Movies
84th Annual Academy Awards – Live Telecast
PRESENTED BY CKCU FM | FREE FOR MEMBERS | LICENSED FOR ALCOHOL Feb. 26, the biggest and best Oscar party in Ottawa takes place right here at the Mayfair! Walk the red carpet, enjoy fit-for-a-star refreshments and watch as motion picture history unfolds where its supposed to on the
Yakuza Weapon
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, FANTASIA 2011 The director of Mutant Girls Squad and the writer of Versus team up for this tender tale of a hit man with a Gattling gun for an arm and a rocket launcher for a leg. Bloody, brilliantly choreographed and utterly insane. (Quiet Earth)
Les Femmes du 6e étage (The Women on the 6th Floor)
In 1960s Paris, a bourgeois couples life is turned upside-down by their Spanish maid, who lives you guessed it! on the 6th floor of their building in this genial fantasy (Austin Chronicle) about finding friendship and fulfillment where you least expect it. English subtitles
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