• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, March 24, 2015

My favorite action movie cliche is definitely the group fight scene when the villains fight the hero one at a time rather than all at once. Additional cliches are highlighted in a two-minute cinema ad for the 2015 Canadian Film Fest. The video takes place inside the fictitious "Academy of the Cliche," a school that specializes in teaching actors typical techniques, like a villain's ability to have horrendous aim when shooting at a hero or a couple that splits up when running from a horror movie killer. At the end of the video, viewers are encouraged to "Escape the Cliche" by attending the 2015 Canadian Film Fest, running from March 25 to 28 at Toronto's Royal Theatre. See the video here, created by J. Walter Thompson Canada, produced by OPC, and directed by Jono Hunter.