Movies
Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The
Werner Herzog takes his camera and his Herzog-ness inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, which contain chamber upon chamber of spectacular prehistoric art, seen by only a handful of people before. You will exclaim out loud, ooh and ahh, feel shivers of recognition go down your spine.
Blair Witch Project, The
LOST MARBLES GEEK NIGHTS In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found and a pop culture phenomenon was born.
Attack The Block
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION SXSW 2011 Outer space meets inner city as a gang of teenagers from South London defends its housing project from alien invaders in this action-packed, surprising and socially aware piece of lo-fi sci-fi. Equally concerned with both interspecies- and class-conflicts, this is the best movie
Another Earth
When a second Earth complete with a double of everyone on our Earth appears in the sky, it becomes the catalyst for a tragedy, and one womans chance for redemption in this haunting film that, like all good science fiction uses the fantastic as a means of exploring
Midnight In Paris
Allen gives The City of Lights the Manhattan treatment in this story of an engaged writer (Owen Wilson) who encounters temptation on a trip to France. Wilson is pitch-perfect at locating the right blend of humour and gravity [and the film] is infused with seductive secrets bracing humour and ravishing
Empire of the Sun
Steven Spielberg’s first dramatic film about World War II (well, the first one not involving Indiana Jones punching Nazis) is an epic told in miniature, from the point of view of a young British boy (a then-13-year-old Christian Bale) caught up in the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Empire of the