Movies
Monster
Monster – Screening on January 26, 30, February 1! Advance tickets now available for Monster! A mother demands answers from teacher when her son begins acting strangely. Japanese with English subtitles. Cannes Film Festival: Queer Palm, Best Screenplay award winner, Palme d’Or nominee! Stockholm Film Festival: Best Film
Monsieur Lazhar
2011 GENIE & JUTRA WINNER, BEST FILM AND BEST DIRECTOR When an Algerian immigrant takes over a Montréal elementary school class following the former teachers suicide, there are lessons to be learned all around in this transcendent film [that forms] a tapestry of fraught relationships, weaving issues of parental authority,
Monolith
Ottawa Premiere on January 26th! A mother and her son plan a surprise visit to Los Angeles to see her husband/his father. Halfway there they get into a terrible accident in the middle of nowhere and now must fight to survive.
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 |
Monkey Kingdom
Mark Linfield’s nature documentary Monkey Kingdom follows the struggles of a young monkey mother to care for and raise her new baby in the wilds of Southern Asia. Narrated by Tina Fey.
Monkey Business
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Moneyball
This true story of how the Oakland As used stats and algorithms to build a winning team on a bargain-bin budget as told by director Miller (Capote) and writers Sorkin (The Social Network) and Zaillian (Schindlers List) is, to use the only baseball metaphor I know, a home
Money Monster
Lee Gates is a Wall Street guru who picks hot stocks as host of the television show “Money Monster.” Suddenly, during a live broadcast, disgruntled investor Kyle Budwell storms onto the set and takes Gates hostage. He tells Lee that he lost everything on one of his tips. As Gates
Mondocane
Mondocane – Ottawa Premiere the Week of June 3! Advance tickets now available for Mondocane! Taranto is a ghost town that no one dares to enter. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs are competing for territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans, who grew up together, dream of joining
Mommy
Xavier Dolans Mommy is defiantly a movie for the here and now, something so immediate, its very form resembles Instagram photos or smartphone videos. This fifth (and best) feature by the 25-year-old Quebec auteur demonstrates a mastery of the lens that would be remarkable at any age. Dolan and cinematographer André Turpin place each