Movies
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.
Soviet Story, The
Sure to excite controversy, this documentary sheds light on the real USSR, offering an alternative history of an Allied power that collaborated with the Nazis and slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Director Edvins Snore in attendance! Presented by the Free Thinking Film Society | $15 at the
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.
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?
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
Casino
June 25th and 26th – part of the Scorsese / De Niro Film Festival screening throughout June! A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast
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
JUST ADDED: Shuprovat Bangladesh
WORLD PREMIERE Bangladesh immigrant Faruq take a trip to Bangladsh the his daughter Poroma, who for the first time is visiting her Fathers native Land. During the visit, one day Poroma’s father alerts her to be careful going to unknown places. poroma shocked thinks, why should she be afraid of
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?