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James Allodi
James Allodi (born February 26, 1967) is a Canadian actor, writer and director. Career James Allodi earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a Major in Film, from New York University. Since then, the writer, director, and actor has amassed an impressive resume of stage, television and film credits. His first feature film was the critically acclaimed, off-beat comedy ''The Uncles''. Television directing credits include ''Naked Josh'' (which won him a Gemini Award for best direction), '' Rent-A-Goalie'', ''Paradise Falls'', ''Degrassi'', and '' The Associates''. As an actor, he starred in Daniel MacIvor's ''Wilby Wonderful'', Paul Gross' ''Men With Brooms'' and Peter Lynch's Genie Award nominated feature-length documentary '' The Herd''. Allodi had a recurring role in the television series '' Once A Thief'', and has appeared in numerous other series including '' The Associates'', '' The Newsroom'', and ''Due South''. Filmography * '' Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'' (1995) * ''Due So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herd (1998 Film)
''The Herd'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Peter Lynch and released in 1998. The film documents the history of the Canadian government's failed Reindeer Station project of 1929, when it attempted to transport a herd of reindeer from Alaska to the Mackenzie River delta in the Northwest Territories. The film blends archival footage with docudrama reenactments acted by a cast including Colm Feore, James Allodi, Graham Greene, David Hemblen, Doug Lennox, Don McKellar and Mark McKinney. The film premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival. It received a television broadcast on CBC Television in 2001. The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 19th Genie Awards."Who'll win the Genie awards?". ''The Province'', December 8, 1998. References External links * * The Herd' at the National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Cake
''Snow Cake'' is a 2006 British/Canadian indie romantic comedy drama film directed by Marc Evans and starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire and Callum Keith Rennie. It was released on 8 September 2006 in the United Kingdom. Filmed in Wawa, Ontario, ''Snow Cake'' is a drama about the relationship between autistic Linda (Weaver), and British tourist Alex (Rickman), who has a change of heart after a deadly automobile accident involving himself and Linda's daughter Vivienne (Hampshire). Plot Eccentric teenager Vivienne Freeman hitches a ride from a reluctant recluse, visiting Englishman Alex Hughes. Just when they reach her hometown of Wawa, Ontario, she is killed by a transport truck ramming their vehicle, while Alex only gets a nosebleed. Everybody confirms that this was not Alex's fault. Alex visits Vivienne's mother, Linda, to deliver some gifts Vivienne had bought her and to provide support. She has been informed about her daughter's death a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men With Brooms
''Men with Brooms'' is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centred on the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited curling team from a small Canadian town as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the championship for the sake of their late coach. The cast also includes Connor Price, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Outerbridge, Kari Matchett, Molly Parker and Polly Shannon. Members of the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip make a cameo appearance in the film as a competing rink representing Kingston, Ontario, the band's home city. Winnipeg curler and three-time Brier champion Jeff Stoughton also made a cameo appearance throwing his trademark "spin-o-rama" shot. A television adaptation, also titled '' Men with Brooms'' debuted October 4, 2010 on CBC Television for the 2010-11 television season. Plot The movie begins with Donald Foley retrieving curling stones from a lake near Long Bay, Ontario. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrill Seekers (film)
''Thrill Seekers'' (also known as ''The Time Shifters'') is a 1999 science fiction television film directed by Mario Azzopardi and starring Casper Van Dien, Catherine Bell, Julian Richings and Martin Sheen. The film aired on October 17, 1999 on TBS. The film was shot in 1999 from May to June in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Plot Tom Merrick (Van Dien) is a TV reporter filming a live segment on a fire at a power plant. He spots a creepy-looking man (Richings), causing him to move away from his crew. This accidentally saves his life as the crew is killed in the partial collapse of a building. After the accident, Merrick gives up his job as a reporter and begins working for a magazine. In June 2000, while researching catastrophes, Merrick finds several pictures of the man from the power plant, who appears to turn up in different disasters ( sinking of ''Titanic'', Hindenburg disaster and Hurricane Hugo), but who still looks the same in all the pictures. Merrick's bos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Of The Food Chain
''Top of the Food Chain'' is a 1999 Canadian comedy-horror film directed by John Paizs and starring Campbell Scott, Fiona Loewi, and Tom Everett Scott. A parody of alien invasion movies of the 1950s, it was released on video in the United States under the title ''Invasion!'' The film revolves around a vacationing atomic scientist who encounters mysterious carnivorous beings disguised as traveling salesmen "Traveling Salesmen" is the thirteenth episode of the third season of the American version of ''The Office'', and the show's 41st overall. The episode was written by Michael Schur, Lee Eisenberg, and Gene Stupnitsky, and was directed by series ... who are feeding on the eccentric population of the small isolated town of Exceptional Vista. References External links * * 1999 films English-language Canadian films Canadian science fiction comedy films 1990s parody films 1990s science fiction comedy films 1990s science fiction horror films 1990s comedy horror films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Five Senses (film)
