Finger Gunz with Tony Dave and James
Sep 16, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
Dave and James bring you their raw thoughts live from TIFF in the Ontario Creates Booth at the TIFF Market. We talk: I Play Rocky, The Julia Set, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, Being Heumann, Stuffed…
Dave BaldwinHost
We're recording this on day four, so I think the best thing to go with is the world premiere of I Play Rocky, which may or may not win the People's Choice Award.
So James and I had the distinct privilege of going to the Visa Infinite Lounge yesterday to get a little sauced up before it and had a good time.
It's about the making of Rocky and kind of Stallone, Sylvester Stallone kind of trying to become an actor.
so and then kind of like the lead up to Rocky him trying to sell it and then eventually selling it and then the making of Rocky so they get to recreate a bunch of scenes they get to kind of show some of the mythical stories you have definitely heard and some of the legends like him selling and buying back his own dog just some of the shenanigans on the Rocky set how gorilla it was how cheaply made it was and it's very inspiring and very gritty story.
Yeah.
As Dave kind of mentioned, like this was this was a lot of fun to be at.
I think I think this helps the way that we kind of experienced it, too.
And I think it's the way that all of you should experience it with try to see this in a theater with a crowd like and, you know, maybe maybe grab a drink at the concession stand beforehand, because like this really is just kind of like a crowd pleasing movie.
Um, it's not perfect by any means.
Um, it is a lot of fun to watch and it scratches a particular niche for me because I do love a movie about making a movie, uh, or a TV show for that reason.
Uh, for that matter, like the, the entire, the, the one where they're making, uh, the offer with the talking about the Godfather, that was like eight episodes.
I was enthralled the entire time.
And it's, it's kind of, uh, interesting that you mentioned that film because Anthony Apolito, uh, plays Al Pacino in that, I said film, it's a series.
Anthony Ippolito plays Al Pacino there, and here he plays Sylvester Stallone, and he's got the juice,
man.
Yeah, he does.
We were kind of talking about that in another screening this morning.
We'll talk about that movie in a little bit down the line, but they were like, oh, it's crazy for one actor to be able to play Pacino and Stallone.
We're recording this on day four, so I think the best thing to go with is the world premiere of I Play Rocky, which may or may not win the People's Choice Award.
So James and I had the distinct privilege of going to the Visa Infinite Lounge yesterday to get a little sauced up before it and had a good time.
It's about the making of Rocky and kind of Stallone, Sylvester Stallone kind of trying to become an actor.
so and then kind of like the lead up to Rocky him trying to sell it and then eventually selling it and then the making of Rocky so they get to recreate a bunch of scenes they get to kind of show some of the mythical stories you have definitely heard and some of the legends like him selling and buying back his own dog just some of the shenanigans on the Rocky set how gorilla it was how cheaply made it was and it's very inspiring and very gritty story.
Yeah.
As Dave kind of mentioned, like this was this was a lot of fun to be at.
I think I think this helps the way that we kind of experienced it, too.
And I think it's the way that all of you should experience it with try to see this in a theater with a crowd like and, you know, maybe maybe grab a drink at the concession stand beforehand, because like this really is just kind of like a crowd pleasing movie.
Um, it's not perfect by any means.
Um, it is a lot of fun to watch and it scratches a particular niche for me because I do love a movie about making a movie, uh, or a TV show for that reason.
Uh, for that matter, like the, the entire, the, the one where they're making, uh, the offer with the talking about the Godfather, that was like eight episodes.
I was enthralled the entire time.
And it's, it's kind of, uh, interesting that you mentioned that film because Anthony Apolito, uh, plays Al Pacino in that, I said film, it's a series.
Anthony Ippolito plays Al Pacino there, and here he plays Sylvester Stallone, and he's got the juice,
man.
Yeah, he does.
We were kind of talking about that in another screening this morning.
We'll talk about that movie in a little bit down the line, but they were like, oh, it's crazy for one actor to be able to play Pacino and Stallone.
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