Movies
Shark is Still Working, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE There’s an old Hollywood adage: the more fun a movie was to make, the worse it will be. Keep that in mind while watching this doc about the endless stress and hardship that was the making of Jaws. (See it with Jaws June 5!)
Savage Beach
The Mayfair is now Ottawas official home of Andy Sidaris, offering a new film from the accidental love child of Russ Meyer and Ed Wood every month in 2010! This month, join the ladies from L.E.T.H.A.L. on a hunt for Japanese gold that begins on Savage Beach!
Thank You Girls, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE A group of drag queens and their entourage journeys from one small-town beauty pageant to the next in this glam-tastic outing thats being called the next Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! In Visayan and Tagalog with English subtitles $12 | Advance tickets at eventbrite.com | Producer James
At Home by Myself with You
OTTAWA PREMIERE Romy hasnt left her apartment in six years. Why? Because shes afraid. Of storms. Boxes. Kissing. And lobsters. So when a handsome new neighbour disrupts her life, its a classic story of girl-meets-boy-girl-falls-for-boy-girl-cant-leave-her-apartment. Or can she?
1941
Charlton Heston and John Wayne begged Spielberg not to make this unpatriotic WWII comedy. Although it was trashed by American critics, this star-studded romp was highly regarded outside the US, and is highly recommend by us!
PROGRAM CHANGE: Peacock King
Our screening of A Kid From Tibet has been unavoidably delayed. In its place, the Drunken Masters Dojo presents Yuen Biao in a kung fu fantasy directed by the man responsible for The Story of Ricky. (Remember that film? Or are you still trying to forget?) Biao plays a Tibetan monk
Popeye
You know what I like about this movie? It is what it is. 0
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The
GEEK NIGHT Buckaroo Banzai: physicist. Neurosurgeon. Samurai. Rock star. Comic-book hero. Leader of the Hong Kong Cavaliers. Driver of the dimension-hopping Jet Car. And the worlds only hope against the evil Red Lectroids of Planet 10. If you haven’t seen this, it’s the coolest thing you’ve never seen.
Shock Waves
1977: Peter Cushing appears in Star Wars and what we consider the greatest non-Romero American zombie film ever. When shipwrecked yacht-mates wash up on an island run by a former SS commander, they predictably end up food for Nazi zombies.
Secret of Kells, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE OSCAR NOMINEE BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Young Brendan lives an isolated life in the Abbey of Kells until a man arrives with an ancient book, brimming with mysterious power, that leads him on a dangerous quest into an enchanted forest. With its jewel-bright colors and intricate use