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I just got back from attending the Toronto International Film Festival and will be giving you an update regarding the twelve films I saw over the next couple of weeks. “Judy” is my favorite film, due to the outstanding performance by Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland. The film is directed…

  The film is a drama based on the true story of actor and former San Francisco resident Jimmy Fails. It’s about his dream of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Jimmy Fails has said in interviews, “I know this sounds weird, but the…

David Crosby Speaks from the Heart Talk about up close and personal! David Crosby, the songwriter, singer, and guitar player of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young at 76 years old talks openly reflects. Cosby narrates the film and is brutally honest on his regrets, cocaine and heroin…

A Heartfelt Look at Culture and Family Traditions “The Farewell is based on writer and director Lulu Wang’s profoundly personal experience. At the age of 6, she and her family left China & settled in NY. Years later, as an adult, her Grandmother is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Lulu…

First Female Crew to Sail Around the World–Courage at High Seas “Maiden” is the true documentary story of Tracy Edwards, a skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989. Tracy’s dream was met with male opposition, for starters they thought she would never…

Director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ beautiful film gives us an in-depth look at the charismatic and articulate Toni Morrison herself. The best thing about the film is seeing and hearing Toni on-camera! It’s an artful documentary about the legendary and multi-talented storyteller. We see an intimate meditation on her life, her work,…

Jim Gaffigan stars as Frank who is living a lie, he has two separate families, that each don’t know about the other…until his High School senior son Phillip (Logan Miller) finds out. Talk about a crazy scenario, he has two wives, two sons and two daughters. The director is Miranda Bailey….

“Rocketman” is a musical fantasy, of Elton John’s breakthrough years. Taron Egerton plays Elton with flamboyant style and exuberance. He also uses his own singing voice to take us down memory lane. The film gives us a rare look at Elton as a child of a loveless father played by…

“The Biggest Little Farm” is a documentary directed by Emmy Award Winning director John Chester, the film chronicles John Chester and his wife Molly as they acquire and establish themselves on Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark, California. We see the beginnings of their farm as Chester and Mary have a…

In Emilio Estevez’s film, “The Public,” he serves as writer, director, main star and a producer of the film. With the emergency shelters at full capacity during dangerously low frigid temperatures in Cincinnati, Ohio a large group of homeless library patrons led by Jackson, (Michael Kenneth Williams), decide to stay…