Movies
Carlos
Assayas (Summer Hours, Clean) telling of the story of Venezuelan criminal/revolutionary/terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka The Jackal, is a landmark. Bravura narrative filmmaking on hugely ambitions scale. A spectacular achievement. (Variety)
Inside Job
Just in time for the biggest consumer season of the year, Matt Damon narrates this analysis of the financial crisis of 2008, which cost millions their jobs and homes, and nearly resulted in global financial collapse. From the Oscar-nominated director of No End in Sight.
Tamara Drewe
Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe follows the title character on her return to her hometown, where she gets entangled in love affairs and small-town gossip. From Stephen Frears, two-time Oscar-nominee and director of such diverse work as The Queen and High Fidelity.
Christmas Carol, A
Zemeckis started with live-action movies like Back to the Future, then went half-animated with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and now films live-action movies and animates over top of them, as he does with this EC-Comics-style retelling of Dickens Christmas classic.
Monsters
A reporter and a civilian try to make it back across the Mexican border through a zone where the US military shoots aliens on sight. The catch: the aliens theyre shooting at arent from Tijuana, theyre from outer space. If you liked District 9, check this out.
Zapped!
Saturday Night Sinema returns with “a half-baked, rather retarded parody of Carrie” (NY Times) that reveals what happens when Scott Baio gains telekinetic powers (hint: it involves boobs). PLUS a rare screening of the after-school special Stoned, which reveals what happens when Scott Baio gets high!
Silent Partner, The
Starring Elliott Gould as a teller who figures out Christopher Plummers scheme to rob his bank, The Silent Partner (written by Curtis Hanson, director of L.A. Confidential) is an under-seen and underrated slice of Canadiana. CANADIAN CULT REVUE XMAS CHILLS DOUBLE BILL with Black Christmas |
Black Christmas
Black Christmas – Holiday Season Horrors – 50th Anniversary, 4K Restoration screenings on December 21, 22, 23! Advance tickets now available for Black Christmas! Holiday movies are sentimental and uplifting, but surprisingly devoid of knife murders. Black Christmas – one of the most influential Hitchcockian slashers of all time
Hereafter
Clint Eastwood (the hardest working 80-year-old in Hollywood) returns with his 35th directorial effort, a meditation on mortality and faith in which three people a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy who are touched by death in different ways.
Christmas On Mars
Major Syrtis goes a bit loony as he tries to improve morale in an almost-abandoned colony on Mars by staging a Christmas pageant at which the first colonial child will be born. When an alien arrives, things get even more complicated in this fantastical freak-out from the front-man of The