Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monsters Ball) directs Gerard Butler in the based-on-a-true-story of Sam Childers, a biker-gang member and drug dealer who found grace under (gun)fire when he moved to Sudan to protect orphans threatened by the countrys civil war.
extreme asia When Japanese schoolgirl Ami loses an arm in a fight with local mobsters, she naturally enough has it replaced with an eight-barrel machine gun and goes out for vengeance (which involves fire hoses of blood, a drill bra and human sushi). So, yeah, not for everyone. Japanese with
OTTAWA PREMIERE Karate-kickin’ midgets! Paper-mâché monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the ’70s and ’80s had it all and director Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) puts it all on display in this doc about a faraway backlot where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and even the
Ex-federale Machete Cortez (Danny Trejo) does exactly what the title promises as he pursues an arms dealer (Mel Gibson) bent on starting World War III.
One of Grindhouses fake trailers gets real and gives the great Danny Trejo his first starring role as an ex-Federale with a big knife fetish who launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss. Esta bien.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. Starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard
M3GAN – Screening on March 20, 21, 23! Advance tickets now available for M3GAN! A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll’s programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of
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
Tickets are $35 and available at the theatre box office.
Lynch/Oz – Ottawa Premiere screenings on June 26, 27, 28! Advance tickets now available for Lynch/Oz! Victor Fleming’s film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work. From Hot Docs award