Movies
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
Gone With The Pope
OTTAWA PREMIERE The job: kidnap the pope. The ransom: one dollar from every Catholic on Earth. Assembled from an incomplete work print and raw footage by the Oscar-winning editor of The Hurt Locker, this resurrected sub-B film the unfinished passion project of director Mitchell, who died in 1981
Dog Who Stopped The War, The
CANADIAN CULT REVUE This Cold-War era story of a literal cold war finds kids battling for control of a giant snow fort with only a super-smart dog and a subtle anti-war message standing between them and snowball-fuelled mutually assured destruction. Learn more about this family classic at lostdominion.blogspot.com
Cameroon: Coming Out of the Nkuta
PRESENTED BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO MARK HUMAN RIGHTS DAY This timely doc follows Alice Nkom, a lawyer who offers legal assistance to gay men and women in Cameroon a country where simply being homosexual can land you in jail for five years. Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of
Cell 211
OTTAWA PREMIERE Trainee prison guard Juan is accidentally knocked unconscious on his first day, and wakes to find himself in the middle of a full-scale riot in this quick-thinking thriller that won eight Goya Awards (Spanish Oscars). Tough as nails and cunning as a career criminal, Cell 211 is a