Movies
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
Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, The
Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton team up to save Partons beloved bawdy house in this Oscar-nominated musical thats rollicking, good-natured, a bit spicy and [has] just enough heart. (Variety) Penned by the writer of 9 to 5 and Harold and Maude, this is the nicest little whorehouse you ever saw.
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers – October 1, 4, 5! Advance tickets now available for The Blues Brothers! After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit “The Penguin”, the last of the nuns who raised them in an orphanage. They learn the Archdiocese will
Any Which Way You Can
Clint Eastwood returns as bare-knuckle fighter Philo Beddoe, again with simian sidekick Clyde (played by a noticeably different orangutan) in tow. Philo is ready to retire, but the Mafia, as is so often does, has other plans. How will he get out? Any which way he can. Directed by long
Astro Zombies, The
After being fired by the Space Agency, a disgruntled scientist naturally enough turns to creating a superhuman monster from the body parts of murder victims. Yes, thats a bad idea, but it gets worse, as the beast goes on a murderous rampage. Directed in best Ed Wood-style by the helmer