Thursday, July 31st 2025

It's All Gone Pete Tong

With its perfect blend of raucous comedy, heartfelt drama, and pulse-pounding club beats, IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG is possibly the finest film ever made about DJ music and culture. Superstar DJ Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) is riding high (on both success and cocaine) and leading a decadent lifestyle of superficial pleasure when fate intervenes in the form of acute hearing loss. Devastated, the newly deaf Wilde is summarily abandoned by virtually everyone he knows and forced to seek out new purpose and meaning in his life. What follows is both hilarious — confronting a cocaine “badger” — and touching —reconnecting with music despite his deafness. Canadian Michael Dowse directs with great style and wit, deftly balancing zany humour with honest sentiment. IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG remains a hidden gem of Canadian cinema.