Category: Film news
May 30 – June 5!
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show- 50th Anniversary! Hosted by The Absent Friends Shadow Cast! -The Rules Of Attraction- 5 Stars! (Film Threat) 5 Stars! (Mountain XPress) -Saturday Night Sinema- Free for Members/Members Only! -Black Bag- 5 Stars! (Independent UK) 4/4 Stars! (Deep Focus Review) Ottawa Premieres! -A
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
Matfair Theatre Podcast 552: A Pleasant Distraction From Real Life.
Listen from your favourite podcatcher, including Soundcloud! This week, to kick off the Spooky Season, Eric and Josh are joined by comic book creator and Friend-of-Mayfair, Tom Fowler! They chat about: dogs, Ottawa sports, Garfield Minus Garfield, newspaper movie ads, Mega Force, Cool World, Rob Liefeld, Treasure of the
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
King of Kong update!
According to Gamepro.com, Steve Wiebe — the schoolteacher/arcade whiz profiled in the Donkey Kong documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (which showed at one of our Lost Marbles Geek Nights in August) — has recaptured the record from Billy Mitchell, the same man he dueled with
June 27th – July 3rd!
Woody Allen (in a rare actor only role) stars in Fading Gigolo alongside Sharon Stone for director John Turturro. The next generation of filmmaking Coppola adapts James Franco’s short story work to the big screen in Palo Alto. High school horrors in All Cheerleaders Die. Family friendly animated
July 4th – July 10th!
July 4th – 10th at the Mayfair! Cyber-Seniors, Tracks, Borgman, Blood Glacier, Rio 2, Fateful Findings and The Scarecrow Club!
July 29 – August 4!
-Peace By Chocolate- Naples International Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature award winner! 9/10 Stars! “Peace by Chocolate is a must-watch…Not one to miss” (Cultured Vultures) -Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song- “my favorite doc of the year” (The Weekend Warrior) “a great documentary” (Fantastica) “A rousing
John Waters: "Don we now are gay apparel"
There’s nothing like Christmas time with John Waters (director of Pink Flamingos, Hairspray) Roger Ebert has written an article about an upcoming Christmas show presented by the Pope of Trash himself. Check it out… John Waters: Don we now our gay apparel