Movies
Monkey Warfare
Don McKellar stars in this tale of the counter-culture (or what remains of it), which won a Special Jury Prize at TIFF 2006. Accompanied by a special screening of the slice-of-life short Work, Bike, Eat (1971), with co-director Keith Lock in attendance! CANADIAN CULT REVIEW DOUBLE BILL with Waydowntown |
Parenthood
In 1985 (during the filming of Gung Ho), Ron Howards four-year-old daughter vomited on him. Most people would clean up and carry on, but he took it as a sign that he should do a film about the comic, heroic, and life-changing business of being a parent. So he did.
Prodigal Sons
OTTAWA PREMIERE When documentarian Kimberly Reed returns home following her gender-reassignment surgery, her transgender revelation is overshadowed by her adopted brothers discovery that hes the grandchild of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. Truth: still stranger than fiction after all these years.
Shutter Island
EXTRA SHOW ADDED MAY 28! We round out our month-long Scorsese-fest with his latest, a Val Lewton-esque thriller about a mans inward-spiralling search for a missing patient at a hospital for the criminally insane. Count the movie references and drink in Robbie Robertsons crazy-quilt score.
Sixty Million Dollar Man
The Drunken Masters Dojo mixes some slapstick into the chopsocky as Wong Jing (City Hunter) directs Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) as a rich jerk who gets blown up, then rebuilt as bionic man with the ability to transform into household appliances. What?
Spring Break
Director Cunningham pioneered the art of slashing teens in Friday the 13th, but he treats them slightly better in this accurately-titled flick that Roger Ebert described as a a sex-and-sand epic about the annual mating rituals in Fort Lauderdale.
Prophet, A
Grand Jury Prize, Cannes 2009 | OSCAR NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Did the Cannes jury and the Academy get it right? Why not see this tough, absorbingly intricate account of a young French-Arab thug’s improbable education behind bars (Variety) and decide for yourself?
Chloe
The plot of Chloe follows a doctor (Julianne Moore) who hires an escort (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce her husband (Liam Neeson), whom she suspects of cheating. But this is an Egoyan film, so the plot is only a fraction of Chloes story. Or is that stories?
M*A*S*H
Attention: Tonight’s movie will be M*A*S*H. Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines, operating as bombs and bullets burst around them, snatching laughs and love between amputations and penicillin. That is all. 0
Locked Away
A manipulative counsellor lures a pregnant high school senior into a dangerous trap in order to try to steal her baby. Will she escape? And will she learn to use condoms in the future? Find out!0