Movies
Love Ranch
OTTAWA PREMIERE Hackford, who directed the Oscar-winning biopic Ray, here (slightly) fictionalizes the real lives of the husband and wife (Joe Pesci and, improbably enough, Helen Mirren) who were at the centre of Nevadas legalized prostitution industry in the 70s. Provocative, highly entertaining and surprisingly touching. (Box Office Magazine)
Zombie Holocaust (a.k.a. Dr. Butcher M.D.)
When some luckless Americans land on a mysterious island, two of Italys favourite film genres collide as our heroes find themselves up against both the obligatory mad scientist and his army of zombie slaves and the islands resident tribe of cannibals. Bet you cant eat just one. English subtitles.
Agora
In fourth-century Alexandria, Christianity confronts paganism, freedom beckons to the enslaved, and at the centre of it all stands the scientist, philosopher, astronomer and teacher Hypatia (Rachael Weisz). Amenábars historic epic is a movie about ideas, a drama based on the ancient war between science and superstition. (Roger Ebert)
Eclipse (Twilight)
Whats your pleasure? Sexy, shirtless, pining werewolves? Sexy, sulky, chaste vampires? Sexy, depressed, conflicted teenagers? No need to choose: this movies got em all plus a heaping helping of angst on the side!
Babies
Set your biological clock ticking with this doc that follows four babies (three girls and a boy who live very different and very similar lives in Namibia, Mongolia, San Francisco and Tokyo) from birth to their first words and steps. They grow up so fast.
Slaughterhouse Five
THE MAYFAIR GOES TO WAR It’s time for me to be dead for a little while. And then live again.
Vinyl Frontier, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE | SUNDAY NIGHT GEEK NIGHT At the dawn of the 21st century, renegade toy designers, bored with the shopping-mall G.I. Joe status quo, boldly remixed and reassembled the toys of their parent’s generation. Birthing a new format of toy and medium of artistic expression, they were the first
Colour of Munny, The
August 29, Ottawa’s resident hip(ster) toy store, Lost Marbles, presents its third annual showcase of local artists takes on Kidrobot’s designer vinyl art toy, Munny. Expect live art, prizes for the best Munnies, beer and tons of giveaways all leading up to the Canadian premiere of the feature doc
Dixie Dynamite
This month, Saturday Night Sinema sets it off with this story from the team behind Race with the Devil of two sisters who enlist motor-cycling drunk Warren Oates in a campaign of explosive revenge after the death of their pa in a moonshine war. (Time Out London) You
Bridge On The River Kwai, The
THE MAYFAIR GOES TO WAR You and Colonel Nicholson, you’re two of a kind, crazy with courage. For what? How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules when the only important thing is how to live like a human being.