Movies
Tower Heist
The 99% (represented, improbably enough, by Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy) get their revenge on the 1% (represented, improbably enough, by Alan Alda) in this #occupy caper that finds our heroes attempting to steal back $20 million in pilfered pension funds (yes, from a tower). A smoothly engineered crowd pleaser.
Melancholia
WINNER, BEST ACTRESS CANNES 2011 Sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find their already strained relationship deteriorating even further under the stress of Justines wedding oh, and the fact that the Earth is about to be destroyed by a rogue planetoid. Did I mention it’s a Lars
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
Exploitation movies dont come much more exploitative than this tale of a warden in a P.O.W. camp who conducts vicious experiments (which mostly look like low-rent bondage fantasies) aimed at proving that women can endure more pain than men. Filmed on the sets of Hogans Heroes, if that helps.
Machine Gun Preacher
Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monsters Ball) directs Gerard Butler in the based-on-a-true-story of Sam Childers, a biker-gang member and drug dealer who found grace under (gun)fire when he moved to Sudan to protect orphans threatened by the countrys civil war.
Le Havre
AWARD WINNER, CANNES 2011 A young Senegalese refugee is separated from his stowaway family and ends up in the French port city of Le Havre (Haven), where hes befriended by an aging shoe-shiner in director Kaurismakis welcome return an intelligent and emotional vision of Europe as it could be,
Gone With The Wind
If you dont come see timeless tale of two people coming together as a country tears itself apart, how will you spend your evening? Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn.
Dragonslayer (2011)
OTTAWA PREMIERE | WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY SXSW 2011 A punk-rock ode to waning youth and love during the decline of western civilization, this doc follows faded skateboard legend Josh Skreech Sandoval as he tramps across So-Cal from one low-rent skate competition to another. Low-key and observant a portrait of a
Dirty Girl
OTTAWA PREMIERE Its 1987 and Danielle, who has a rep as her schools dirty girl, ditches her judgmental classmates to take a road trip with her only real friend, overweight bully-bait Clarke. Star Juno Temple (Greenberg) project[s] a real wit burning beneath the layers of makeup and dumb-blonde shtick her
Breakfast Club, The
FUNDRAISER FOR CANTERBURY HIGH SCHOOL Five strangers with nothing in common, except each other. This Brat Pack version of Twelve Angry Men has grown up, but its heart hasnt died.
Billy Bishop Goes To War
OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2011 Director Sweete reunites actor Eric Peterson and writer/composer John Gray for a luminous filmed production of their iconic play about Canadas most celebrated WWI flying ace. Even after playing the part for 30 years, Petersons frantic, charismatic performance captures the giddy, hallucinatory velocity of war. (Globe