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[Note: This poll is a re-do of an older poll, as the original poll for it received less than 2,000 votes.]

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Cairo Time (2009) | dir. Ruba Nadda

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And Then You Die (1987) [film]

Tom McCamus plays a supporting role

I didn’t find this film the easiest to follow, because the version I found had the strangest dubbing method I’ve ever come across, one guy reading all the lines in Russian slightly behind the English audio.

But it’s one of the only movies Tom McCamus is in that I haven’t seen, so I persevered. And it turns out he isn’t even in many scenes. According to Letterboxd I have now seen 95% of Tom’s filmography (or 71% if you go off IMDb). A few years ago I thought I’d seen everything of his that I would be able to, so who knows, one day I might reach 100%.

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Heart Songs (1992) [short]

Tom McCamus plays the main character

Tom McCamus plays a guy driving around looking for work. He picks up some hitchhikers and takes them to a barn dance, which he decides to check out and falls in love with the singer in a band. He goes to find her afterwards, she seems indifferent towards his advances and he mistakes her husband for her father. 

There’s not really much to say about the story, but it’s at just under 12 minutes it’s not a bad watch. It’s nicely shot, and the music that’s at the heart of this is pretty good. And we get to hear Tom (who can actually sing) singing badly at the beginning. 

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Fanwork Friday: The Love of a Woman

For Fanwork Friday we're reading The Love of a Woman.

The Love of a Woman was a multifandom zine that ran for two issues in 2003 and 2004. From Mutant X to Law & Order: SVU to Stargate SG-1, it showcases some of the femslash fandoms and ships that were popular in the early 2000s.

Do you have this zine sitting on shelf somewhere? We'd love your help in expanding its Fanlore page!

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I Know my Son is Alive (1994) [film]

Tom plays a minor role

(Spoilers)

I was expecting the most depressing Canadian film I’ve ever seen, but then it opens on the gayest decorating scene I’ve ever seen. The acting and dialogue are overdramatic and unsubtle, so I guess it’ll be easy to follow along with while only half watching.

As it turns out, it is pretty depressing. Katherine is struggling with her new baby and everyone seems to be openly or covertly hostile towards her. A number of insane things happen including her husband smashing a car window to get the baby out moments before she arrives with the keys.

Utterly bizarre choice in a movie about a disappearance for the actual disappearance not to happen until half way through!

Tom McCamus plays Amanda’s nanny’s boyfriend, who seem to have a rocky relationship. He also seems to be asking Katherine’s doctor husband for drugs. He plays a wonderfully creepy character here. And I think this is at least the third time I’ve seen him die by being pushed off a ledge.

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Mary Silliman’s War (1994) [film]

Historical Tom plays a supporting role

I’ll be the first to admit my knowledge of and interest in the American civil war are both pretty low. Although I have to appreciate the costumes and sets.

Mary Silliman puts up a fight to save her husband who has been arrested, and while a newcomer tries to bring members of her household to the other side, her husband is offered a chance to switch sides too.

Tom McCamus plays the Reverend Elliot. He makes a good priest, and it’s fun to see him get to deliver sermons and advise Mary.

I must admire Mary’s courage in trying to reason with the invading British forces, but telling them they’re too generous and polite to do this shouldn’t be funny but kind of is. I’m aware of what happens during war, but I was absolutely not expecting a surprisingly graphic scene of assault and rape to be in a film like this.

The ending seemed a little underwhelming, although Mary got her husband back and it was a happy ending for most. But not Peter, her slave, who she was shown to be kind to, but wouldn’t let him have his freedom.

A few people in the reviews mentioned having to watch this movie in history class, and yeah, it seems like one of the movies I had to sit through in half hour chunks over what seemed like endless numbers of weeks.

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Guilty as Sin (1993) [film]

Tom plays a minor role

From the blurb and the poster this movie sounds like “lawyer starts a relationship with an asshole client” and I’m just gonna be here waiting for something interesting to happen.

Tom McCamus plays Ray Schiff, a prosecution lawyer. He’s played lawyers on many occasions and he’s pretty good at it. However he appears only in the opening scene and does not take part in the main trial, which I must confess plays a part in my lack of interest in this movie.

Main character Jennifer is dedicated to her profession as a defence lawyer and is a successful career woman but she clearly has bad luck with men. She has a boyfriend who doesn’t respect her career and tells her what to do.

David, accused of killing his wife, is every bit the asshole the blurb promised. He’s clearly a misogynist but acts like he’s the victim. I’d hazard a guess that this might be an attempt to depict “the patriarchy hurts everyone” but I’m not sure we’d got to that point in the 90s. I find it hard to get invested in this movie because the misogyny is at the forefront and there’s not really much to distract from it. I’m utterly depressed before I even reach the middle of the movie. I don’t care what happens to David, and I don’t see a way for Jennifer to have a happy life in this world.

The plot of this movie drags. If Jennifer had started plotting to frame David for her own attempted murder much sooner I might have been interested, but an hour in I’m just waiting for this movie to end.

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Black Widow 2005 [film]

Musical/noir

Tom plays a supporting role

Poor man Johnny (Martin Tielli) becomes obsessed with Eve (Sarah Slean), a singer in an exclusive club. They meet and get married soon after, but Eve seems uninterested in him, unbeknownst to him she’s pregnant and assumably just wants a husband.

I like how hilariously on the nose this movie is. If the opening with Johnny’s head in a furnace wasn’t enough foreshadowing enough, Eve reads a magazine called Inside Detective with a cover story “how to dismember a body”. And “all I was getting from her was the cold shoulder” Eve and her mother open newspapers in front of their faces.

I like how this movie is shot like a classic black and white picture from the 40s. It’s clearly low budget, to the point that the wedding scene includes exactly one guest. But it’s charming.

Eve has her baby but it’s stillborn, or so they say. Johnny discovers their secret and starts drinking. The scenes of him stumbling around drunk and reeling from his discovery are artfully done.

I thought this story seemed familiar, but I put it down to it being full of classic tropes, but thanks to someone on IMDb I now know it’s based on the Hamilton torso murders of 1945 (which Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story, also starring Tom McCamus is based on too). This movie was filmed in Hamilton, Ontario too!

Johnny is found dead, or his torso is found at least. Tom plays a detective who investigates, and goes to question Eve, things quickly become unprofessional and it’s hard to say who’s manipulating whom more. Lovely to see Tom sing and dance too.

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Stratford Festival sure aren’t disappointing with their promo photos this season!

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Lucy Peacock and Tom McCamus in Macbeth

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Hi I am curious what video games do you play

By the the way I have been reading your cobra kai stories

The elder scrolls series and detective games are my favourites!

That's cool, i did not expect there to be any crossover between the mutant x and cobra kai fandoms (apart from me)

I have a fandom blog with the same username as my ao3, so if you wish to talk about things unrelated to Tom or mutant x we can do so over there!

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Wider shot of that picture from Macbeth.