Movies

Tokyo Gore Police

extreme asia In the Tokyo of the future, it’s the privatized police force vs. the “Engineers”, genetically modified killers who can morph their bodies into grotesque weapons. In case you’re 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 “2009’s 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 York’s 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

Kids Are All Right, The

When two teens seek out their biological father, the family life that their two mothers have built for them is re-defined, and then re-re-defined by his presence. Starring the great romantic triangle of Julianne Moore, Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo. “There isn’t an ounce of inauthenticity here.” (National Post)

Jack Goes Boating

Philip Seymour Hoffman makes his directorial debut, and turns in another amazing performance as Jack, an awkward man whose awkward blind date with an awkward woman is the catalyst for this tale of working-class love, betrayal, friendship, and grace. “A messy, warm-hearted, complicated pleasure of a film.” (Village Voice)

I Spit On Your Grave (2010)

OTTAWA PREMIERE A writer, who was brutalized and left for dead, confronts her attackers in this unrated remake of one of the purest, cruelest revenge films of all time. This is the second film given a zero-star review by Roger Ebert to show at the Mayfair in as many months

Inception

Nolan and company, hot on the heels of the success of The Dark Knight, dreamt up a sci-fi world where corporate spies are able to enter the human mind during sleep. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily.

Fight Club

First rule of Fight Club: you do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club: you do not talk about Fight Club. Third rule of Fight Club: if this is your first time seeing Fight Club, you have to see it at the Mayfair. If you could fight

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