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Reel Beach: East Toronto home an inspiration for Dolores Claman, composer of the iconic Hockey Night in Canada theme music

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022 0 Comments

By BERNIE FLETCHER It’s Hockey Night in Canada. The NHL playoffs are here and long-suffering fans hope to see the Toronto Maple Leafs end their 55-year Stanley Cup drought. Go Leafs Go! The name Dolores Claman may not ring a bell, but everyone knows her iconic music, The Hockey Theme, her gift to Canada’s sport. […]

Reel Beach: Movie Scarborough is nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 0 Comments

By BERNIE FLETCHER Who gets to tell their stories? Books and movies help us to look at the world through different eyes and feel empathy for others. Two new films give us a vision of Toronto’s diverse communities. Scarborough is centred around three children who attend a literacy program run by a wonderful social worker […]

Reel Beach: Remembering 1972, a key year in Toronto’s creative history

March 11, 2022 0 Comments

By BERNIE FLETCHER If laughter is the best medicine, we could all use a laugh these days. Many of us have hunkered down at home watching comedy classics with a “maple” flavour like Ghostbusters, Airplane and Back to the Future…comfort food for the soul in troubling times. What do you remember about 1972, the year […]

Reel Beach: Stanley Grizzle was a tirelesss advocate for labour and civil rights

February 12, 2022February 11, 2022

By BERNIE FLETCHER People pass through the Main Street Subway Station every day, but how many know the name of the little park across the street? Stanley G. Grizzle Park runs from Main Street to Chisholm Avenue where the Grizzle family lived for many years. Who was Stanley Grizzle? Born in Toronto in 1918 to […]

Reel Beach: Born in the Beach, The Amazing Randi was a top magician and crusader against fraudsters

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022

By BERNIE FLETCHER Scams seem to be everywhere. Fraudsters try to redistribute wealth from your pocket to theirs. Apparently Canada Revenue is after me. Not only that, but my grandson is in jail, which is odd because I don’t have a grandson. One notorious conman sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap…twice. In Nightmare Alley Bradley […]

Reel Beach: Photographer Kerry Hayes reflects on his career and recent work on the movie Nightmare Alley

December 11, 2021December 11, 2021

By BERNIE FLETCHER Almost two years after a film crew descended on the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, Nightmare Alley opens this Friday, Dec. 17. The psychological thriller from Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro features a stellar cast, but it takes hundreds of talented people working together behind the scenes to bring a movie to […]

Reel Beach: Test your knowledge of animal actors with our movie quiz

November 20, 2021November 25, 2021 0 Comments

By BERNIE FLETCHER Beachers love our four-legged friends, but critters can be unpredictable. Name these films in which animal actors are put in tricky situations. 1.) In 1961 Sheila Burnford wrote a novel based on her own pets though it wasn’t a true story. Two dogs and a cat travel across the Ontario wilderness trying […]

Reel Beach: Toronto’s contributions to Canada’s collection of dumb comedies

October 23, 2021October 22, 2021

By BERNIE FLETCHER We all have our “guilty pleasures”, especially during a long pandemic. Sometimes we just want to turn off our brains and laugh at dumb comedies like, well, Dumb and Dumber or Weekend at Bernie’s. I’ve been watching Impeachment: American Crime Story about the President Clinton / Monica Lewinsky scandal of the late […]

Reel Beach: Lisa Ray shows we have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving

October 9, 2021October 8, 2021 0 Comments

By BERNIE FLETCHER Cancer touches all of us, but it can be beaten. Thousands “stood up” to cancer with the Terry Fox Run and the Weekend to Conquer Cancer. With Thanksgiving weekend upon us, it’s a good time to remember small miracles like a healthy “cancer graduate” Lisa Ray taking part in the This is […]

Reel Beach: The Marsh King’s Daughter wraps up filming, including scenes shot in the Upper Beach

August 17, 2021August 19, 2021

By BERNIE FLETCHER Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been a busy summer for film production in Toronto. Besides the usual superhero fantasies, cameras rolled on some serious dramas about brave women confronting past abuse. Sarah Polley is directing a stellar cast (including Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy) in Women Talking adapted from the […]

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