Movies
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
Virginia
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2010 Directed by the Oscar-winning writer of Milk, this blackly-comedic Southern gothic melodrama turns on the relationship between a married, politically ambitious sheriff (Ed Harris) and his secret lover (Jennifer Connelly, doing her best work in years (Georgia Straight)) and what happens when their
Derby Baby: A Story of Love, Addiction and Rink Rash
OTTAWA PREMIERE | PRESENTED BY RIDEAU VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS Juliette Lewis (Whip It) narrates this documentary about the adrenaline, love and pure addiction that drive women around the world to don fishnets and pseudonyms for the privilege of kicking one anothers asses on the roller derby flat track. LICENSED FOR