Movies
Rocky IV
Its Rocky vs. Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren)! Apollo Creeds advice: Without some damn war to fight, then the warrior may as well be dead, Stallion! (Undercard: Paulie vs. a robot!)
Rocky III
Its Rocky vs. Clubber Lang (Mr. T)! Apollo Creeds advice: There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow! THERE IS NO TOMORROW! (Undercard: Rocky vs. Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan)!)
Land
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, HOT DOCS 2010 Some developers dreams of creating a Nicaraguan Riviera inevitably run into more than a few hitches in the land of the Sandinistas. This engrossing and wryly funny doc introduces viewers to a wealth of colourful figures, from big-talking would-be hoteliers to a
Nighthawks
Its international terrorist Rutger Hauer vs. NY Detectives Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams in this incredibly underrated thriller that DenOfGeek.com called one of the 10 best late night, post-pub movies and which features Stallone in drag! (Plus, the late, great Joe Spinell.)
OFS presents: Tricks
This month: a double bill of new Polish films concerning fractured family relationships: The Welts and Tricks. Open to OFS members only. Learn more about the films, and how to join Canadas oldest film society at the OFS website: filmfilmfilm.ca.
OFS presents: Welts
This month: a double bill of new Polish films concerning fractured family relationships: The Welts and Tricks. Open to OFS members only. Learn more about the films, and how to join Canadas oldest film society at the OFS website: filmfilmfilm.ca.
Crow, The
LOST MARBLES GEEK NIGHT Brandon Lees breakout role, as an avian-themed super-avenger who rises from the dead, also that cost him his life how Goth is that?! Based on the Ur-Emo comic by James OBarr.
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)