Movies
Crime Wave
Paizs quest to create the greatest colour crime movie ever showcases the same off-kilter Winnipeg charm that he would later bring to the many Kids in the Hall sketches he directed. CANADIAN CULT REVIEW INDIE 16 MM DOUBLE BILL with Skip Tracer | double bill tickets $10 | Learn more
Ip Man 2
OTTAWA PREMIERE | SPECIAL SNEAK PEAK Were living up to our billing as Ottawas home of stuff you wont see anywhere else with this special preview of the second chapter of the tale of martial arts grandmaster Ip Man, this time focusing on his 1949 emigration to Hong Kong and
9th Anniversary of 9/11: End Of Conspiracy Theory, A New Beginning In Consciousness
Speaking live, ex-intelligence operator David Stonewell shares his knowledge of the international preparations and black ops that initiated the global War on Terror all from sources cleared by the Intelligence Information Rating System illustrated by over 100 slides. September 6 | $5 | Free for students, fire, ambulance
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated
Less a film than a global art project, NOTLD:R divides Romeros classic into dozens of pieces, with each section re-created by a different animator, working in a different style or medium (including sock puppets, Barbie dolls, cat-and-mouse cartoons and more). The result is drop-dead gorgeous.
Jacob’s Ladder
If you’re frightened of dying, and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. If you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
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)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Watch out, Tommy Wiseau! The newly-anointed best worst movie finally wings its way to the Mayfair to claw at the eyes of Ottawa audiences. If this is a joke, its the Kennedy assassination of jokes. (Vice Magazine)
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The
SUNDAY NIGHT GEEK NIGHT When unemployed teacher Steve Wiebe sets out to break the world-record high score on Donkey Kong, glory seems just a flaming barrel away until he confronts the current record holder, the egomaniacal Billy Mitchell. Truth doesnt any stranger than this screen-killing documentary.
How To Train Your Dragon
This one may surprise you: it has a kinetically dreamy, soaring-through-the-air effervescence. On some level, though, it’s just the sweetly simple tale of a boy and his dog… [reminiscent of] the stirring bond you remember from Old Yeller. (Entertainment Weekly)
Great Escape, The
THE MAYFAIR GOES TO WAR Colonel Von Luger, it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape. If they cannot escape, then it is their sworn duty to cause the enemy to use an inordinate number of troops to guard them, and their sworn duty to harass