Movies
Trading Places
SAY IT LOUD Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) travels across social strata to bring two manipulative millionaires to ironic justice in this, the funniest movie about race and class ever made.
Team America: World Police
In memory of Kim Jong-Il (16 February, 1941 17 December, 2011), who taught us that even an exalted Dear Leader can feel ronery.
Tabloid
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2010 Master documentarian Morris returns with a tale ripped from the (circa 1977 British tabloid) headlines about a former Miss Wyoming who allegedly kidnapped and seduced a Mormon missionary. Part cold case investigation, part Rashomon and part media-scape odyssey, this is a spellbinding enigma,
Surviving Progress
Based on Ronald Wrights bestseller A Short History Of Progress, this not-a-moment-too-soon doc examines how our desire to thrive is undercutting our ability to survive as we fall into “progress traps” technologies and practices that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. With Stephen Hawking, David Suzuki, Margaret Atwood
Sleeping Beauty
The female counterpoint to Shame, this dark, anti-erotic fable about youth and age follows a university student and sex worker (Emily Browning) who submits to her clients desires while drugged into unconsciousness. This is a brave, thoughtful, highly accomplished debut that rewards as much as it challenges. (Total Film)
Puss In Boots
MRS. TIGGY WINKLES FAMILY MATINEES Antonio Banderas reprises his role as the frisky feline fencer in this purr of a prequel to the Shrek franchise. Also featuring the voice talents of Salma Hayek, Zach Galifanakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris and Guillermo del Toro.
Nightmare
AKA Nightmare in a Damaged Brain and Blood Splash, this flick, which follows a recently (and apparently, prematurely) released mental patient as he hacks his way through New York, is a rare combination of skill and absolute sleaze [that pushes] the slasher film to (literally) illegal levels [a UK
Mill and the Cross, The
Majewskis stunning, nearly wordless film dives into the canvas of Pieter Bruegels The Way to Calvary which depicts both the Crucifixion and the Spanish Inquisition and finds inside a film of great beauty and attention watching it is a form of meditation. (Roger Ebert) English subtitles
Monster Brawl
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION FANTASIAN 2011 Its the fight of the living dead as eight classic creatures including Frankensteins monster, the Mummy, the Wolfman and the Cyclops battle it out, WWF-Pay-Per-View-style in an abandoned, cursed graveyard. This is the movie Freddy vs. Jason wishes it had been.
J. Edgar
We want you to be comfortable when you come to see Clint Eastwoods masterful biopic of the man who was the head of the FBI for nearly 50 years (Leonardo DiCaprio in a brilliant performance (Roger Ebert)) so please feel free to dress, or cross-dress, however you please.