Movies
Daydream Nation
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION: TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL First-time director Goldbach spent six years on this tale of a city girl (Kat Dennings, Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist) caught in a love triangle with her teacher and her classmate and his laboring has not gone to waste this film
Mars Needs Moms
Based on the book by Bloom County creator Berkeley Breathed, this film (for the plot, see the title) finally puts Robert Zemeckis motion-capture animation (as seen in Beowulf and A Christmas Carol) to its proper use, producing an entertaining, accomplished movie that shows off what its signature technology can do.
Chocolat
RELAY FOR LIFE BENEFIT What could be sweeter? You get to see this indulgently romantic, Oscar-nominated tale of a woman whose chocolate shop helps her unwrap a small towns sensual nature and seduce Johnny Depp. And you get to help “The Super Heroes” Relay for Life team raise money
Karate-Robo Zaborgar
OTTAWA PREMIERE | MAY MAYHEM | BENEFIT FOR JAPANESE RECOVERY The director of Mutant Girl Squad and RoboGeisha isnt done yet! This time, hes got a bigger budget than ever, and hes using it to do a big-screen adaptation of the popular 70s Japanese TV series about a secret agent
Your Highness
This sword-and-sorcery-and-slackery comedy from Danny McBride (Eastbound and Down, The Foot Fist Way) is awfully vulgar fun when it works, which is much of the time And, seriously, where else are you going to see [Academy-Award winner] Natalie Portman with a severed Minotaur penis thrust in her face? (Austin Chronicle)
Does This Canoe Make Me Look Fat?
FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE What happens when a group of seven very different women all with limited outdoor experience but great senses of humour heads out on a wilderness adventure in Northern Ontario? And will it make them look fat? If the film doesnt answer those questions to your
Spirit of the Marathon
FUNDRAISER FOR THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA More than a sports movie, Spirit of the Marathon follows five runners stories of perseverance and personal achievement as they prepare for and run the Chicago Marathon. A 42-km run has never felt better. All tickets $10 or 3/$25
I Saw The Devil
OTTAWA PREMIERE | MAY MAYHEM Heads roll literally when a special agent goes looking for some very personal justice after a serial killer (Min-sik Choi, star of Oldboy) murders the agents fiancé. An operatically violent revenge fantasy thats fully aware of its lapses into absurdity (NY Times) from
Adjustment Bureau, The
A group of mysterious men with stylish hats try to keep Matt Damon from the woman he loves in this thriller (based on a short story by Philip K. Dick and directed by the writer of Oceans Twelve and The Bourne Ultimatum). What they dont count on is Damons ability
1st Annual Tickle Me Ottawa Film Festival
The Tickle Me Ottawa Film Festival is all about the funny! Celebrating the people that make us laugh, giggle, titter and guffaw, this first installment of the festival showcases short films from around the world and you get to vote for your favourite film and pick the festival winner!