Movies
Local Hero
FUNDRAISER FOR FRIENDS OF LANSDOWNE This fun-filled fundraiser for Friends of Lansdowne has only one serious goal raising some money towards their outstanding legal costs. It starts with a reception for our own local heroes, followed by a screening of the uplifting comedy Local Hero, which pits a giant
Robot & Frank
OTTAWA PREMIERE In the not-too-distant future, aging former cat burglar Frank (Frank Langella) receives an unwanted gift: a robot butler/health care aide (Peter Sarsgaard). If that sounds like an unlikely setup for a heist film, it is, but its an even more unlikely setup for what the film really is:
Roller Town
OTTAWA PREMIERE | 1 NIGHT ONLY | OFFICIAL SELECTION, SLAMDANCE 2012 When a roller skating-obsessed town is overrun by video-game-shilling gangsters, only one man has the funk deep enough to boogie them back to oblivion in this free-wheeling first feature from Canadian comedy troupe PicnicFace. PicnicFace cranks out the good.
Ted
As a boy, John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) brought his beloved teddy bear, Ted, to life with an innocent wish. That was about 30 years ago, and Ted is still at Johns best bud a fact thats starting to grate on Johns girlfriend (Mila Kunis). Told with trademark crudeness and
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
The third installment of the Chainsaw franchise features plenty of new meat (including genre great Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead) and, surprisingly enough, a young Viggo Mortensen). And you know what fresh meat means good eatin!
Iron Sky
In 1945, the Nazis went to the moon. In 2012, theyre coming back with this unapologetically corny retro-cinema pastiche thats pretty much guaranteed to be a future guilty pleasure. (Quiet Earth)
First Position
Six young dancers vie for elite scholarships at the worlds most prestigious ballet competition, the Youth America Grand Prix, in this doc that is filled with fascinating people [and] strikes just the right balance between backstory and contest, so that, when the moment of truth [comes], the viewer is fully
Farewell, My Queen
Chronicling the final days of Marie Antoinettes court through the eyes of a servant (Léa Seydoux) whos smitten with the queen (Diane Kruger), this period drama from master filmmaker Jacquot is tense, absorbing [and] pleasurably original (NY Times). English subtitles.
Bubba Ho-Tep
10TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING | PRESENTED BY ZOMBIE INFO Bruce Campbell was already the Elvis of B-movies when he finally played The King battling a life-sucking mummy alongside JFK (Ossie Davis, playing against type and race) in this deep-fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich of a film from the director of the Phantasm and
Brave
PRESENTED BY MRS. TIGGYWINKLES Pixar makes a triumphant return with the tale of Merida, one of the most anti-Disney-princess princesses ever, who unleashes chaos when she turns her back on her royal duties. A rousing, gorgeously animated good time [that proves that] the beasts of the Scottish wild are no