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The Middle Man – TIFF21

A small-town man gets a job to be the bearer of bad news in The Middle Man. Frank Farelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) enters the town hall of Karmack to be interviewed by The Commission of The Sherrif (Paul Gross), The Doctor (Don McKellar), and The Pastor (Nicolas Bro). The job Frank is interviewing for is…

Gunless

Gunless

Canadian films are always hit or miss since budget-wise they are unable to match the quality of films to come from the states.  There is also the slightly sad fact that the film only had about a dozen people in the theatre (most who arrived just before the film was going to start). Paul Gross…

Passchendaele

Passchendaele

Paul Gross was probably most well-known for the TV series Due South in the mid-1990s before he directed and stared in the curling comedy Men with Brooms in 2002. That film was known for a marketing campaign that attempted to have the film compete with the Hollywood films that dominated Canadian theatres. Passchendaele, Gross’ second…