The last person I thought I’d run into at a festival of early “talkie” films in upstate New York was George Chuvalo. This was an annual event which ran for 35 years in Syracuse, N.Y., and showcased films – sometimes with live music accompaniment – projected on 16mm film. The guy who founded the festival,
TNA Wrestling stars Santino Marella and Allie were comin’ atcha Friday morning at the Anthem Sports & Entertainment breakfast at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. The pair added some punch to this Toronto International Film Festival tradition, the unofficial kickoff to TIFF. The breakfast, hosted for years by long-time brioux.tv sponsor Hollywood Suite, always
The biggest shock now about the September 11 attacks is that they happened 25 years ago. When I was barely a teen in 1970, it seemed unfathonable that World War II had ended just 25 years earlier. The world seems to be spinning at such an excellerated pace now, 25 years seem to have flown
Here is an offer you just can’t refuse: hanging out in a Toronto bar styled after the hit streaming series Mobland. The folks at Paramount+ Canada — one of the valued sponsors here at brioux.tv — announced Wednesday that they have brought a taste of the edgy crime series to T.O. It is all timed
Son of a Critch, Canada’s most popular sitcom, had a problem in 2025. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, who plays young Mark Critch circa 1990-ish, had grown into a teen sensation. First, HBO Max hired him to work a few episodes of House of the Dragon. Then there was a little project, based on a Nintendo videogame,
All things must pass, as George Harrison once said. Which brings us to the fifth and final season of Son of a Critch, the CBC sitcom based on the early life of Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes). Last June as production wrapped I met with the four main castmates from the series —
Gloria Steinem was always more of a feminist icon than a TV personality. Still, her appearance at a memorable Television Critics Association press tour gathering in July of 2011 packed a Beverly Hilton ballroom. The social movement advocate, who passed away Sept. 2 at 92, was at TCA to promote Gloria: In Her Own Words,
If you saw Season Three of Shrinking on AppleTV, you probably got a kick out of seeing Michael J. Fox return to regular series television. Fox plays Gerry, a Parkinson’s patient Harrison’s shrink character Dr. Paul Rhoades meets at an appointment. In a release Tuesday it was explained that the “candor and chemistry” between the