Movies
Girl Who Played With Fire, The
If youre still wondering why Stieg Larssons novels are international bestsellers, and why the films based on them are international blockbusters, this is your chance to find out. And to read English subtitles.
Remnants of a War
PRESENTED BY WORLD INTER-ACTION MONDIAL (WIAM) This fierce, moving documentary tells the stories of people who make their livings finding and dismantling landmines and other explosives left behind by military conflicts between Israel and Lebanon and does so with intense moral and visual clarity. (Village Voice) Admission $10 |
Last Call At The Gladstone Hotel
With this portrait of a hotels transition from flophouse to hipster hangout, the directors have crafted a riveting and extraordinary human portrait of the effects of urban renewal upon the poor and the unintentional roles artists play in the process of gentrification. (Hot Docs) A panel discussion will follow the
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Seeing the newly-buff Jake Gyllenhaall in this big-screen adaptation of the popular videogame (directed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire helmer Newell), I suddenly understand what Heath Ledger saw in him in Brokeback Mountain.
Sin City
LOST MARBLES GEEK NIGHT Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything, including probably the most aggressively faithful rendering of a comic books aesthetic ever to make it to the big screen.
Salt
This well-seasoned neo-Cold War spy flick casts Angelina Jolie as a possible Russian mole inside the CIA and it works! “Salt is a damn fine thriller. It winds your clock tight and the alarm doesn’t go off for 100 minutes. (Roger Ebert)
Rocky IV
Its Rocky vs. Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren)! Apollo Creeds advice: Without some damn war to fight, then the warrior may as well be dead, Stallion! (Undercard: Paulie vs. a robot!)
Rocky III
Its Rocky vs. Clubber Lang (Mr. T)! Apollo Creeds advice: There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! THERE IS NO TOMORROW! (Undercard: Rocky vs. Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan)!)
Land
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, HOT DOCS 2010 Some developers dreams of creating a Nicaraguan Riviera inevitably run into more than a few hitches in the land of the Sandinistas. This engrossing and wryly funny doc introduces viewers to a wealth of colourful figures, from big-talking would-be hoteliers to a
Nighthawks
Its international terrorist Rutger Hauer vs. NY Detectives Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams in this incredibly underrated thriller that DenOfGeek.com called one of the 10 best late night, post-pub movies and which features Stallone in drag! (Plus, the late, great Joe Spinell.)