Movies
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
If you think you know about this feminist punk group from the media coverage of their trial, and Madonnas flashes of solidarity, thats not the half of it. Filmmakers Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, who won a special jury award in Sundance for this documentary, have forged a riveting account
Rio 2
It’s a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids in RIO 2, after they’re hurtled from that magical city to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all –
German Doctor, The
At the beginning of the Argentinian thriller, The German Doctor, a 12-year-old girl named Lilith is approached by a handsome stranger a creepy sort, with a dashing moustache, watchful eyes and a disconcerting undercurrent of violence reminiscent of Robert Shaw in Jaws who wants to see her doll.
Belle
The charming historical drama Belle is something we dont see very often at the multiplexes, or even the arthouses: a film inspired by a centuries-old painting. In a palace in Scotland hangs an 18th-century portrait of two lovely young women; it is unsigned and its artist unknown. Both of the
Indigenous Resistance & Solidarity: Against Pipelines, For The Land
A night of four short films that include: * RESIST: The Unistotens Call to the Land (2014, 30min) * Kahsatstenhsera: Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines (2013, 10min) * Showdown at Highway 134 (2013, 5min) * Harsha Walia on Anti-Oppression, Decolonization and Responsible Allyship (2012, 10min)
Dom Hemingway
I unreservedly love Richard Shepards Dom Hemingway, and I strongly urge everyone with a taste for quirky, dark crime comedy of the British variety to beat a path to The Carolina to see this unabashedly vulgar and wildly creative movie. It deals in matters both profane and, finally, sacred. And while
Jodorowsky’s Dune
The list of legendary film projects that were never finished include versions of Don Quixote by Orson Welles and Terry Gilliam. The analogy between a Spanish pilgrim tilting at windmills and a filmmaker tussling with circumstances is embodied by a modern-day Don Quixote named Alejandro Jodorowsky. A Chilean avant-garde artist-turned-director,
Joe
OTTAWA PREMIERE -Award Winner for director David Gordon Green and actor Tye Sheridan from the 2013 Venice Film Festival- — We all know the Nicolas Cage memes and have seen the random photos of him looking disheveled out and about. The past few years have not brought Cage any critical acclaim or
Silent Retreat
OTTAWA PREMIERE | PREMIERES JUNE 13 -Winner Best Canadian Feature: Toronto After Dark Film Festival- In this quiet horror film, Janey is sent to a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it are after more than her voice, and
Bears
“Bears captures a spring and summer in the lives of a brown bear and her two nursing cubs. For the sake of storytelling, the filmmakers name their movies mama bear Sky and her cubs Scout and Amber. Actor John C. Reilly narration for this Disneynature True Life Adventure release veers between folksy