Movies
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
1976. The Canadian prairies. 11-year-old Elizabeth discovers that the life she knows is a lie and sets out to find the one woman she thinks will truly understand her the titular Smoky Mountain Songbird. The film succeeds as a gentle meditation on an adolescent girl’s pubescent confusion. (Exclaim)
Hobo With A Shotgun
LOST MARBLES GEEK NIGHTS | MAY MAYHEM Remember when we showed Treevenge? Well, director Eisener is back at it with the most accurately-titled and authentically grindhouse film to come out of the Tarantino/Rodriguez Grindhouse project. Plus, hobo = Hauer.
Swinging Cheerleaders, The
FRIDAY NIGHT SINEMA Theres no I in team. But, as undercover reporter Kate finds out when she infiltrates her colleges cheerleading squad in this pep rally of a flick from the great Jack Hill (The Big Bird Cage, Foxy Brown), there are potentially several Os.
Rubber
OTTAWA PREMIERE | MAY MAYHEM What it took Stephen King an entire car to do in Christine, writer/director Dupieux does with a single car-part in this utterly unique film about a tire that becomes self-aware and goes on a killing spree. An essay on storytelling and spectatorship infused with
Lincoln Lawyer, The
Sexy lawyer Matthew McConaughey finally meets a client too evil to defend, and decides to dust off his conscience. Ryan Phillippe is not happy about it.
Red Riding Hood
The director of Twilight updates the classic fairy tale for the Twilight generation complete with a beautiful virgin caught between two smoldering hunks and supernatural threats. Enjoy it as a pure romance, or ironically as a plucky, idiotic and almost irresistible movie, which has moments of transcendent silliness [and
Rango
Theres a new sheriff in town, and hes an animated chameleon voiced by Johnny Depp. With a plot cribbed from Chinatown, action to match the most virtuoso sequences from director Verbinskis Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and truly demented sense of humour, Rango is like nothing you’ve ever seen. (Rolling
Hell Driver
OTTAWA PREMIERE | MAY MAYHEM | BENEFIT FOR JAPANESE RECOVERY The director of Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl and Tokyo Gore Police isnt done yet! This time, hes back with his biggest film yet: the epic tale of the thin line that prevents a post-zombie-apocalypse Japan from being overrun by
Small Town Murder Songs
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION: TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL A police officer (Peter Stormare) searches a small Ontario town for a murderer and for redemption from his own violent past in this Coen-brothers-meet-Alice-Munro crime drama that also features Jill Hennessy, Martha Plimpton and the late, great Jackie Burroughs
Limitless
Sexy writer Bradley Cooper takes a drug that helps him finally live up to his full potential, and decides to take the business world by storm. Robert DeNiro is not happy about it.