Movies
Sin City
LOST MARBLES GEEK NIGHT Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything, including probably the most aggressively faithful rendering of a comic books aesthetic ever to make it to the big screen.
Salt
This well-seasoned neo-Cold War spy flick casts Angelina Jolie as a possible Russian mole inside the CIA and it works! “Salt is a damn fine thriller. It winds your clock tight and the alarm doesn’t go off for 100 minutes. (Roger Ebert)
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)