year-old being indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth, and he is a true believer. […]

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