Category: Film news
Fulci Halloween Aftermath!
We have many a fine Halloween offering for our scary movie fans in October – Nothing Left to Fear, Shaun of the Dead, Hell of the Living Dead, Link, You’re Next, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Killer63 short horror film fest, and even Monsters University
Ottawa Comiccon 2013!
The Ottawa Comiccon makes it’s grand return on May 10, 11 & 12! Last year we presented the Ottawa premiere of the Morgan Spurlock documentary Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope in association with the con. This year we take on a more horror themed turn with
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
NAC presents The Lord of the Rings in concert
Our friends at the NAC are offering a special promotion for Mayfair patrons. If you’d like to get advance tickets to their upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings concert (July 5, 6, 7), you can do so between now and April 11th via
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
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
Rare Exports is a rare import
According to the movie’s official website, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is set to premiere in New York on December 3, 2010. Only one other city in North America is premiering the film that day — and that city is Ottawa. We’re scooping Los Angeles, Toronto,
Tommy Wiseau's The Room gets a dubstep remix
Via The AV Club. If you think The Room is funny in film form, wait until you see it in dubstep music video remix form. The Room returns to the Mayfair November 20.
Mistah Curtis-he dead.
I recently watched Trapeze on TCM (really the only place on TV to watch movies – proper aspect ratio, no commercials or editing — but I digress.). I started watching for Burt Lancaster, but as it went on, I enjoyed Tony Curtis’ performance more and more. He was