Movies
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
Grindhouse
See! Two great movies for the price of one! Together in one SMASH EXPLOSIVE show! The last hope for humanity rests on a high-power machine gun in Planet Terror! Plus! Kurt Russell is a white-hot juggernaut at 200 miles per hour in Death Proof! Double bill screening with intermission and
Emmanuelle
R.I.P. SYLVIA KRISTEL (SEPT 27, 1952OCT. 18 2012) X was never like this and with the recent, untimely death of Sylvia Kristel, it never will be again.
Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2011 PRESENTED BY LOST MARBLES If you like King of Kong, start rolling your quarters for a ticket to this doc about the Classic Tetris World Championship and the search for the worlds greatest Tetris player. Makes a solid case for Tetris
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)
Dredd
The two biggest signs this adaptation of the Judge Dredd comics is superior to the 1995 Stallone version: 1) Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) never removes his helmet. 2) No Rob Schneider. Grungy, compact and delightfully violent, Dredd wants to hit you as hard as it can justice has been done.
Darwin
OTTAWA PREMIERE | WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY, ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL At the end of a long, dusty road in Californias Death Valley lies the town of Darwin. Government: none. Services: none. Jobs: none. Population: 35. Exploring who would live here, and why, this doc is a beautiful, elegiac work with unexpected
The Dark Knight Rises
Youve probably already seen The Dark Knight Rises, but this is your chance to watch again and figure out exactly what Bane is saying.
The Bourne Legacy
So, wait, Jeremy Renner gets to take over the Mission: Impossible franchise and the Bourne franchise and be in The Avengers? I might be resentful if it werent for the fact that this film takes a formula franchise (albeit a great one) and [does] something odd and curious and fantastic
Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles – Screening March 5, 7, 8! Advance tickets now available for Blazing Saddles! In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Madeline Kahn), Film Editing, Original Song nominee!