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Manhattan Murder Mystery

EYAWTKA WOODY ALLEN Woody on the possibility that the neighbor murdered his wife: “I don’t understand why you’re not more fascinated with this! I mean, we could be living next door to a murderer!” “New York is a melting pot! I’m used to it!”

Manhattan

EYAWTKA WOODY ALLEN Woody on NYC: “He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Uh, no. Make that ‘He romanticized it all out of proportion.’ To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

This film — also known as The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue and Don’t Open the Window! — was originally commissioned as a colour rip-off of Night of the Living Dead. But in the hands of Spanish auteur Jorge Grau, it became one of the best-looking and most entertaining

Last Mountain, The

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION — SUNDANCE 2011 Corporate giant Massey Energy makes billions blasting the Appalachians and extracting coal. In return, the people who live there got 2.8 billion gallons of toxic sludge, and a cancer epidemic. Now, with only one mountain left, they’ve decided to fight back. This

Larry Crowne

Co-written by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and director/star Tom Hanks, Larry Crowne takes a page from Rodney Dangerfield’s book, sending Hanks’ middle-aged schlub back to college (on a scooter!), where he meets and falls in love with Julia Roberts — and yes, gets some respect.

Kung Fu Panda 2

Jack Black returns as the martial arts ursine in this “fleeter, funnier… sequel [that] delivers a bevy of super-powered set pieces that are dexterous and delirious.” (Village Voice) With Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman and even Jean-Claude Van Damme!

Husbands and Wives

EYAWTKA WOODY ALLEN Woody on what marriage is up against: “It’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to sh*t. That’s my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica.”

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION — FANTASIA 2010 Ladies and gentlemen, this documentary motion picture, which examines the life and times of a true pioneer of independent filmmaking, and “evokes a bygone world of hustling, flimflam moviemaking.” (Village Voice), contains scenes which under no circumstances should be viewed by anyone

Forks Over Knives

We predict a run on the Lansdowne Farmers Market after we show this impassioned plea for a shift away from meat and processed foods to a plant-based diet that can apparently prevent high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. “If Food Inc. didn’t scare you off red meat, Forks over

Front, The

EYAWTKA WOODY ALLEN | SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS Martin Ritt (Hud, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) directs Woody (in a rare acting-only gig) as a McCarthy-era nebbish who sells scripts on behalf of blacklisted TV writers in this satire by Walter Bernstein (Fail-Safe, The

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