Prolific documentarian Billy Corben just premiered his latest film, Canceled: The Paula Deen Story, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. It tells the story of the disgraced former TV chef who saw her empire crumble in 2013 over allegations […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival has just announced the lineup for its Docs section, featuring 23 titles from 18 countries and 16 World Premieres. The section will open with Oscar-winning director Ben Proudfoot’s The Eyes of Ghana, which follows the life […]

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In his debut feature documentary, South Beach Shark Club (which I reviewed out of DOC NYC 2022), director Robert Requejo Ramos examines the history of an informal group of shark hunters in Miami’s South Beach community from the 1970s to […]

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I met with director Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys) and producer Alfred Spellman on Saturday, September 8, 2018, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss their latest feature documentary Screwball (which I also reviewed). The film tells the story of […]

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Beyond the facts of Bosch's and A-Rod's case, the film is a serious indictment of the MLB, as well, showing its complicity in not only past drug crimes, but these later ones, as well.

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