Movies
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)!
Where’s Officer Tuba?
This month, the Drunken Masters Dojo dares to inquire after the location of super-sized martial arts master Sammo Hung as he plays a tuba-toting police officer determined to avenge his partners murder with help from his partners ghost!
Tourist, The
From the director of The Lives of Others (winner, Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, 2007), this Hitchcock-light mistaken-identity thriller puts Johnny Depp in danger from gangsters, INTERPOL and the irresistible charms of Angelina Jolie.
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Elia Kazan. Tennessee Williams. Marlon Brando. Vivian Leigh. Testosterone. Estrogen. Sweat. Rage. Tragedy. You can get off, but the streetcar never stops running.
Skyline
The nice thing about an alien invasion movie like this is that since it lacks big stars, all bets are off as to which characters will live, and which will die. Delivers all the Saturday night whizz-bang and Sunday morning brain-ripping you could want. (Empire)