Movies
Plastic Planet
OTTAWA PREMIERE Travelling from Tupperware parties to a vast garbage patch in the Pacific to inside our own bodies, this “engaging examination of the environmental and health problems associated with plastic is that rare call-to-action documentary that might rouse viewers to do something.” (Variety)
Never Let Me Go
This adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguros (Remains of the Day) novel casts Keira Knightly, Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) as friends who discover theres a sinister purpose behind their seemingly-idyllic boarding schools existence and their very lives. “Meticulous and devastating.” (Salon)
Megamind
Will Ferrell voices Megamind, a super-villain forced to turn super-hero to save the city he once menaced, in this animated comedy that also features a rogues gallery of celebrity voices, including Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Ben Stiller and J.K. Simmons.
Megamind (EN FRANÇAIS)
What better way to celebrate a day off school than with a matinée at the Mayfair? This is a special French language presentation of the new animated film about a super-villain forced to turn super-hero to save the city he once menaced. Incroyable!
Live and Let Die
Roger Moores first outing as Bond finds the franchise borrowing heavily from one of the most popular genres of the early 70s: Blaxploitation. An unlikely combo? Maybe, but when Bond takes on the honky-hating hordes of heroin kingpin Yaphet Kotto, entertainment is definitely in the cards.
Batman & Robin (1949/B&W)
PRESENTED BY DARK AGE COMICS Not the Schumacher train-wreck! This is a compilation of classic B&W matinée serials, in which the dynamic duo must repeatedly rescue Vicki Vale and prevent evil mastermind The Wizard from obtaining diamonds to fuel a diabolical device. Holy nostalgia!
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
OTTAWA PREMIERE Documentarian Gibney is good with betrayals of public interest and trust (see Taxi to the Dark Side or Who Killed the Electric Car), which makes him the perfect choice to tell the disgraced former NY governor’s tale of “greed, corruption, sex, power, overweening ambition and jaw-dropping hubris.” (Hollywood
Next Three Days, The
Youd think a tough guy like Russell Crowe would be able to break his wrongly-accused wife out of jail all on his own. But according to multiple Oscar-winning writer/director Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash), he needs Liam Neesons help. Who am I to argue?
Whispering City
A reporters interview with a dying actress reveals a story worth killing for in this stylish film noir set in Quebecs capital city. Starring Mary Anderson (from Hitchcock’s Lifeboat). CANADIAN CULT REVUE DOUBLE BILL with Scanners | double bill tickets $10 | Learn more
Seven (1979)
Not to be confused with David Finchers brooding psychological thriller, Andy Sidaris first bullets-and-bikinis epic revolves around a plot by seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii and the seven hitmen sent to stop them. Featuring friend of the Mayfair Martin Kove (The Karate Kid)!