Movies
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
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