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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'guyterrifico'

September 6, 2006

True Love: The latest film from the superb Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany, it is, like so many of their works, a little hard to distinguish from a comedy sketch, unless you remember just how bad sketch shows currently are. This goes a little farther than most though by taking its flight of fancy to wonderful extremes, keeping the joke going well into the credits. Completely brilliant. 4.5/5 Citizen Duane: This Torontoist will be honest:......

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March 23, 2006

It’s an interesting and potentially important time for English language Canadian filmmakers, with several Canadian films managing to reach cult hit status, such as It’s All Gone Pete Tong and The Life And Hard Time of Guy Terrifico. With only five percent of movies seen by Canadians made by Canadians (according to the program guide) and the writer of It’s All Gone Pete Tong Michael Dowse expressing a wish for Canadian content quotas for cinemas......

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December 16, 2005

This week in film we come to you first of all with news from the last week in film (uh…) Most of which we slightly embarrassingly forgot to mention, as it’s all good stuff. First up, if you happen to know any filmmakers (or budding ones) who are also children somewhere between grade 3 and 12, submissions for this coming April’s Jump Cuts Young Filmmakers’ Showcase, part of the Sprockets Children's Film Festival, are......

Continue Reading "The Week in Film: Jury's Out"

November 21, 2005

Some of the best lines in cinema come from mocumentaries, like "Spinal Tap is swimming in a sea of sexual retardation," "Blaine is the stool capital of the world" or "Turn down the suck" (Ok, maybe not the last one). Now we can add "Hump the drum" to that list, thanks to local director Michael Mabbott's contribution to the genre, The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico. It features Ex-Superfriendz front man Matt Murphy......

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September 9, 2005

So… The festival has been on for a full day, and Torontoist has very little to actually report, having stayed in for the night. Well, it did see the star of Short Cuts Canada film ‘Patterns’ (by Jamie Travis) wearing a stylish lime green dress and looking a bit confused, so there is that, if anything. That film is in Programme 5: Genre Redux, if you like the sound of her. Visions -- “The......

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