Movies
Obvious Child
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS AUGUST 29 Not so many administrations ago, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Dirty Dancing” and a handful of other films dared to deal with abortion, off-camera and usually a little off the main plotline, as a medical option chosen by a sympathetic young woman dictated
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Its easy to take for granted the familiar pleasures of a good animated movie. But its useful to consider how something like How to Train Your Dragon 2 makes magic. Dragons breathe ice and fire that look equally minty. The flight here doesnt feel simulated; even in the plain-old 2-D version, the cliff dives
How To Train Your Dragon 2
DreamWorks Animation returns to the world of dragons and Vikings in this sequel to their successful 2010 outing How to Train Your Dragon. The original film followed the exploits of a Viking chief’s son, who must capture a dragon in order to mark his passage into manhood and prove his
OG 500 POETRY SLAM AND ART EXPO
HoPs signature poetry slam event, the OG500 is a head to head spoken word poetry slam that uses a three round, full audience judging system to determine a champ. 12 poets bring their best in a head-to-head competition for a $500 cash prize. Plus! Feature performance by spoken-word super-group The
Magic In The Moonlight
Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” stars Emma Stone as a psychic medium, Sophie Baker, and Colin Firth as a master magician who sets out to debunk her. Ms. Stone is entrancing, whether Sophie is in or out of her trance state, and so is the movie as a whole.
The Lego Movie
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Frank
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS SEPTEMBER 12 The droll wit and formal daring of Frank start with the casting. Michael Fassbender has been an X-Man, a gladiator (300), a sex addict (Shame) and an Oscar nominee (12 Years a Slave). Also a hottie, whose posters get drooled over on dorm walls. So why
The Forgotten Kingdom
Help Lesotho (www.helplesotho.org), an Ottawa-based charity, presents The Forgotten Kingdom, an award-winning film by Andrew Mudge that tells the story of a young man reluctantly embarking on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho (southern Africa) to bury his estranged father. He finds himself drawn to the mystical
Spyfall
OTTAWA PREMIERE A comical Bond-parody.Canadian Secret Agent Mike Hawk is called upon to take over a case and investigate the death of his predecessor. Airplane! meets Casino Royale! Director and cast in attendance Tickets $10 Presented by Brett Kelly Entertainment
Boyhood
The second shot of “Boyhood” doubles as the movie’s poster image: a young child named Mason, Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) lying on his back in green grass, staring at the sky. He does not speak and there is no voice-over narration, so we cannot know what’s in his head. But the