''The Five Senses'' is a 1999 Canadian drama film directed, written and produced by Jeremy Podeswa.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 78. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight program at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, and had its Canadian premiere at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot ''The Five Senses'' is about interconnected stories linked by a building which examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by Ruth Seraph, a massage therapist who is treating Anna Miller. Ruth's daughter Rachel accidentally loses Anna's pre-school daughter, Amy Lee, in the park, when Rachel is distracted by the sight of a couple making love in the woods. Rachel meets a voyeur named Rupert (vision), and they become friends as fellow outsiders while he teaches her the pleasure of observing others. They eventually go to one of Rachel's hiding places, where she has him dress like a woman. Meanwhile, Ruth tries to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Ponds Freeze Over
''When Ponds Freeze Over'' is a Canadian short film, directed by Mary Lewis and released in 1998."Ice tale will melt hearts". ''Montreal Gazette'', September 6, 1998. Mixing live action with animation, the film stars Lewis herself as Mary, a woman recounting to her daughter Eva (Eva Crocker) the childhood story of when Mary and her father (James Allodi) fell through the ice on a frozen pond. The animated segments were created by Lewis, Peter Evans, Shelley Cornick and Lisa Moore. Accolades The film won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, and the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 19th Genie Awards."Genie Award Winners". ''Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Whiskey Bar
''American Whiskey Bar'' is a Canadian television film, which was broadcast by Citytv in 1998. The film was directed by Bruce McDonald as an adaptation of the novel by Michael Turner. The novel is an experimental metafiction which mixes the screenplay for an imaginary film with the commentary of a film director, a film critic and a fictionalized version of Turner himself around the difficulties of getting it produced as a film; the screenplay portions depict the random interactions and conversations of various patrons in a bar, including a group of garbagemen who want to produce a film, a group of secretaries discussing their sex lives, and a gay couple. For the film, McDonald presented it as a "pirate" production of the screenplay in support of the fictional Turner's campaign to publicize it.Tony Atherton, "Live teleplay prompts plenty of directorial jitters". ''Ottawa Citizen'', September 17, 1998. The cast included James Allodi, Kelly Harms, Leila Johnson, Daniel Kash, Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elimination Dance
''Elimination Dance'' is a 1998 Canadian short drama film. Directed by Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar and Michael Ondaatje based on Ondaatje's poem of the same name, the film stars McKellar and Tracy Wright as a couple in a jazz dance competition, in which various couples are eliminated as the announcer ( Michael Turner) calls out various elimination criteria drawn from Ondaatje's poem. Other people appearing in the film as non-speaking dancers include Meryn Cadell, Carole Pope, Laura Bertram, Valerie Buhagiar, Chas Lawther, Anna Stratton, Duke Redbird, Ryan Black, Esta Spalding, Leah Cherniak, James Allodi and Clement Virgo. The film premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 19th Genie Awards in 1999. '' |
Chronicles Of The Paranormal
Chronicles may refer to: * ''Books of Chronicles'', in the Bible * Chronicle, chronological histories * ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', a novel series by C. S. Lewis * ''Holinshed's Chronicles'', the collected works of Raphael Holinshed * ''The Idhun Chronicles'', a Netflix anime-style series based on the ''Idhún's Memories'' book trilogy by Laura Gallego * ''Book of Chronicles'', an alternate name for the ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' of 1493 * '' Chronicles: Volume One'', Bob Dylan's autobiography * ''Chronicles'' (magazine), a conservative magazine from the Rockford Institute * ''Chronicles'' (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion set of the ''Magic: The Gathering'' trading card game * Froissart's ''Chronicles'', a prose history of the Hundred Years' War written in the 14th century by Jean Froissart * '' Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles'', an upcoming Netflix CGI-animated series loosely based on the ''Usagi Yojimbo'' comics by Stan Sakai Albums * ''Chronicles'' (Audiomachine alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Continues
''The Legend Continues'' may refer: *'' Anchorman: The Legend Continues'' *'' Dragonworld: The Legend Continues'', a 1999 Adventure fantasy film. It is a Direct-to-video sequel to the original 1994 film, Dragonworld. The film was actually originally filmed in 1996, but did not see a release until 1999 *'' Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'', a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series ''Kung Fu'' * ''The Legend Continues'' (album) {{DEFAULTSORT:Legend Continues, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
