Movies
Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
OTTAWA PREMIERE Over the course of a career that has spanned 60 years and some 300 sleazy, funny and groundbreaking films, Roger Corman has launched a galaxy of Hollywood stars, including Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron. Welcome to his world.
Coriolanus
Screenwriter John Logan (Hugo, Rango, Gladiator) is working from pretty good source material (Shakespeares tragedy about a fierce warrior who is banished from, and vows revenge on, Rome), and director/star Fiennes brings his script to visceral life, confronting issues of class, duty, valor, and civilian-military relations and dynamics with a
Cop Car
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS SEPTEMBER 11 Kevin Bacon (The Following, HBO’s Taking Chance, Mystic River) stars in director Jon Watts’ delightful throwback thriller Cop Car. When two good-natured but rebellious young boys (James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford) stumble across an abandoned cop car hidden in a secluded glade they decide
Cooties
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS SEPTEMBER 25 A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.
Cool Hand Luke
ROGER EBERTS GREAT MOVIES It is a great film. On that most of us can agree. But such a film could not possibly be made in more recent decades, not one starring Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise or other actors comparable to Paul Newman’s stature. (Roger Ebert)
Cool As Ice
Johnny, a freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician, rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy’s father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally found by the two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who claim he owes
Cool As Ice
Johnny, a freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician, rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy’s father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally found by the two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who claim he owes
Cool As Ice
Johnny, a freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician, rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy’s father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally found by the two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who claim he owes
Cooking with Stella
This lighthearted social comedy follows a couple of Canadian Diplomats to New Delhi, where they inherit a household of servants headed by the entrepreneurial cook Stella. Co-written by Deepa Mehta, and starring Canadian indie films hardest working man, Don McKellar.
Conviction
A single mother (Hilary Swank) puts herself through law school so she can represent her wrongly-imprisoned brother (Sam Rockwell). Wait, this won best actor and best film at the Boston Film Festival, and we’re only showing it for three days? Your Honour, I object!