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On with the show this is it! It's the Bugs Bunny Festival!
Here’s the listing of the 35mm collection of classic Looney Tunes the will be screening at the Bugs Bunny Festival in January There are a total of 26 cartoons, 13 in each set – part 1 screens January 1, 2 & 6 at 1:00pm…part 2 screens January
Mayfair Seat Immortalization!
As of this moment we’ve sold off an amazing 91 of 319 seats via our indiegogo campaign, to be immortalized with a patron’s name (or a business name…or Chewbacca’s name). The seat-claiming will indeed remain on sale after the fundraiser concludes on December 2nd. Monies raised from the ongoing seat
The Greatest Mustache Alive!
Upon realization that we were screening a Burt Reynolds movie in November, we thought that that would be a good opportunity to collect donations for the Movember cause. What better movie icon to rally around than the actor with one of the most famous mustaches of all time?
Indiegogo Campaign now online!
Our Indiegogo campaign to raise the remaining funds for our DCP projector is now online! In addition to donating a certain amount ($10, 20, 50, etc.) you can get some nice perks like upsize deals on concessions, the choice to select a
The Saw Is Family
Our countdown to Halloween continues… Leatherface takes claim on it’s poster that it is “The Most Controversial Horror Film Ever”. That’s quite a heady statement to make, especially in a world in which various cannibal grindhouse movies exist. They write this on their poster because the sequel was the final
Killer63 Returns for Year Seven!
Killer63 returns to the Mayfair right before Halloween, on Sunday October 28th. The one night only mini-film fest will again showcase short horror film offerings from local and international filmmakers. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the fest, or if you’re
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
Derby Baby!
Our friends in the Rideau Valley Roller Girls present the Ottawa premiere of the brand new documentary ‘Derby Baby: A Story of Love, Addiction and Rink Rash’ on Tuesday August 14th at 9:00pm. If you happen to know one of the RVRG ladies you can get
R.I.P. Sage Stallone
The movie industry has lost another talented contributor to motion picture conservation: Sage Stallone, eldest son of Sylvester, died today at the age of 36. Sage co-starred with his father in ROCKY V and DAYLIGHT. He left acting to pursue film distribution as he co-founded Grindhouse Releasing in
Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012)
Oscar winning actor Ernest Borgnine passed away today at the age of 95. The Mayfair salutes one of cinema’s warmest and most likable character actors, who had over 200 film and TV credits to his name. He even shot a film here in Ottawa back in 2000 called