Movies
Rum Diary, The
Its a good thing he kept a diary otherwise theres no way Hunter S. Thompson would have remembered the drug-and-alcohol-soaked details of this semi-autobiographical story of his time as journalist in Puerto Rico. From the director of Withnail & I.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
In the early 80s, strange tiles bearing the phrase Toynbee Idea In Kubricks 2001 Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter began appearing embedded in sidewalks worldwide. This doc seeks out the man and the message behind the tiles, and in so doing, creates an uncommonly sensitive and layered portrait of outsider-dom.
Real Steel
Hugh Jackman teaches a robot how to box and audiences how to be less judgmental about a movies premise.
Paul Goodman Changed My Life
OTTAWA PREMIERE Paul Goodman was the guru of the New Left, a bestselling author and poet, a pacifist anarchist, an urban planner, an out, gay family man and even had a cameo in Annie Hall and yet today, hes all but forgotten. Get to know him in this doc
Ides of March, The
George Clooney directs and co-stars along side Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright and the Baby Goose in this appropriately titled drama about betrayals both personal and of ideals on the campaign trail. See it early, see it often.
Help, The
This adaptation of the bestselling novel about an aspiring journalist (Emma Stone) who tells the tales of black maids in Jim Crow-era Mississippi could easily have been a disastrous exercise in cultural appropriation. But instead, its a deeply touching human story filled with humor and heartbreak The Help is an
Guard, The
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle give the buddy-cop comedy a Celtic twist in this flick that combines a blackly comic tone, a cops-and-drug-smugglers story and an obvious sense of pleasure in the joys of snappy, philosophically inclined dialogue. (Time Out NY)
Gumball Rally, The
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS Before The Cannonball Run came The Gumball Rally the original coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race. Heres to internal combustion and wind in the face.
Great Muppet Caper, The
The Muppets find its not easy being green (or any other colour) when youre accused of jewel theft in this, their second foray onto the big screen. Watch for cameos from John Cleese, Peter Falk, Diana Rigg, Charles Grodin and Oscar the Grouch, among others.
Goin’ Down The Road
Friends Pete and Joey leave Nova Scotia in hopes of finding a better life in Toronto (they dont) in this landmark Can-con/neorealist time capsule. A story that contains joy, silliness, love and despair [and] achieves a documentary objectivity that touches us deeply [its] about hard times here and now, and