Sunday, September 29, 2019

Hustlers (2019); Movie Review



                                                                            


            Jim Pagiamtzis review:
          The true story of  Destiny (Constance Wu) and what happened to her life when she met  Ramona (Jennifer Lopez) in 2008 just before the financial collapse that hit the  United States.

   The highs and lows the Destiny went through and the business that she started with Ramano post financial crisis that changed all their lives forever.

           For the most part  you follow Destiny journey yet it seemed that later in the movie is more about the impact that Ramona made on her and their rest of the team when they hit struggles.

              7 out of 10 stars


            About film

Working as a stripper to make ends meet, Destiny's life changes forever when she becomes friends with Ramona -- the club's top money earner. Ramona soon shows Destiny how to finagle her way around the wealthy Wall Street clientele who frequent the club. But when the 2008 economic collapse cuts into their profits, the gals and two other dancers devise a daring scheme to take their lives back.


                                             

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Wine and Cheese Social at Centre for Social Innovation -Spadina: Event Location


   Friday Sept 13th


  It was the annual Wine and Cheese event at Center for Social Innovation on Spadina.

Check out the short video and pictures from the amazing event.

                                                

                                                

                                     
            



                     










Ad Astra (2019) Movie Review

Space, Stars & Suspense


                                                                      

        Jim Pagiamtzis review

              In intropective look at relationship between Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) and his long lost father Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) in the journey to end of the solar system to find life.

              The voyage has its twist and turn and the cinematic visual make you feel that you are there. Director James Gray pulls of masterpiece of what the planet look and feels like

                  The story is very slow with a few scenes of action in the end  its about the relation ship between Roy and his father that is the most important thing of all.

         8 out of 10 stars

    Sujit Reddy Review
  Good: Amazing visuals which made you feel like you were there throughout the journey
  Bad: Not enough character interaction or conversational dialogue between characters
 Ugly: Liv Tyler was wasted

          Movie Plot:
Thirty years ago, Clifford McBride led a voyage into deep space, but the ship and crew were never heard from again. Now his son -- a fearless astronaut -- must embark on a daring mission to Neptune to uncover the truth about his missing father and a mysterious power surge that threatens the stability of the universe.  IMDb on film

                                         

Monday, September 23, 2019

Essentialism: Book Review



                                                                  

              Jim Pagiamtzis review
              A spectacular book that took me a few weeks to finish. It was amazing to read all the strategies, tip and suggestions that Greg McKeown makes. I had done some of them!

   10 out 10 stars

             

              about book
               NSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER 

Have you ever felt the urge to declutter your work life?

Do you often find yourself stretched too thin?

Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?

Are you frequently busy but not productive?

Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?

If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.

The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.  It is not  a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter. 

By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.

Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to do less, but better, and declutter and organize their own their lives, Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.buy book

                   

(True) Story: Blood. Cops and cover-up


Blood. Cops and cover-up

      

It was 2008 and John (not his real name) was doing set work for Saw 3 in downtown Toronto. During this particular night he was doing work which covered him with blood the entire night. He didn’t think anything of it so he got in his care and went home.

On his way he stopped to put gas in his car and went in to pay for the gas. The gas attendant gave him this weird look as he paid and he left the gas station and went to his car and continued to his journey
About 20 minutes later he saw police signs behind and he pulled over. 

The officer  approached and asked him to get out of his car. He asked “why?” and then the officer said again “get out of your car now!” so he got of his car and he put him on the ground and put his both hands behind his neck and cuffed him. He then swiftly felt the cops knee on his back and on the ground he was.

He continued to ask “what have done wrong, why have you cuffed me!” 

The office went back to his fellow cops as they celebrated they had made a big arrest.

He then comes back and John says to him “ I am set director for saw, been on set all night this is fake blood. The call sheet is in my bag in the car you can call the producer his information is on the top left of the sheet. He is sleep right now but I want you to call him and verify that I am who say I am!”

The cop reluctantly goes to the car and get the backpack and brings it to him to get the sheet from the zipper with his teeth he pulls it out The cop goes back to his unit and about 5 minutes later he comes back.

He lifts him up and un-cuffs him and says ‘ Go the fuck home right now!”

John responds “ I want a copy of the police report with you names, badges numbers”

Cops says ‘If you want that then hit me and I will give you damn report”

John thinks for a bit and goes back to his car and drives away

He faced some ridicule at work for the next few weeks about cleaning up after work.

The reason I want to write this story is that perception and optics happen daily and even gas attendant, police officer can make a mistake.

The Word on The Street: Event Review


   Sunday September 22,2019

    It was the annual Word on The Street Event held at Harbourfront Centre  with author and businesses sharing all types of books

   Learn more about Word on the Street
                                                      


                                                      
Michael A. Amos Author, Speaker and Actor

Alexandra Bernard Simmons Author, Speaker

Speaker sharing insights on their books






The Toronto Star Tent

Mobile Library

kids working on their fishing skills

Guitarist singing

Jabuka

                                              
CN Tower

Boardwalk

boardwalk

Martin Goodman Trail