Movies

Real Steel

Hugh Jackman teaches a robot how to box — and audiences how to be less judgmental about a movie’s 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, he’s 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, it’s “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. Here’s to internal combustion and wind in the face.

Great Muppet Caper, The

The Muppets find it’s not easy being green (or any other colour) when you’re 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 don’t) 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… [it’s] 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

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