Movies
Waiting For Superman
Following a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits rather than encourages academic growth, director Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) methodically dissects the flawed American school system and its seemingly intractable problems. Grade A stuff.
Social Network, The
The director of Fight Club and writer of The West Wing make an unlikely team but no less unlikely than the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and the youngest billionaire in history. If this film were a status update, Id click the Like button.
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Silent Night, Deadly Night – 40th Anniversary! Holiday Season Horrors! – Screening on December 6, 12! Advance tickets now available for Silent Night, Deadly Night! Santa Claus is coming to town…and this time he’s got an axe! Community leaders tried to stop it. The P.T.A. fought to ban it.
Rockland
OTTAWA PREMIERE SPECIAL DONATION SCREENING FOR THE SALVATION ARMY–BRING YOUR OLD TOYS TO DONATE! When their arts centre is threatened with demolition by a greedy developer, a group of teens band together and stage a talent show to save it in this Josie-and-the-Pussycats-meets-School-of-Rock family comedy which features original songs
Labyrinth
LOST MARBLES GEEK NIGHT With Labyrinth, Jim Henson dreamt of moving beyond the Muppets to explore new worlds of puppetry and filmmaking and with George Lucas and David Bowie helping him, success seemed certain. Alas, audiences didn’t show, and critics didn’t praise. But they should have. Come see why.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The late, great John Hughes wrote this, the third Griswold family misadventure. This tinsel-trimmed installment finds Chevy Chase dreaming of using his year-end bonus to buy a swimming pool, and attempting to organize the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f-ing Kaye. It doesnt go so
The American
Since Out of Sight, George Clooney has produced perhaps the most diverse and worthwhile body of work of any movie star of our era. This time, he’s an assassin on the verge of retirement, who tempts fate by stepping from the shadows for romance. (Happiness, bang, bang, shoot, shoot?)
VHSundays
Not on film. Not on TV. Not on DVD. Some movies only exist on videotape, so the last Sunday of every month, were reaching into our VHS collections and putting lost, forgotten and overlooked films back where they belong: on our screen. So whats in the VCR? Youll have to
EVOL
OTTAWA PREMIERE From the makers of the breakout hit Jamie and Eddie: Souls of Strife comes this tale of bodyguard with a choice to make: does he protect the sons of his deceased boss? Or kill them for their $3,000,000 in life insurance which names him as sole beneficiary?
RoboGeisha
OTTAWA PREMIERE Rotten Tomatoes called the preview for RoboGeisha 2009s Most Insane Trailer, which is predictable when you team 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!