Movies
BuyBust
Ottawa Premiere on August 24th! An anti-drug enforcement agency stages a massive drug bust in the slums of Manila. Filipino with English subtitles, and English. “Pulsating action and lacerating social commentary are the ingredients of an outstanding genre outing…a superbly executed action film…an explosive exercise in kinetic cinema…a must-see item
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Ottawa Premiere on August 22nd – Encore Screening on August 23rd! A documentary on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen (Black Caesar, God Told Me To, Q The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Phone Booth). Featuring J.J. Abrams, Rick Baker, Joe Dante, Robert Forster, Mick Garris,
Three Identical Strangers
The most amazing, incredible, remarkable true story ever told! New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds’ joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but it also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives –
Sarah MacDougall Meets the Ghost of Beethoven
Sarah MacDougall is a disenfranchised 12-year-old girl who is visited by the ghost of Beethoven because he can’t stand the way she is destroying his music at the piano. Both her mom and her music teacher have failed to raise her musical interest level. Meanwhile, her friends have been trying to lure her to the
Fireworks
Ottawa Premiere on August 4th! Also screening on August 5th and 6th! Schoolchildren Norimichi, Yûsuke and Jun’ichi want to know if fireworks look round or flat from the side. They make a plan to find the answer at a fireworks display, while Nazuna schemes to run away with Norimichi or
Reality Bites
Monday August 27th & Tuesday August 28th – Winona Ryder Film Festival throughout August! A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Gen X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston. Grade A! “sly and tenderly funny…Yearning, hilarious, lost within their precocious self-awareness, these slackers have soul”