Movies
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
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. Director Andrew Lavigne will
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
One of only three films Spielberg wrote and directed, Close Encounters finds the directors alter-ego Richard Dreyfuss discovering both visitors from space and a new appreciation of his wifes mash potatoes.