Movies
Storytelling Festival presents “You Are Here” w/ Ivan Coyote
Ivan E. Coyote’s multimedia performance You Are Here builds on family legend and hometown nostalgia, capturing the magic of a Yukon town and lamenting the corporate colonization that has crept into even the farthest corners we call home. Accompanied by bluegrass guitar and super-8 footage. Learn more at twentytenfestivalost.wordpress.com
Mutant Girl Squad
OTTAWA PREMIERE | EXTREME ASIA A Japanese high school girl discovers she is a mutant, and goes on the run from government super soldiers in this gory riff on/rip-off of the X-Men formula. Expect unfathomable and hideous superpowers, and of course the requisite oceans of blood. Japanese with subtitles.
Machete
One of Grindhouses fake trailers gets real and gives the great Danny Trejo his first starring role as an ex-Federale with a big knife fetish who launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss. Esta bien.
Reel Rock Tour, The
For the fifth anniversary of their climbing adventure films, Sender Films and Big UP Productions are celebrating by taking you on a global ride like never before. From death-defying treks up the wildest faces in The Alps, to Olympian displays of strength and tenacity on the hardest boulders ever climbed,
Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl
EXTREME ASIA Its a typical high school love triangle, except that two of its participants are a vampire and a Frankenstein’s monster. They love the same guy, so they fight. By the makers of Mayfair faves Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police. Sure to shock and offend! Japanese with subtitles.
Tokyo Gore Police
extreme asia In the Tokyo of the future, its the privatized police force vs. the Engineers, genetically modified killers who can morph their bodies into grotesque weapons. In case youre wondering, yes, it lives up to its title.
Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The
It’s Nic (Ghost Rider) Cage vs. Alfred (Doctor Octopus) Molina as master sorcerer Balthazar Blake recruits a reluctant protégé (Ottawa’s own Jay Baruchel) to help him defend NYC from his arch-nemesis Maxim Horvath, and the forces of darkness.
Robogeisha
EXTREME ASIA Rotten Tomatoes called the preview for RoboGeisha 2009s Most Insane Trailer, which is predictable when you pair the makers of Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police with a title like this. Geisha is Japanese girl. Geisha is beautiful and wild. Geisha is robot! Japanese with subtitles
Pecker
LOST MARBLES GEEK NIGHT | ART IN REVERSE He never realized how far 35 millimeters would take him. Waters cautionary tale of outsider art brought inside follows a teenaged photographer from a Baltimore sandwich shop to New Yorks pretentious art scene, and is undeniably full of grace.
Machine Girl
extreme asia When Japanese schoolgirl Ami loses an arm in a fight with local mobsters, she naturally enough has it replaced with an eight-barrel machine gun and goes out for vengeance (which involves fire hoses of blood, a drill bra and human sushi). So, yeah, not for everyone. Japanese with