Movies
Beasts of the Southern Wild
WINNER, GRAND JURY PRIZE, SUNDANCE 2012 In post-Katrina Louisiana, a young girl named Hushpuppy cares for her hard-drinking father while prehistoric creatures roam the swamps around her. A game-changer that gets you excited about movies again it creates a world to get lost in, a world of beauty, terror
The Amazing Spider-Man
Created by Sony to prevent their screen rights from reverting back to Marvel, this reboot of the Spider-Man franchise swaps Sam Raimi for Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) Tobey Maguire for Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) and organic webshooters for mechanical ones. Considerably more fun and, yes,
2 Days in New York
Writer/director Julie Delpys sequel to 2007s 2 Days in Paris swaps the City of Lights for the City That Never Sleeps, Adam Goldberg for Chris Rock and offers great charm, and considerable insight, in [its] ideas about romance, cultural misunderstanding and daily life in a modern metropolis. (NY Times)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
MAYFAIRS 80TH BIRTHDAY FUNDRAISER | 8 GREAT DECADES: THE 80S We continue our celebration of the Mayfairs 80th birthday with your picks for the best films of the 80s. The whip. The hat. The theme song. It all starts here, as Spielberg and Lucas recapture the magic of the movie
The Godfather
The Godfather- Screening the week of November 8 Advance tickets now available for The Godfather! Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps
Superman IV – The Quest for Peace
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman’s hair, Luthor
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, SUNDANCE 2011 Despite its title, this doc has a sobering subject the Liberian warlord who, with his army of child soldiers, slaughtered thousands during the countrys protracted civil war. Ten years later, he re-emerged as an evangelical preacher, preaching (and seeking) forgiveness. Whether or
We Have a Pope
PALME DOR NOMINEE, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2011 IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Being Pope is (pardon the pun) a hell of a responsibility and more than the man elected to the post, Cardinal Melville, is ready for. So, he goes on the lam, throwing the Vatican into chaos, in
Cannibal Ferox
RIP SAGE STALLONE (MAY 5, 1976JULY 13, 2012) Two Americans travel to the Amazon to disprove the existence of cannibalism. They fail.
China Heavyweight
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, HOT DOCS 2012 The director of the acclaimed Up The Yangtze returns with this doc about rural teenagers from Chinas Szetcheun and Zhongli provinces who are recruited as their countrys next Olympic boxing hopefuls. Above all, a human drama a well shot character study that shows how