Movies
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
This character study of Kevin Clash, the Muppeteer behind the worldwide phenomenon reveals a very successful, talented and humble man [with strong themes of talent, ambition, mentorship and righteous decency instilled by Jim Henson’s legacy run through every experience. (Exclaim) The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland also plays this month.
Blank City
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION HOT DOCS 2011 Telling story of the 1970s Manhattan underground film movement in the words of the people who lived it including Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi, Vincent Gallo, John Lurie, John Waters and Debbie Harry this is a vivid, vicarious tour [that]
Flesh Gordon
Emperor Wang the Perverted, leader of the planet Porno, attacks Earth with his mighty Sex Rayand turns the population into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the planet, football player Flesh Gordon. A bizarre, sexy spoof of the sci-fi classic that had a four issue mini-series
With Glowing Hearts
This inspiring, crowd-sourced documentary follows a group of citizen journalists who tried to reshape their world through social media during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics by drawing attention to the challenges facing the residents of the city’s notorious and impoverished Downtown Eastside. See it and be changed.
Super 8
Abrams, who brought new life to Mission: Impossible and revitalized the ailing Star Trek franchise, now pays tribute to Spielbergs classics with this tale of one boys unforgettable summer. (Is Spielberg allowed to produce an homage to himself?) See the films that inspired Super 8 all month long, including E.T.,
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION SUNDANCE 2011 This long-overdue doc details how, when two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbors, they accidentally created a phenomenon that became one of the world’s first viral pop-culture sensations a decade before most people had heard of the internet.
Project Nim
Taken from his mother days after birth, raised by a succession of human hosts and taught sign language, chimpanzee Nims life was one long experiment. In exploring Nims life, this film from the Oscar-winning team behind Man on Wire becomes an endlessly fascinating, moving documentary [that] shows the
Missing In Action 2: The Beginning
A prisoner to strong too hold. A soldier too dangerous to let go. A one-man time bomb set to explode! Who could it be but Chuck Norris? The first two Missing in Action films were shot simultaneously, but producers judged part two stronger and released it first; thus the sequel
Missing In Action
There were many copycats after Stallone established the Rambo-style action hero in 1982s First Blood. But this, Chuck Norris contribution, feels more Rambo-esque than most, because as it was on a story treatment written by James Cameron for the Rambo sequel. See Missing in Action 2: The Beginning the same
The Jerk
The Jerk – 40th Anniversary! Thursday February 21st at 9:20pm – an I Can’t Believe You Haven’t Seen screening, presented by Embarrassing Humans! —– How many times have you brought up a movie you consider to be essential viewing only to hear someone say they’ve never seen it? I can’t