Movies
John Dies at the End
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF MIDNIGHT MADNESS 2012 Spoiler alert? Two slackers (one of them the doomed John) discover a literal gateway drug one that opens a door to another dimension and take it on themselves to protect the world from the monsters that dwell in
Quartet
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto, starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins as four retired opera singers.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
HARRYHAUSEN IN THE HOUSE Sinbads first six voyages must have been pretty humdrum, because special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen saved the run-ins with the Cyclops, the roc, the genie and the dragon plus the swordfight with the living skeleton for this one!
The Suicide Shop
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2012 PRESENTED BY ANIMATIONEWS.COM Director Leconte (Monsieur Hire) makes his animation debut with this tale of a family that runs a very peculiar business a business threatened by a son with incurable joie de vivre. A film that will delight with its
Cloudburst
OTTAWA PREMIERE | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE This tale of two lesbians (Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker) who escape their nursing home and head to Canada to marry could have been a geriatric Thelma and Louise. But in the hands of writer/director Fitzgerald (The Hanging Garden), it delivers a beautifully-written ode
Wanderweg
FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE In his first feature-length documentary, Ottawa filmmaker Neeko Paluzzi attempts to traverse Switzerland on foot with only a backpack and a camera. Somewhere in the mountains, he hopes to find a letter that he wrote to himself five years earlier. What he finds instead is a crossroads
Mysterious Island
HARRYHAUSEN IN THE HOUSE Well, of course its mysterious its guarded by giant crabs! Whos going to brave those (not to mention the giant bees, birds and other monsters brought stunning life by stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen) to tell people about it?
Zero Dark Thirty
NOMINATED FOR FIVE OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST MOTION PICTURE Every bit as inky and obfuscating as the military time for which its named, this uncompromising dramatization of the very compromised manhunt for Osama Bin Laden is a timely and important reminder of the agonizing human price of zealotry (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
This Is Hannibal: The Devon Nicholson Story
FILMMAKER AND STAR IN ATTENDANCE | RE-EDITED WITH A NEW ENDING When rising WWE star Devon Nicholson was diagnosed with hepatitis C, his professional wrestling career ended and a new chapter in his life began. Expanded since it first appeared at film festivals, this doc (shot in Ottawa, surrounding