Movies
Tommy
Nearly four decades after its release, The Whos genre-defining rock opera is still a powerful experience, musically and visually the music has the ferocity of a Who live performance with performances grounded in real emotions. (AV Club) In short, this film sure plays a mean pinball.
Sex and the City 2
PRESENTED BY TRACY ARNETT FREE ADMISSION WITH A DONATION TO CARE CANADA Save your money for some Manolo Blahniks! Tracy Arnett presents a special FREE SCREENING with a FREE SMALL POPCORN and DRINK for every audience member of the sex-tacular sequel to the big-screen adaptation of the hit
The Sessions
OSCAR NOMINEE, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS A man (John Hawkes, Winters Bone) who is confined to an iron lung decides at age 38 that he wants to lose his virginity, and hires a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets) to help him, in what might just
Mandingo
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS When this slave-sploitation/bare-knuckle fighter classic first premiered, critics foamed over its trashiness and immorality yet its excesses invariably reveal the caustic truths of social critique. No character in the film is pure, and yet none is free: All are part of a self-perpetuating
Jason and the Argonauts
HARRYHAUSEN IN THE HOUSE Tom Hanks put it best: “Everybody thinks that Citizen Kane was the greatest movie ever made. But if you were young in 1963, you know the real answer is Jason and the Argonauts.” Prepare to meet the Children of the Hydras Teeth!
The Impossible
OSCAR NOMINEE, BEST LEAD ACTRESS No washout, this based-on-a-true-story of a vacationing British family (headed by Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor) caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is technologically a marvel the tsunami experience is harrowingly believable but also emotionally rich. I hesitate to use this term,
Hyde Park on Hudson
GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE, BEST ACTOR I always suspected that Bill Murray would make a great president, and this film in which he portrays Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, on the eve of WWII, is welcoming the visiting King and Queen of England, battling polio and juggling a complicated love life
Horse Feathers
THE IDES OF MARX Hello, I must be going because I dont know what The Marx Brothers were thinking when they conceived this exercise in higher-education hilarity, but whatever it is, Im against it.
Holy Motors
BEST FILM OF THE YEAR INDIEWIRE, FILM COMMENT, CAHIERS DU CINEMA The years biggest must-see/cant-comprehend movie “is weird and wonderful, rich and strange barking mad, in fact. It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
NOMINATED FOR THREE OSCARS Now we know why Hobbits eat all those extra meals to make it through the running time of Peter Jackson movies! Seriously though, this return to Middle Earth is everything you wished for a fantasy with the power to haunt your dreams. (Rolling Stone)