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The idea of the sugar daddy romancing and supporting young women is as old as the hills. The films of the Depression when money was tight visited it again and again. According to filmmaker Carly Stone, sugar daddies are with us still and her new film goes inside for a peek. Stone’s film The New …
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Canadian environmentalist and conservationist Rob Stewart launched a movement with the 2006 release of his painstakingly made documentary Sharkwater on the devastation of shark habitats and their dwindling numbers. Stewart attracted people to the cause, to save the ocean’s largest predator that does …
First Man, the Neil Armstrong story starring Ryan Gosling, is an enormous, painstaking and beautiful film that captures the excitement of the space race in the 60’s. It was important for the US government to get a man on the moon to establish US dominate of space and to beat the Russians who had …
The talk of the town since its debut at TIFF, Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born is the fourth iteration of the old chestnut in which a celebrated male performer is eclipsed by his newbie wife’s burgeoning career. Lady Gaga and director co-star Cooper have electricity and chemistry to spare, they fit …
The TIFF films Fahrenheit 11/9, Sharkwater Extinction and Jennifer Baichwal’s stunning documentary Anthropocene are the trinity of enlightened environmental films that must be seen. Each is an alarm warning us that our future and the planet’s ability to sustain us are not certain. Baichwal, Nic de …
