Movies
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
Search and Destroy
A Vietnam vets post-traumatic stress turns present-traumatic and stressful when the war follows him home to Niagara Falls in this cool revenger from director Fruet (writer, Goin Down the Road, director, Death Weekend). Features Tisa Farrow (sister of Mia). CANADIAN CULT REVIEW VCR/TAX SHELTER DOUBLE BILL with The Brain |
Brain, The
Ironically, the VCR market helped this low-budget film about how television (and giant, alien brains) kill independent thought get made. The Brain mixes familiar genre clichés into a cheese-laden entree that isn’t afraid to laugh along with you. (Canuxploitation.com) CANADIAN CULT REVIEW VCR/TAX SHELTER DOUBLE BILL with Search
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The
Stieg Larsson died before his novels were published, much less adapted to the big screen, so he hasnt seen this indelible tale of sex, murder and revenge. Whats your excuse? English subtitles?