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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Even though it is coming to Netflix, I wanted to see “The Two Popes” a fictionalized story from director Fernando Meirelles about the relationship between Pope Benedict, played by Sir Anthony Hopkins, and the man who would eventually become his successor, the future Pope Francis played by another acting legend Jonathan Pryce. Hopkins is the […]

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In these social media dominated times, when everything almost anyone does is posted online, good or bad. For celebrities, it is much worse – it’s like no one can even go to the bathroom without it being on Twitter. As such, celebrities’ private lives are much more grist for the public mill than ever. With […]

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Despite my advancing age, I don’t think about death too frequently. It’s going to happen to us all, and yes, I am seeing more celebrities who I looked up to or admired passing away. Some, I’ve met (Stan Lee for example), most I have not. However, it is rare for two sports/broadcasting people who I […]

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