Make Your Shot (2025) Movie Review

                                                                              

 

                                                                       Jim's Review

          Fantastic film on the journey that South Asian hockey players have gone through to reach the NHL.

                                                                               9.5 out of 10 stars

                                                            About film

Mareya Shot, Keetha Goal: Make the Shot tells the inspiring story of young Canadian hockey players of South Asian descent striving to break barriers and achieve their dreams of being drafted into the NHL. It’s a powerful tale of perseverance, resilience and chasing your goals against all odds.

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The event will feature a dynamic panel moderated by Molly Thomas, host of TVO’s Big [If True]. The panel will include three notable guests from the South Asian community who will discuss the importance of diversity in sports and storytelling:

• JK Gill is one of the first South Asian men to play in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), paving the way for greater diversity in hockey. His journey and insights have been featured on Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi Edition.
• Sandeep Kaur Gill is a Brampton high school teacher, fashion stylist, and influencer known for her bold and innovative designs. Hockey Canada commissioned her to reimagine the Team Canada sweater for the Women’s World Championships in Brampton, blending sport and style.
• Abrar al Mouktaran, Program Coordinator for Hockey 4 Youth Foundation, arrived in Canada from Syria in 2016 and secretly played hockey while wearing her hijab. Now an OCAD graduate, she helps empower newcomer youth through the same program that changed her life.
• Bernice Carnegie is a speaker and author who shares her unique perspective of being born Black in Canada. She credits her interesting journey to her father Herb Carnegie, Canadian Black hockey trailblazer and community icon, and her courageous grandparents who settled in Canada in 1912.

                                                   

  

                                   

Captain America- Brave New World (2025): Movie Review

Marvelous, Maniacal and Massive!  (contains spoilers)                               

Jim's Review

The New Captain America (Anthony Mackie) is back and gets involved in a conspiracy that involved the President of the United States Thadeuss Ross (Harrison Ford).

The Celestial events in Eternals (2021) come to play in this film and so do two characters from Incredible Hulk (2008). (see movie posters below)

Thadeuss Ross is still estranged from his daughter Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) and still trying to make amends to his faults and trying to change.

Meanwhile Captain America is investigating an attempted assassination of Thaddeuss Ross and quickly finds Samuels Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson) is being held in a secret facility for the last 17 years and has big plans he trying to execute.

The plot quickly unravels and Captain America and Danny Ramirez (Joaquin Torres) on a pursuit for the truth.

In the climatic end Thaddeus Ross transforms in the Red Hulk and lays carnage at the White House!

In the end Captain America saves the day and his next mission is perhaps put a new Avengers team together.

8.5 out of 10

The Incredible Hulk (2008), Eternals (2021) and Captain America Brave New World (2025)

About movie

Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Fantastic Four Teaser trailer 2025: Feature article

 

                                                           

                                                         

                                                 Fanstastic Four teaser trailer 2025

                                                             

Fantastic Four movies from previous years.

                                       

DECA Judge in Toronto: Feature article

Friday February 7, 2025

It has been a huge honor to serve as judge since 2011. This year was no different in the professionalism the students showed in dealing with some tough cases.                                  

                                              

Toronto FC 2025 New Season: Feature Article

  Thursday February 6,2025

  It's going to be interesting year watching  Toronto FC as I am part owner of season tickets this year, with that I get access to special events to attend for season ticket holders.

It was packed event at Real Sports Bar in downtown Toronto as TFC Leadership shared this year vision with new coach Robin Fraser who served with the team during the early years leading up to the championship season in 2017

This year bring new challenges as new player and new vision Hunt for Glory takes Toronto FC to uncharted territory to bring back the winning ways into the 2025 season.

Stay tuned for more updates.

                                                                           

                                                     Jim Pagiamtzis and Jon Gauthier 

                                                                               

TFC Leadership taking questions

New Logo and new vision

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The Fire Inside (2024): Movie Review

                                                                          

Jim's Review

Claressa Shields (Ryan Destiny) went on a amazing journey to be win Olympic Gold.

10 out of 10 stars

About film

The story of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, a boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in her country's history to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport.

PreHistoric The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story of the Toronto Ratpors: Book Review

Jim's Review

A very detail look on the rise of the Toronto Raptors and how they evolved as a team in the early years.

9 out of 10 stars

About book

The improbable story of the birth of modern-day pro basketball in Toronto

In just over 25 years, the Toronto Raptors have evolved from an intrepid expansion team to an NBA champion. But for all the triumphs of the past decade, the beginning looked a bit different. When the franchise began its first season in 1995, a pro basketball team in Toronto was viewed as an experiment. There was no playbook to follow, and very few people gave them a chance to succeed. 

