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This is a movie about a taxi/limo driver, played by Jackie Chan, who wears a magic suit that makes him do kung fu shit, and he fights evil criminals with help from a scientist or secret agent or something played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Yeah, this is precisely the sort of movie that usually gets shot here.

We got all fired up last week when we started working on Four Brothers and found Mark Wahlberg is the king of Toronto action films. We figured we'd try to dig up a couple more in celebration of what we've dubbed "Marky Mark Movie Month." It didn't take us long to find the New York–set, recently-released Max Payne was a natural choice for where to go next.

As a film location, Toronto's bread and butter can easily be summed up: generic thrillers and TV movies. Heartwarming tales of the human spirit (like Good Will Hunting), or true-blue blockbusters (like The Incredible Hulk) are merely exceptions that prove the rule.

SPORTS: If you're wandering around the Financial District tonight, don't be too shocked when you see hundreds of people running around erratically. It's got nothing to do with the economic crisis; it's Newmindspace's Capture the Flag, back for its sixth episode, where the only crisis participants face is determining the whereabouts of their opponents' flag. Full details, the official map, and rules are available here. King Street and Bay Street (on the southwest corner), 9 p.m., FREE.

For some men, a suit feels like an unnatural and constricting male uniform; a way of burying individuality in the conventional business attire of dark suit, white shirt, and tie. There are certainly a fair share of businessmen, bankers and lawyers wandering through the PATH corridors beneath the Financial District who carry themselves in exactly this fashion. For those attuned to the subtle details of masculine appearance, however, the suit offers a perfect canvas for the conspicuous display of their personality and taste. The distinctions between the two may seem slight, but for the individiual responding to the homogenization of life—that the exact same ready-to-wear designer suit is available in Toronto, Dubai or Barcelona—a bespoke suit is the ultimate means of self-expression.

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve.

For the next four months, twenty of Toronto's garbage bins throughout the Financial District will be given a reprieve from displaying ads to instead serve as big, beautiful, magenta frames for some rather lovely photography.

Blaring horns, bicycle bells, glowing necklaces, screeching tires, and hundreds of Torontonians sprinting through the Financial District yelling, "Incoming!" These are the sights and sounds one can expect from Newmindspace's latest installation of everybody's favourite childhood game, Capture the Flag. The game has been liberated from its grassy prison and placed squarely in the "business ghetto" grid. Participants will use five subway stations, two streetcar lines, a bus, the PATH network, bicycles, longboards, scooters...