Movies
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
Shame
GOLDEN GLOBE AND BAFTA NOMINEE, BEST ACTOR Director McQueen played out the deadly politics of 1970s Britain on Michael Fassbenders body in Hunger and now makes that same body (every inch of it) a battleground for sexual politics in this tale of sex addiction and urban alienation. Riveting,
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
BAFTA WINNER, OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM | NOMINATED FOR 3 OSCARS The director of the Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In may seem an odd choice to helm the adaptation of le Carres quintessential espionage novel, but he delivers a film thats utterly absorbing, extremely smart and considering