In Prehistoric, irreverent Raptors voice and culture writer Alex Wong explores the franchise’s fascinating and unconventional inception through 140 original interviews with those involved with the team’s very beginning, examining the process of how the team came up with their name and logo inspired by the blockbuster film Jurassic Park, taking a behind-the-scenes look at the drafting of star point guard Damon Stoudamire, telling the backstories of a group of misfits who formed the first-year roster, and providing an in-depth look at the team’s opening night victory at the SkyDome and the expansion franchise’s signature win over Michael Jordan and a 72-win Chicago Bulls team. 

The Raptors boldly and intentionally pursued a much different audience in a hockey-first town. The result is a team who went through the necessary growing pains and eventually captured the heart of a city, as told in this essential origin story through the lens of the people who were there to help lay the foundation for a thriving modern-day basketball franchise in Toronto. learn more and buy book

 

Millionaire Success Habits- The Gateway to Weath and Properity: Book Review

                                                                            

Jim's Review

Amazing book from the beginning all the way to the end!

10 out of 10 stars

about book

NEW EDITION--REVISED AND UPDATED with all-new chapters on productivity! Legendary business coach and entrepreneur Dean Graziosi takes you from where you are in life to where you want to be, using simple tools to reshape daily routines and open new doors to prosperity--whether you're a fellow entrepreneur, an employee or executive, or a new grad in your first job.

Millionaire Success Habits is a book designed with one purpose in mind: to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by incorporating easy-to-implement "Success Habits" into your daily routine.

Legendary business coach Dean Graziosi has broken down the walls of complexity around success and created simple success recipes that you can quickly put to use in your life to reach the level of wealth and abundance you desire.

This book is not about adding more time to your day. It is about replacing those things that are not serving your future with success habits designed specifically to assist you on your journey to a better you. In these pages, you'll:

• Drill down deep to identify your "why"--the true purpose that drives you and the real reason you want to prosper
• Expose and overcome the "villain within" that's holding you back
• Unlock the single biggest secret to being productive (it's probably not what you think)
• Believe in your own massive potential--so you can make it a reality
• Use Dean's 30-day Better Life Challenge to catapult you into your new life

Now updated with brand-new chapters on productivity and mastering the art of achievement, Millionaire Success Habits gives you the tools you need to radically reshape your daily routine and open new doors to prosperity. Learn more and buy book

Act - The Modern Actor's Handbook: Book Review

                                                                               

Jim's Review

Insightful book on the power of  evolving into an actor

9 out of 10 stars

About book

“Simply put, I don’t think I would’ve found my voice as an actor without David.” ― Scott Speedman, actor

“Act has the roadmap for the most crucial task of an actor: getting present.” ― Shawn Doyle, actor

A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art of acting from a master teacher.

Act: The Modern Actor’s Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America’s most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg’s techniques: states of being, primaries and secondaries, images that you elaborate up or distill down, modifiers, actions and beats, and more. Although his methods loosely draw on the great acting teachers like Hagen and Meisner back to Stanislavski, he teaches new techniques suited to the best of today’s screen actors. This is a major new work in the actor’s library and will be pulled off the shelf time and again to find that key into a scene, to prepare for an audition, or to find that right technique to make the art come alive again.Learn more and buy book

 

Fantastic Four (1994): Movie Review

                                                                

Jim's Review

Marvelous story of the Fantastic Four 

10 out of 10 stars

About film

The Fantastic Four is an unreleased 1994 English-language German superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The film features the team's origin and first battle with Doctor Doom. 

Den of Thieves 2 Pantera (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                       

Jim's Review

Stellar cast horrible script!

5 out of 10 stars

About film

Lawman "Big Nick" O'Brien gets embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves as he pursues career criminal Donnie Wilson to Europe.

September 5 (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                                     

Jim's Review

Hostage crisis in the 1971 Munich Olympics and American sport broadcasting news finds itself with challenges in covering this event

10 out of 10 stars

About film

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

Star Trek Section 31 (2025): Movie Review

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                    Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) is tasked to protect UFP and faces her past.

                                                                              8.5 out of 10 

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Emperor Philippa Georgiou is tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets. She must also face the sins of her past.

                                                                                 

Unstoppable (2024): Movie Review

                                                                 

Jim's Review

Anthony Robbles (Jharrel Jerome) is totally unstoppable of this true story of a champion who didn't give up to achieve his ultimate goal!

10 out of 10 stars

About film

Born with one leg, Anthony Robles defies expectations to become a champion wrestler in college, competing against the very school that rejected him.