Hello, my name's Justin the Cluehr. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to the Important Cinema Club. And today, we're being even more self-indulgent

than usual, because we're talking about our home, Toronto Canada.

That's right. For this week's episode, all we did was stare out our windows.

Yep. Looking at the Cien Tower out in the distance, the only tall thing in this Canadian wasteland.

We watched the movie we call Life. That's right. We went out into the streets, made notes.

Yep. We did the director hand thing, you know, the thing that Ron Howard does on his masterclass ad.

So Toronto is a place where me and will live.

But what else is it?

How do movies portray it?

Well, Toronto is not often portrayed in movies, and yet it is often in movies.

Toronto is often referred to here, not by anybody I know, but by people in government

and the film industry, as Hollywood North.

I've never heard any person say that non-ironically, but yes, it's true. People in the

biz do say that.

It is a place that has had tax credits.

Yeah.

And so many American productions will come up here and use it, use its vaguely city-looking

streets as facsimiles for, I don't know, New York, Chicago.

And look, we're a great city for that.

We have our own shitty Times Square. We have our shitty Wall Street.

We have our shitty Central Park. We've got everything you need.

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