Movies
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (dogs welcome!)
PARTICIPACTION BARK-ALONG SCREENING BRING YOUR DOG! The Alvin movies have made how much?! A combined $765 million?! Seriously?! Its a good thing were inviting dogs to this screening they might be the only ones who havent seen it! Fundraiser for Birch Haven Rescue and Rehabilitation Services
Brett Kelly’s Iron Soldier
OTTAWA PREMIERE When terrorists steal the titular unstoppable military robot (the Iron Soldier, not Brett Kelly), it’s a race against time to stop them from using it against mankind! Starring Joe Estevez (brother of Martin Sheen, uncle of Charlie and Emilio)! Director Brett Kelly in attendance!
Strange Brew
This hoser-ific adaptation of Hamlet has never received the critical or commercial attention it deserves, so come out and show it some love, eh? CANADIAN CULT REVIEW CANADA DAY EVE HOSER TRIPLE BILL with Goin Down the Road and Fubar | triple bill tickets $10 | Learn more at
Carmen, Baby
This month, Saturday Night Sinema puts its finger on the racing pulse of the counter-culture with an ultra-rare treat. Master of Eurotic cinema Metzger suggests more than he shows in his hep-cat update of Bizets opera, but rest assured: this is one sassy, seductive flick.
Code of Silence
Pound for pound, this is the best Chuck Norris film of the 80s. Why? Because of director Andrew Davis, who would go on to helm Under Siege and The Fugitive! Norris plays tough-as-nails cop Eddie Cusack, who’s caught in the middle of a gang war, and ready to roundhouse-kick his
Danse Le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, La
OTTAWA PREMIERE Master documentarian Wiseman (Titicut Follies) tracks seven Paris Opera Ballet productions simultaneously in this on-point doc that pirouettes around issues of commerce and art and jetés between moments mundane and profound to produce something astoundingly beautiful. (San Francisco Chronicle) English subtitles
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
OTTAWA PREMIERE Watch out, Tommy Wiseau! The newly-anointed best worst movie finally wings its way to the Mayfair to claw at the eyes of Ottawa audiences. If this is a joke, its the Kennedy assassination of jokes. (Vice Magazine)
Brooklyn’s Finest
Fuqua (Training Day) directs this interconnected police-procedural triptych like Robert Altman with a nightstick, and ensnares a first-rate cast [Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes and others] in a dramatic dragnet for a fugitive moral lesson. (Variety)
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
For a public figure, Glenn Gould was an intensely interior person, but Genius Within digs deep, interviewing members of Gould’s intimate circle and unearthing rare footage of the man at work and play [making this] the most complete portrait yet of this complex artist. (Toronto Star) 0
Please Give
The New Yorker called director Holofcener the true heir apparent to Woody Allen, and Roger Ebert says she pays close attention to women. She doesn’t define them by their relationships with men; they actually have their own reasons for doing things. Do yourself a favour. Please see this. 0