Movies
Mid-August Lunch
When fifty-something bachelor Gianni (who lives with his mother) reluctantly agrees to look after his landlords elderly mother plus three other aged women over a holiday long weekend, the lesson is this: in mid-August, the days may be getting shorter, but its still summer. English subtitles.
Last Airbender, The
Just to be clear, this film was shot in 2D; the 3D version was engineered after the fact to cash in on the 3D craze. So, in showing the 2D version, were actually honouring Shyamalans original vision for his adaptation of the anime-inspired Nickelodeon fantasy series. What a twist!
Cyrus
John (John C. Reilly) meets the woman of his dreams (Marisa Tomei). Then he meets her son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill), who thinks threes a crowd. The Duplasses’ slightly sluggish, low-budget, mumblecore style allows this story to flower as both light-fingered lark and drama of suspenseful dysfunction. (Entertainment Weekly)
American Grindhouse
This sprawling but amusing CliffsNotes-like history of various disreputable subgenres (Variety) features all your fave-sploitation filmmakers: Larry Cohen, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, John Landis, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Fred Olin Ray, Fred Williamson, Robert Forster, Daivid Hess and more and not a Tarantino in sight!
Get Low
Hermit Felix (Robert Duvall in a role that mirrors his first, as Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird) asks funeral director Frank (Bill Murray) to arrange and hold Felixs funeral before he dies. Business is down (its the Great Depression), so Frank agrees. Based on a true story,
I Am Love
The Zelig-like charm of Tilda Swinton is at the centre of this portrait of Milanese family torn apart by a forbidden love that, as the title suggests, overwhelms the senses and sense of those caught up in it. Lavish and formidable with a power to frighten and seduce.
Ramona and Beezus
Based on Beverly Clearys kid-lit classics about imaginative, mischievous nine-year-old Ramona Quimby and her teenage sister Beatrice (aka Beezus), Ramona and Beezus respectfully updates its source material, while remaining a sweet salute (Roger Ebert) to a simpler time.
Red Scorpion
This month, Saturday Night Sinema does some soul-searching (which lead to soul-ass-kicking) as Joseph Zito (Invasion U.S.A.) directs Dolph Lundgren as a Russian agent ordered to assassinate a rebel leader. Morally conflicted, he joins the rebels, gets a scorpion tattoo and heats up the cold war.
Savage Beach
Andy Sidaris returns to the Mayfair with another titillating tale of hard-hitting action and gratuitous nudity! Join two of the most buxom and beautiful DEA agents you’ll ever see (Playboy playmates Donna Speir and Hope Marie Carlton) on a hunt for Japanese gold on Savage Beach!
Poor No More
They tell us, “If you work hard, things will get better.” But the working poor know the truth. There are countries where people do not have to beg, housing is affordable and university is free. Why not here? Presented by the Centretown Community Heath Center/Ottawa Poverty Reduction Network. Admission: your