Movies
Machine Gun Preacher
Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monsters Ball) directs Gerard Butler in the based-on-a-true-story of Sam Childers, a biker-gang member and drug dealer who found grace under (gun)fire when he moved to Sudan to protect orphans threatened by the countrys civil war.
Le Havre
AWARD WINNER, CANNES 2011 A young Senegalese refugee is separated from his stowaway family and ends up in the French port city of Le Havre (Haven), where hes befriended by an aging shoe-shiner in director Kaurismakis welcome return an intelligent and emotional vision of Europe as it could be,
Gone With The Wind
If you dont come see timeless tale of two people coming together as a country tears itself apart, how will you spend your evening? Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn.
Dragonslayer (2011)
OTTAWA PREMIERE | WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY SXSW 2011 A punk-rock ode to waning youth and love during the decline of western civilization, this doc follows faded skateboard legend Josh Skreech Sandoval as he tramps across So-Cal from one low-rent skate competition to another. Low-key and observant a portrait of a
Dirty Girl
OTTAWA PREMIERE Its 1987 and Danielle, who has a rep as her schools dirty girl, ditches her judgmental classmates to take a road trip with her only real friend, overweight bully-bait Clarke. Star Juno Temple (Greenberg) project[s] a real wit burning beneath the layers of makeup and dumb-blonde shtick her
What Is It?
DIRECTOR CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER IN ATTENDANCE! | CO-PRESENTED BY CKCU This bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly-comic film that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes does not advocate the assassination of Steven Spielberg in any way. Director Glover will be on
It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine!
CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER | 74 MIN. | US | 2007 | 35 MM | R DIRECTOR CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER IN ATTENDANCE | CO-PRESENTED BY CKCU Screenwriter Steven C. Stewart stars in this semi-autobiographical, psycho-sexual tale of a man with severe cerebral palsy and a fetish for girls with long hair.
Breakfast Club, The
FUNDRAISER FOR CANTERBURY HIGH SCHOOL Five strangers with nothing in common, except each other. This Brat Pack version of Twelve Angry Men has grown up, but its heart hasnt died.
Billy Bishop Goes To War
OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2011 Director Sweete reunites actor Eric Peterson and writer/composer John Gray for a luminous filmed production of their iconic play about Canadas most celebrated WWI flying ace. Even after playing the part for 30 years, Petersons frantic, charismatic performance captures the giddy, hallucinatory velocity of war. (Globe
Beyond The Myth
PRESENTED BY THE DOG LEGISLATION COUNCIL OF CANADA A film about pit bulls and those who love and defend them, Beyond the Myth explores the public’s generalized fear of the dogs and the conflict between advocates and opponents of Breed Specific Legislation and asks, “What exactly is a pit