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Who Does She Think She Is? two nights only!
Five women and the delicate art of balance Documentary sheds light on women juggling art and motherhood By Jay Stone, The Ottawa CitizenMarch 7, 2009 = 460) { imgBox.className = ‘imagesize460’; } else { if(photo.width >= 300) { imgBox.className =
Will THEY LIVE on October 21st!?
Often prints for genre fan-favourites are simply and sadly too expensive to bring in due to small turn outs for cult classics. Solution? Advance tickets! When the box-office opens tonight we’ll have tickets available for John Carpenter’s alien invasion 80’s masterpiece, They Live. For a mere $10 bucks
Win a copy of The Eight Mountains novel!
Thanks to Simon & Schuster Canada and Films We Like, we have a copy of the book to give away to a lucky audience member. Join us at our first screening of The Eight Mountains on Friday May 26 at 6:30 PM, for your chance to win!
Winds of Heaven "one of the most important films ever made about British Columbia.”
Or that’s what the director of the Vancouver International Film Festival thinks, anyway Why not see for yourself on Oct. 27 & 28 when this Ottawa-made biography of Emily Carr premieres at the Mayfair?
With one switch. Everything Changes.
There will be an extra educational bonus at the Friday night screening of Particle Fever. Carleton University physics professor Heather E. Logan will be on hand to give an introduction to the film, and we should have time for a quick couple of q&a questions afterwards. Join us
You should(n't) have gone before we left!
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But when you’re watching a movie, how do you time your bathroom break so you don’t miss anything good? That’s the question the people behind RunPee.com set out to answer, and answer it they did, with a website (and now an
You'll come to PIECES!
This Tuesday, the Mayfair proudly presents two films that are apart of a classic horror tradition: the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and it’s comedic sequel. But there is cinematic proof that you don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre! The 1983 grindhouse shocker Pieces will
Zen Pulp
In August (7-9, 12&13 to be exact), the Mayfair is screening Michael Mann’s latest, Public Enemies. Which makes this the perfect time to take a look at Matt Zoller Seitz‘s excellent five-part video essay, Zen Pulp. It explores Mann’s concerns, themes and aesthetic, and you can view all
Zomkeys attack Mayfair!
Mirror Comics unleashes their latest title as Zomkeys invades The Comic Book Shoppe on Saturday October 26th. In the aftermath of that, Zomkeys will battle a murderous super-intelligent orangutan from the movie Link on Sunday October 27th (doors at 8:00pm, movie starts at 8:30pm) at the Mayfair! Zomkeys