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May 27 – June 2!
-The Rose Maker- 2nd Week! Annapolis Film Fest: Audience Award/Best Feature Film award winner! “Very, very charming.” (Film Week – NPR LA) “poetic & insightful…a warm, funny & heartfelt delight.” (NYC Movie Guru) -Petite Maman- 2nd Week! San Sebastián International Film Fest: Audience Award winner! 97% Certified
Maximum terror–Maximum KING!
Stephen King’s 1986 directorial debut MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE comes to the Mayfair in a great and rare 35mm presentation, on Friday March 18 at midnight. We got a very cool poster designed for us courtesy of a website called skuzzles.com They’re posters in the same design as the ones
MAURICE SENDAK! I'M WITH YOU IN ROCKLAND
(This piece originally appeared on The Cultural Gutter. You can see it in its original form there, along with many other musings on film, comics, science fiction, fantasy and romance. Ch-check it.) (Also, spoilers ahead. There, you’ve been warned.) Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s
Marquee Hibernation!
It’s that time of year, with winter hitting soon, that the marquee goes into hibernation. Don’t fret, showtimes are on the website, you can subscribe to our weekly e-mail newsletter, listen to our podcast, call us, get a paper copy of showtimes from the cinema, look at posters as
Man, there sure are a lot of Shining posters on the internets
The Shining plays at the Mayfair Oct 10 at 8:45 Oct. 25 at 9:20 PM. But on the internets, a lot of people have been playing with iconic images from the film, turning them into unofficial posters. I found dozens when I went looking,
Make room for The Room bobbleheads!
We stay in close touch with Tommy Wiseau, the, um, creative force behind The Room. Since we started our regular Participaction screenings of the film several months ago, audiences have grown and grown. Inexplicably, Ottawa wants more The Room! So, when Tommy offered us a couple
Magic Odd Couple
I’m afraid that I can’t really tell you all that much about ‘Is Anybody There?’. I haven’t seen any of the previous work of the writer or director, haven’t even watched the trailer yet. I know from the synopsis from the Mayfair schedule and from IMDb that it’s an
Maestro At The Movies – Rocky!
Rocky – Sunday August 20th! Doors at noon, 12:30pm screening Mighty Maestro Fitness presents the first Maestro At The Movies! Support local athletes with the rare chance to watch the Oscar winning classic on the big screen! Come dressed as your favourite Rocky OR Stallone character! Take part
Louder And Nastier Than Ever
In 1977, the comic book magazine Heavy Metal was released in North America, introducing a new audience to Europe’s most amazing batch of artists and writers. It didn’t take long for the film industry to take notice, and the next year, the animated anthology film went into pre-production.
Lord of the Rings: Extended!
Our print of The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring arrived yesterday, and surprise, surprise, it’s the special extended edition! We’d expected the regular theatrical version – that’s what we were told was available – but we got this instead. Not that we’re complaining! It just