Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'billyconnolly'
September 9, 2006
Canadian films don't make money. It's almost a certainty in the Canadian film industry but once in a while a film comes along that gives us hope. This year Fido, just might be that film. Our glowing review is here and other bloggers agree that the zombie comedy (zombedy?) about a '50s community where zombies are pets was the right choice to open the Canada First series. Popped Culture's Jeremy Barker gives thumbs up to......
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When Torontoist began to watch Fido we were a little under whelmed. The opening parody of 1950’s informational film, describing a world in which cosmic space dust has brought the dead back to life and given them an endless hunger for braaainsss… was a little stale (though, yes, informative) and the initial set-up, “Timmy is a lonely little boy whose mummy doesn’t listen and whose daddy doesn’t even see him” is pretty heavily telegraphed. However,......
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