Movies
Muppets, The
OSCAR WINNER FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG: “MAN OR MUPPET” We take our Muppets pretty seriously here at the Mayfair, so were happy to report that Jason Segels attempt to bring back Kermit, Piggy and the whole gang (with a movie about bringing back Kermit, Piggy and the whole gang) is
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The (2011)
OSCAR WINNER FOR BEST FILM EDITING! Hiring David Fincher to direct the Dragon Tattoo remake was a forehead-slap of obviousness, but it works. He set[s] a mood of evil dipped in black rubber [and creates] an electrifying movie by turning the audience into addicts of the forbidden, looking for the
Artist, The
WINNER OF 5 OSCARS! BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR – JEAN DUJARDIN BEST DIRECTOR – MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS BEST ORIGINAL SCORE BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN Immersing the audience in the tale of a silent movie actor whose career is threatened by the advent of sound, it doesn’t take this captivating and
Iron Lady, The
WINNER OF 2 OSCARS! BEST ACTRESS – MERYL STREEP BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP This balanced portrait of Margaret Thatchers rise to power is the last film funded by the UK Film Council (shuttered in 2010, in a move that Maggie would no doubt have applauded, as part of Britains austerity
Hugo
WINNER OF FIVE OSCARS! BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS Scorseses family film about an orphaned boy who lives behind the walls of a Paris train station is equal parts
War Horse, The
Six Academy Award Nominations: – Best Motion Picture of the Year – Best Achievement in Cinematography – Best Achievement in Art Direction – Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score – Best Achievement in Sound Mixing – Best Achievement in Sound Editing Based on the acclaimed play and novel, this tale of a
Bloodsport
DRUNKEN MASTER’S DOJO Many Van Damme aficionados consider this film (his first lead role, which vaults him into an Enter-The-Dragon-style martial arts competition the lethal Kumite) to be his best. They must be forgetting his dual role as a serial killer and the killers clone in Replicant.
Dangerous Method, A
NOMINATED FOR 11 GENIES, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE What do you think it means that Cronenbergs elegant drama about the invention of psychoanalysis features a dream cast including Cronen-muse Viggo Mortensen as Freud, the omnipresent Michael Fassbender as Jung and Keira Knightly, playing against WASP-type, as a patient who becomes Jungs
New Brunswick Films for a New Brunswick Theatre
Join us for an afternoon of films from New Brunswick and help raise funds to purchase and restore the historic Paramount Theatre in Saint John. Watch the short doc Saving the Paramount, hear the plan to transform it into a multi-use performing arts centre, and help save a piece
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
10th Anniversary! Screening on August 29th and 30th, and September 2nd and 3rd! Click here for advance tickets Scott Pilgrim is a 23-year-old radical Canadian gamer and wannabe rockstar who falls in love with an American delivery girl, Ramona Flowers, and must defeat her seven evil exes to be