Movies
Frances Ha
Frances (Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote with director Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale)), a freewheeling woman with an unsettled life, is the centre of this refreshingly contemporary story of twenty-something uncertainly and in-the-moment living that is “an absolute delight.” (Quickflix)
Fractured Land
OTTAWA PREMIERE | FEBRUARY 3 & 4 “…the film is powerful; a skillful study in landscape as well as character.” – The Globe and Mail “Fractured Land thus becomes something of a hybrid itself. On the one hand its a straight-up environmental doc, calling viewers to action on oil-drilling issues:
Foxy Brown
Foxy Brown – Screening on March 28, 29! Advance tickets now available for Foxy Brown! Foxy Brown seeks vigilante revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down by gangsters. “Hill’s potent direction and Grier’s impressive screen presence bring this one home…great-looking, great-sounding” (Combustible Celluloid) “Foxy Brown is
Foxy
An Alopecia Awareness Event. Foxy tells the story of Penny Todd, a 20 year old aspiring filmmaker who is desperately trying to keep a “secret” in order to feel “normal” in a world of unachievable societal beauty standards. At the age of ten, Penny lost all of the hair on
Foxcatcher
FOXCATCHER is a psychological drama directed by Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller (MONEYBALL) and starring Golden Globe winner Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave and Sienna Miller. The film was written by E. Max Frye and Academy Award nominee Dan Futterman. FOXCATCHER
Four-Wheeled Furies
LIVE CBC BROADCAST | CAST AND CREW IN ATTENDANCE | FREE ADMISSION This doc (co-directed by our very own Geek-in-Chief Josh Stafford) dives elbows-first into the world of roller derby, covering all aspects of the sport physical, political and social through interviews with new skaters (aka fresh meat)
Four Lions
OTTAWA PREMIERE A group of incompetent British jihadists try, and repeatedly fail, to organize a terrorist strike in this transgressive, BAFTA-nominated comedy that takes place on the razor edge between ideology and idiocy. The raucously funny, slapdash comedy mixes gallows humor with inspired brilliant gags. (A.V. Club)
Founder, The
This drama tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a
Found Footage Festival
At this skull-crushingly funny (AV Club) celebration of odd and hilarious found videos, hosts Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show with David Letterman) provide observations and commentary on VHS oddities from curiously-produced industrial training videos to forsaken home movies discovered at thrift shops and garage sales throughout