Movies
Iron Man 3
DIrector Shane Black (writer of Lethal Weapon) puts Tony Stark through the wringer after the aftermath of the New York battle has left him haunted. To make matters more harrowing, a terrorist known as The Mandarin (Sir Ben Kingsley) has found a chink in Stark’s armour.
City on Fire
THE DRUNKEN MASTER’S DOJO Here’s another example of why Chow-yun-Fat is the premiere badass of international action cinema. Here he plays a cop who goes undercover with a gang of jewel thieves. If this sounds a lot like Reservoir Dogs, you’re right on the money, as
The Canyons
OTTAWA PREMIERE A sexually charged look at the lives of the bad and the beautiful, directed by the writer of Taxi Driver and written by the author of American Psycho. A low budget filmmaker (porn star James Deen) becomes enraged when he discovers that the leading man in his latest
The Searchers
JOHN FORD FILM FESTIVAL Considered by many critics and filmmakers to be one of the greatest movies ever made. This is the tale of ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) and his five year journey to rescue his niece Debbie (Natalie Wood) from Comanches, whom he hates, but curiously understands
How Green Was My Valley
JOHN FORD FILM FESTIVAL OSCAR WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR | BEST ART DIRECTION | BEST B&W CINEMATOGRAPHY | BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: DONALD CRISP | BEST PICTURE With a stellar cast that includes Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara and Roddy McDowall, this tale of a coal mining family’s difficult life during the turn
The Grapes of Wrath
JOHN FORD FILM FESTIVAL OSCAR WINNER – BEST DIRECTOR | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: JANE DARWELL The classic tale from author John Steinbeck stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who after a stint in prison for manslaughter, journeys with his family to California to find a work in migrant camps. “(this
World War Z
PRESENTED BY ZOMBIEINFO.COM Brad Pitt is a United Nations rep who must save his family (and maybe even the rest of globe) from total annihilation by zombies. At least he gets to see the world ”Walking out of World War Z, I realized I probably havent felt this edgy and paranoid
Soylent Green
Soylent Green – Screening the Week of May 27! Advance tickets now available for Soylent Green! A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth. Special screenings of the 1973 sci-fi classic, set in 2022! Academy of Science
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Famously considered the worst movie ever made by the world’s worst filmmaker to wear women’s clothing, this sci-fi yarn concerns the titular plan by a breed of aliens to reanimate the dead on earth (i.e. Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson and Bela Lugosi, who died before the film was completed and
Jurassic Shark
OTTAWA PREMIERE | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE Ottawa schlockmeister Brett Kelly brings you this biting tale of a prehistoric shark unleashed by an evil oil company, and it’s very hungry! Like the poster says, “You are chum.”