Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Night Watches Us”: No Police Brutality Here in Canada Eh?

There has been a long history of police brutality towards blacks in the United States. Perhaps a “modern” starting point for many might be the severe beating Rodney King suffered at the hands of the LAPD in 1991 and of course the notorious police murder of George Floyd in 2020 an incendiary device for BlackContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Night Watches Us”: No Police Brutality Here in Canada Eh?”

Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Ghosts of the Sea”: Sailing Into the Heart of Darkness

When I read the PR blurb sent my way by the National Film Board of Canada describing “Ghosts of the Sea” my impressions were it was an interesting little adventure story about Virginia Tangvald’s father Peter Tangvald and brother Thomas Tangvald two expert sailors who both perished at sea. I was thinking a “National GeographicContinue reading “Toronto 2025 Hot Docs: “Ghosts of the Sea”: Sailing Into the Heart of Darkness”