Movies
Two-Lane Blacktop
James Taylor and Warren Oates are on the road, racing West to East for pinks in this, the film Richard Linklater called the purest American road movie ever like a drive-in movie directed by a French New Wave director. It has the most purely cinematic ending in film history. [It
Fighter, The
7 OSCAR NOMINATIONS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE Mark Wahlberg goes to the ropes with an intensely internal performance as boxer Irish Mickey Ward, while Christian Bale comes out swinging as Mickeys crack-addled half brother Dickie in this based-on-a-true-comeback-story. The Fighter, its heart full to bursting, is an emotional powerhouse that comes
Four Lions
OTTAWA PREMIERE A group of incompetent British jihadists try, and repeatedly fail, to organize a terrorist strike in this transgressive, BAFTA-nominated comedy that takes place on the razor edge between ideology and idiocy. The raucously funny, slapdash comedy mixes gallows humor with inspired brilliant gags. (A.V. Club)
Pi
Did you like Aronofskys latest tale of self-destructive obsession, Black Swan? Then you should check out Pi, his first tale of self-destructive obsession, in which a mathematician searches for a formula that will allow him to predict the stock market and finds something much more dangerous.
Planet of the Apes
Astronauts crash land on a planet with an Earth-like atmosphere, but quickly discover that theyre being written by Rod Serling.
83rd Annual Academy Awards Telecast
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Wild One, The
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Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
David Suzuki holds twenty-four honorary degrees, has written forty-eight books, was voted one of the greatest Canadians of all time, hosts the long-running TV series The Nature of Things and is a pioneering environmentalist. Check out this film to learn the rest of the story.
Little Fockers
In the latest (and last?) chapter in the Meet the Parents franchise, the name pun is tossed into the title thanks to the family’s next generation. Director Weitz (American Pie) steps in and (in not quite the way movie fans were hoping) reunites Robert De Niro with Harvey Keitel.
Cockfighter
Saturday Night Sinema presents an example of vintage Grindhouse-era chicken-sploitation as Warren Oates (in a nearly wordless performance) loses everything on a rooster-fight gone wrong, and then slowly builds himself back up, with the Cockfighting Championships as his only goal in life. (Also released under the less smirk-inducing title Born