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Not your average Friday night

Thinking about seeing a movie tonight? I guess you could see the CG thing about the birds or the Scream fourquel. But wouldn’t you rather try something a little different?

Why not drop into the Toronto Underground Cinema at 7 pm for the latest instalment of the Defending The Indefensible series? You know, the one where local critics stand up to champion a film they deem to have been overlooked or misunderstood on its initial run while another critic gets to play prosecutor and remind the audience of its flaws.

I’ve had the pleasure of participating in previous editions, but tonight I’ll just be a spectator as Peter Kuplowsky – a programmer for the Toronto After Dark Festival, and the Underground’s animation curator – does his best to convince the assembled doubters that The Wachowski Brothers’s day-glo freakout Speed Racer is actually great cinema, and not a hideously self-indulgent Day-Glo nightmare. Metro’s Adam Nayman will act as prosecutor.

If an evening dedicated to Speed Racer seems a little too … juvenile, there’s always the Sixth Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards ceremony at 9 pm the Berkeley Heritage Events Venue. With Charlie Sheen in town, an event dedicated to the celebration of “ethical, feminist smut” seems like the karmically preferable thing to do.

And should you take the subway to either one of these events, make sure to look up at the monitors. The second annual Everyday Heroes Festival starts today, screening silent one-minute shorts dedicated to themes of “Activism, Conservation, Education [and] Great Ideas” every ten minutes on the TTC’s OneStop screens.

Don’t worry about missing your train to watch more shorts the festival runs through April 24th, so you can catch them all at your leisure. You can also find the official selections on the festival’s website, if you don’t take the subway that often.

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