Friends With Kids

Jennifer Westfeldt (writer and star of Kissing Jessica Stein) makes her directorial debut helming an all-star cast (including Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jon Hamm, Adam Scott, Edward Burns and Megan Fox) in this rom-com about two platonic friends who decide to have a kid together. Surprisingly, things don’t go as

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax

When nature’s in trouble, each tree and mosquito, there’s just one Lorax to call — and it’s Danny Devito! With Barbalots, Once-lers and Truffala Trees, an Efron, a Swift, Ed Helms and some Thneeds, this fable-ous fable is just what you need! To learn more, buy a ticket (why not

Dolphin Tale

MOVIE FOR HOPE FUNDRAISER FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE Unfortunate titular puns aside, this based-on-a-true-story of a boy who forms an enduring friendship with an injured dolphin is “a kid’s movie without condescension.” (Variety) All tickets $5 | Presented by Mr. Firestone’s grade four class at Mutchmor Public School and Mark Lalonde of

Coriolanus

Screenwriter John Logan (Hugo, Rango, Gladiator) is working from pretty good source material (Shakespeare’s 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

Casa de Mi Padre

OTTAWA PREMIERE Proyectando en una forma de ahorrar rancho de su padre, los hermanos Álvarez se encuentran en una guerra con el señor de las drogas en México más temido en esta película rodada íntegramente en español. Con Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal y Diego Luna. English subtitles (Which is

Going Blind

Landsdowne Follies III: Folly Harder

Enjoy the music of Ian Tamblyn, Amanda Rheaume, Tara Holloway, and the Just Voices community choir while supporting transparency and accountability from our local government. All proceeds will be used to support the Friends of Lansdowne legal challenge. Learn more at letsgetitright.ca. Sunday, Apr. 15 | 4:00 PM

Doppelganger Paul

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2011 When Karl’s manuscript (A Book About How Much I Hate Myself) is stolen, he meets Paul, who seems to be his doppelganger — despite the fact they look nothing alike. The kind of “meta-comedy that we’ve come to expect from Charlie Kaufman… [with

Stone Killer, The

SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS One year before Death Wish, director Winner teamed with Charles Bronson to tell this story of a detective out to stop a Mafia assassination plot — that uses Vietnam veterans as the killers! “Probably the best violent big-city police movie since Dirty Harry.”

Carleton University History Department presents: The Humanitarians: A (Very) Short History in Two Documentary Films

The Carleton University History Department presents a FREE screening of two documentaries on humanitarian aid: Humanitarian Citadel (about the International Committee of the Red Cross’ work during Yemen’s Civil War) and The Fight Against Typhus (about the ICRC’s work in Poland in the wake of WWI). For more