Movies
Difret
Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village, the practice of abduction
Difret
IN AMHARIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her
Die Hard
Your favourite Holiday Season movie tradition at the Mayfair returns, escaping from the Disney Vaults one more time! The best Christmas movie ever! The best every-man action movie ever! The best Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman movie ever! The pinnacle definition of the 1980s action spectacular. Yippee-ki-yay, stocking-stuffers. 5 Stars!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Gordon returns for a summer of humiliation in this third installment of the Wimpy Kid series. In an era of 3-D childrens films with fantastical premises and CGI spectacle and supernatural protagonists, theres something ingratiatingly modest about the life-sized, two-dimensional world of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. (AV Club)
Diary of a Teenage Girl, The
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and
Diane
Ottawa Premiere the Week of May 31st! Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories. Palm Springs International Film
Diana
OTTAWA PREMIERE “[Naomi] Watts’ work is extraordinary” (Time Out New York) as she portrays the late royal during the time of her ill-fated love affair with Dr. Hasnat Khan.
Diamonds Are Forever
Theres little in the way of romance in this Bond outing (unless you count the one between hit men Wint and Kidd), despite the nuptial overtones of its title. Nevertheless, with Bond hot on the trail of smuggled diamonds a trail that leads directly to Blofeld this film
Dheepan
Three Sri Lankan refugees (Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby) pretend to be a family as they try to make better lives for themselves in a Parisian housing project.
Devil’s Double, The
The director of Once Were Warriors returns to tell the chilling true story of the man drafted to be the body double of Saddam Husseins sadistic son, Uday. Starring Dominic Cooper in both roles, this is a film as elegant as it is flamboyant, beautifully designed and gorgeously shot. (Box