Movies
Alien Vs. Ninja
EXTREME ASIA A fireball filled with aliens falls to earth in feudal Japan. The aliens (classic, Godzilla-style men-in-suits; none of this new-fangled CGI) proceed to tear apart villages and eat villagers until a band of ninja warriors shows up. Thats when the gloriously cartoon-y vs. kicks in. Japanese with subtitles.
Alien
40th Anniversary Screening in honour of Alien Day 2019! Oscar winner: Best Visual Effects! BAFTA Awards: Best Production Design, and Sound Track award winner! After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked
Alice
Alice – Ottawa Premiere the Week of March 25! Advance tickets now available for Alice! A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line. Palm Springs International Film Festival: Director’s To Watch award winner! 3.5/4 Stars!
Algonquin
*DIRECTOR JONATHAN HAYES IN ATTENDANCE Jake, a bored high school teacher, reunites with his estranged father, Leif, who is a once famed but washed up travel adventure writer. Leif offers Jake the chance to co-author what he claims will be his masterpiece; a book about Algonquin Park. When things take
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life-a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells
Albert Nobbs
NOMINATED FOR 3 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST ACTRESS Downtown Abbey meets Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in this tale of a woman (Glenn Close) in 19th-century Dublin who poses as a man so she can find work, and financial security, as a butler. This is such a brave performance by Glenn
Alan Partridge
OTTAWA PREMIERE Steve Coogan’s love-to-hate-him television character finally comes to the big screen! When DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege. *** Steve
Al Purdy Was Here
OTTAWA PREMIERE | JANUARY 27 & 28 This documentary profiles Canadian poet Al Purdy, who first came to prominence in the 1960s with a style of writing that attempted to capture the tenor of modern life. The film includes archival footage of Purdy from television appearances, as well as interviews
Akira
Akira – Wednesday November 27th and Thursday November 28th! A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop. Japanese with English subtitles. On the heels of our presentation of Blade
Ajami
OSCAR NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM This collection of five dramatic stories, which traces the everyday lives of the citizens of Ajami, the religiously mixed community of Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians in heart of Tel Aviv, is, in short emotionally mesmerizing. (Entertainment Weekly)