Results tagged “oshawa”

Oshawa, you big, adorable, patriotic lug, your heart really is in the right place. But seriously, calm down or you're going to pull something.

Time has flown by but it's time to wrap up Marky Mark Movie Month here at Reel Toronto. We've already tackled Four Brothers and Max Payne and now it's time to reach back to 1998's The Big Hit which is a big, dumb, action flick that pokes almost enough fun at itself to be watchable. If nothing else (not to dis Marky Mark), it has a ridiculously over-the-top Lou Diamond Phillips performance which seems designed to make people start quoting him in cool situations...whether you choose to actually do so is entirely up to you.

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or--in rare cases--proudly display our city.

The Star says that an immigration crackdown has halved the number of exotic dancers in Toronto over the last decade, fuelling lap-dance inflation and forcing strip club customers to make hard choices between Froot Loops for the kids and throwing twenties at naked strangers.

It suddenly gets hot today with a forecast high temperature of 32º, meaning newspapers are required by law to run daily photos of people frolicking in fountains. Sprinklers are also acceptable, provided a dog is included in the shot.