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100 SUNSET looks very much like a Tibetan production, mostly because large part of the films shot in Tibetan and most of the players in the film are Tibetan. The story is driven by the activities of Kunsel (Tenzin Kunsel), the taciturn introvert at the...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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This fall, playwright Kanika Ambrose brings two worlds to Toronto’s stages: the salt-air mythos of Moonlight Schooner and the snowy heart of The Christmas Market. Through both, she invites audiences to feel the humour, pain, and poetry of Caribbean...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Theatre
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story within the story: Black artists and organizations are among the season's most celebrated voices. From Kanika Ambrose's play about Caribbean migrant workers, to Natasha Mumba's continent-spanning debut, Esie Mensah's Afrofusion epic ZAYO, and host...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Arts and Entertainment
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the lens to the set to the screen, PURGE is a demonstration of what Black-led genre filmmaking looks like when it refuses to play it safe, and when the story comes from somewhere real. I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression for most of my life,...
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- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Movies
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a voiceover claiming the two personas that inhabit a black man, Clay, the subject of the movie. THE DUTCHMAN is based on the play of the same name, but the film takes the play out into the open on location, so that the staginess is removed. The movie...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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FLORETTE and MANON DES SOURCES, are based on his novels. In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol was a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol's childhood, he sees...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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with innovations in sustainable fabrics and inclusive sizing. Celebrity influence In the world of athleisure, celebrities play a key role. Their influence shapes how we dress for the gym and beyond. From red carpets to social media, their choices set...
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- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Shopping
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(centre) with the cast of A Christmas Carol (Shaw Festival, 2025). Photo by David Cooper. Topics covered Before you press play, here is a snapshot of the ground Allison and Meres cover, from the stagecraft details of this holiday production to the...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Arts & Culture
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her a rose and sharing a dance with her. This gesture represents love, guidance, and respect from the male figures who have played meaningful roles in her life. Jo..rdan is clearly the 18th ROSE The “fake relationship turns into real love” trope is one...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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rundown warehouse. His marriage ended, as a result, which the audience learns from his session with Dr Mary Riley, in a role-playing session in which Riley plays his wife. His wife is never shown in the film. But Dr. in law. The second character only...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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child just beginning to explore the world, and her teenage son Han (Jim Liu, Disney’s American Born Chinese) is a gifted Go player, though one quietly rebelling against the pressure to follow his father’s footsteps. Behind this outwardly perfect image,...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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listener hears it differently. The Soul Rebels For Hubbard, the connective tissue was improvisation itself, the freedom to play whatever the moment calls for rather than follow a fixed structure. He pushed the point to its logical extreme, noting that...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Music
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folklore, natural surroundings, and political climate to effect a realistic and engrossing tale of family. The family on display is Joe (Shaheizy Sam), a handyman doing his best to raise his young, non-verbal daughter Sofia (Samara Kenzo) in the wake of...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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the number of registered social workers and social service workers ready to meet that demand. These regulated professionals play a key role in the mental health care system, and are equipped to help you and your loved ones navigate challenging times....
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- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Mental Health
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for the decades ahead. The power of trusted financial guidance Beyond policies and numbers, personal relationships play a powerful role in shaping financial confidence. Nearly half of Canadians (48%) reported that someone in their life — a parent,...
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- Author: News Editor
- Category: Finance and Money
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Nathan gives a story about how the boat malfunctioned and capsized. - A Family Mystery — A Murder From Before: The film also plays like a cat-and-mouse game between the investigators (police and prosecuting attorney) and the defendant. Director plays...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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The Christmas Movieshttps://afrotoronto.com/content/articles/movie-reviews/the-christmas-movies-2
to the film. The story of KOKUBO opens in Nagasaki in 1964, when kabuki is so controlled that all the female roles are played by males. As such, the two male actors are extremely good-looking, with the film bearing lots of homo-eroticism. The film bears...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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and victim(s). All this could be taken as a giant metaphor as well as tongue-in-cheek, and Sigourney Weaver is excellent at playing tongue-in-cheek. DUST BUNNY, though uneven at times, has a fairy tale, nightmarish feel with emotional undercurrents, and...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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or exclusion, the outputs of AI risk amplifying those same patterns. Christian and Effoduh discuss how this dynamic plays out in areas such as algorithmic surveillance, automated decision-making, and predictive tools that disproportionately affect Black...
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- Author: News Editor
- Category: Business and Innovation
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a 35-yearold actor of past Italian films like THE PEDATORS and TWICE BORN, an ordinary looker but with a nice body, plays Toni with sufficient credible gusto, supported by a strong ensemble cast including Giulia Michelini, Andrea Arcangeli, Aurora...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
