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After what feels like a surprisingly long gap of film festivals in the city, they’re back, with The Prisoner Justice Film Festival now running and Ozflix starting tonight with screenings of Ten Canoes and 2:37; We pretty much hated 2:37, though (but we’ve heard good things about Ten Canoes). Full details can be found at their respective websites.

Torontoist first laid eyes on Badly Drawn Boy three-odd years ago, when he played the inaugural show of his first International tour at Montreal's Club Soda. The man held on for three plus hours, and even when his band took an intermission, he sailed on, dazzling with a one-man piano medley. After the show, the band ate 99 cent pizza, and played foos at Club Foufounes, until their manager informed them that touring wasn't all pizza on St. Catherine Street and chumming about with the locals.

But while those movies were pure suck, despite the Thai Jail Trend, a movie with Colin Firth and Hugh Grant and no Clare Danes cannot be completely miserable. Torontoist recognizes it might be alienating its core audience, 18-34 year-old Ipod-owning urban males, with this brazen chickflick romcom of a recommendation, but you have to risk unpopularity for a cause sometimes. And this is one of those times.