Toothpaste and Cigars - A+
A pitch-perfect comedy written by TJ Dawe (Tracks) and Michael Rinaldi (who also stars), Toothpaste and Cigars is When Harry Met Sally for the hipster set. Rinaldi and Tallulah Winkelman play a couple who meet cute over a set of magnetic poetry at a party and strike up a platonic relationship – with plenty of doe-eyed longing on Rinaldi’s side. The pop-culture-obsessed writing is smart – every line rings true, every e-mail is one you’ve written yourself – the leads are natural and utterly charming, and the plot percolates along, bubbling merrily over the unspoken longing that underscores every other line. Seldom is unrequited love so fully satisfying.
Jill Wilson
Uptown Magazine, Winnipeg.
