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is always a small microcosm of what's going on in the community." That observation captures something essential. The stadium did not simply exist alongside these Black communities; it grew up inside them, and they grew up around it. When I lived in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Commentaries
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primarily for the film’s performances. The scripts not without humour. In one oft rare but funniest segments, Nick asks, “Why did you kill the dog?” “Dosbark, comes the reply. Do you like dogs?” Nick is asked, and he replies yes. “I do too,” comes the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosley, and an array of renowned writers, Edna does not shy away from any subject. Blue Road is as candid, dark, and enchanting as O’Brien’s wonderful novels. One of the best biopics to be seen, BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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obtaining rights to her own music. She had not received royalties for 32 years. The legal settlement she eventually received did not compensate for those lost decades, though it did provide compensation for the previous decade and 50 percent of the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Arts & Culture
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life, the character Foster played was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment and died in prison, a fate well deserved. Christy did not publish any biography or book on herself, but she served as an advisor to the film. This is not the first film about...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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savage man versus beast thriller (touted as a survival thriller) from celebrated Dutch action filmmaker Roel Reiné, who also did the music of the film. Driven by what the press notes call edge-of-your-seat suspense, tension, and primal stakes, SAVAGE...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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online. The reality is that Madison spends most of her time in her hotel eating food and is upset that her boyfriend Ryan did not come with her. Madison is befriended by CW, who takes her on a tour of hotspots. It is slowly revealed that CW lures...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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to the devil in a church with an inverted cross given to him by his dad, and fails to detail anything more. And where did Dr Ian Kelson come from? All the characters in THE BONE TEMPLE are present for no reason and interact without much expansion. All...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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how fucked up Americans really are. HOMEGROWN is a very timely, disturbing and unforgettable documentary that captures key candid moments of the insurrection on Capitol Hill. A definite must-see for Trump supporters to see how they are perceived. Here...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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turmoil and chaos. The multiple stories can get confusing, but it might take one to pause the film for a while (which I did) to put the whole story together, as well as to connect all the characters. Still, STATE OF FEAR is an above average high octane...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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other angle always worked faster because it was locked in. On set, we had… Me, the DP, but he was running sound too, since he didn’t have to operate the cameras, Grip/Gaffer (one guy), Make up/Hair (one girl), production designer, a PA, and the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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sayings uttered by Ali’s father are supposedly killed earlier in the movie. Two things could have happened. Either the father did not die, or the scene is Ali’s dream sequence; most likely the latter. The gardener that Ali hires could also be...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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done.” Each of the 4 reveal the worst thing they had done, but Emma confesses the worst thing that she actually, ironical did not do. While the others reveal cyber-buying to locking a kid in the closet, Emma reveals she once planned a school shooting...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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when you walk through the door. Photo credit: Nia Centre for the Arts The roots of the scene Toronto's Black art community did not emerge from nowhere. Caribbean migration in the 1960s and 1970s brought with it a rich tradition of oral storytelling,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Arts & Culture
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and most of those friendships, she says with a laugh, started over a meal. But cooking was still a side thing, something she did alongside life rather than as the centre of it. The shift came in two stages. The first was an event booking roughly a...
- Type: Article
- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Lifestyle
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History Society and was instrumental in the Government of Canada's 1995 proclamation of February as Black History Month. She did all of this as an unpaid volunteer, while raising three children and working full-time. Rosemary Sadlier Her impact did not...
- Type: Article
- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Community
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on a university campus, or in post-show conversations with strangers, people open up to him and to the music in ways he did not anticipate. Ottawa, in particular, left a mark. He met Black founders, artists and community organisers there who made him...
- Type: Article
- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Music
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on drugs, depression or other indulgences. For Poldi, it is spat when he was hounded by the media during the phase when he did not perform well on the football field. The film also focuses on what it is like for a sportsman to retire. Poldi faces the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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redemption. So, Robin and the film have only one way to go. What will Robin do now? Seek redemption or just live with his sordid past? Robin striving and getting his redemption at the very end is the only way this film can go. Not that anyone cares in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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James was careful to frame the exchange as mutual rather than top-down. Johnson, with four decades in the business, did not walk into the room dictating how things should be done. She asked the producer to teach her his process so the two could build...
- Type: Article
- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Music
