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Powerful: Energy For Everyone
Director David Chernushenko in Attendance Green economy educator David Chernushenko explores where our energy comes from, who controls and profits from it, and what it will take to ensure a safe, reliable energy future and to his surprise discovers that we really do have the “power” to make a
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Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) wakes up after four days in a coma to find that nobody not even his wife remembers him. Thankfully, he remembers how to kick ass, which is key to uncovering the mystery of his identify theft. A diabolically entertaining con game [that] keeps
Tale of Two Sisters, A
Is it too obvious to call this film about siblings who return home after their mothers death to find their father remarried and their house not quite right haunting? Well, it is. This shadowy, slow-burning story of psychosis and the supernatural is by no means a straightforward ghost
Steamboy
19th-century England blows a gasket in this tale from the creator of Akira of a boy inventor who finds himself caught in the middle of a battle over a revolutionary advance in steam technology. A preposterous but engrossing spectacle, fueled by a resource more enduring than steam or
Rabbit Hole
OSCAR NOMINEE BEST ACTRESS Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus) directs Nicole Kidman to her best performance in years (possibly ever) as a woman dealing with the death of her son in this haunting and hypnotic movie [that] blinks back tears in favor of taking on the world,
Powerful: Energy For Everyone
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT EVENING WITH DAVID CHERNUSHENKO Green economy educator David Chernushenko will screen a special, 52-minute version of his sustainable energy doc, followed by a panel discussion on how you can help make renewable energy a reality, after which you can buy DVDs of Powerful: Energy for Everyone, get answer
No Man’s Land
R.I.P. Charlie Sheens career (1974-2010) When rookie cop Benjy Taylor (D.B. Sweeney) goes undercover in to infiltrate a gang of car thieves run by the charismatic Ted Varrick (Charlie Sheen), who will end up WINNING?
Lemmy
OTTAWA PREMIERE What do you want from a rock doc? Sex? Drugs? Rock n roll? In the case of Motörhead front man Lemmy Kilmister, there’s enough of a surplus of all three to power multiple documentaries. (NPR) (Plus, enöugh umlauts tö chöke a Germanic hörse!)
Keoma
Director Castellari (The Inglorious Bastards, 1990: Bronx Warriors) delivers his eulogy for the Spaghetti Western with this tale of a man (Franco Nero) who returns home after the Civil War to find his town controlled by a gang of thugs and, though weary of war, holsters up for one
Jellyfish
WRITERS FESTIVAL SCREENING | CAMERA DOR WINNER | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE Salman Rushdie called Etgar Keret “the voice of the next generation,” and it seems the jury at Cannes agreed. They awarded Jellyfish Kerets directorial debut about the intertwining lives of the three very different Israeli women in Tel