Movies
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
Ingredients
It started with chefs who formed relationships with nearby farmers. But now, the slow- and local-food movements are something much larger, and are responding to a much larger crisis. This documentary introduces the people including restauranteur Alice Watersdetermined to bring real food back to the table and health back
Horrible Bosses
From the director of The King of Kong (Best. Documentary. Ever.) comes a very dark comedy (that had to fight to get its R-rating in the US) about a trio of friends who conspire, Strangers-on-a-Train-style, to murder their horrible bosses. A very entertaining mixture of black comedy, colorful energy, and
From the Back of the Room
OTTAWA PREMIERE Covering 30 years of female involvement in the DIY punk/Riot Grrrl scene, this is a lovely and important film about people who’ve fallen in love with music, and why they’ve chosen to pursue that path despite a seemingly endless array of obstacles.” (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) Including interviews
Every Which Way But Loose
How could Clint Eastwood possibly top a run of films in the that included Dirty Harry, High Plains Drifter and The Outlaw Josey Wales? Why, by starring as a laid-back, truck-driving, bare-knuckle prizefighter who takes on all comers with the help of his orangutan sidekick, of course! Any Which Way
Eastern Condors
DRUNKEN MASTERS DOJO The worlds best kung-fu movie also happens to be historys best gun-fu movie. Directed by and starring the most improbable action star ever, the roly-poly dynamo known as Sammo Hung, this story of a daring commando raid into Vietnam to destroy a munitions dump flies high and
Devil’s Double, The
The director of Once Were Warriors returns to tell the chilling true story of the man drafted to be the body double of Saddam Husseins sadistic son, Uday. Starring Dominic Cooper in both roles, this is a film as elegant as it is flamboyant, beautifully designed and gorgeously shot. (Box
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. J.J. Abrams Spielberg homage Super 8 also plays this month.
Circo
One-man film crew and director Schocks documentary takes us behind the scenes at a century-old, family-run traveling circus, and in so doing creates a riveting patchwork of interconnected dramas that include difficult in-laws, arguments about money and familial exploitation, and the wrenching tensions between honoring tradition and forging ones own