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Cult filmmaker Ji-woon Kims kimchi-marinated remix of Leones classic transplants the familiar three-way outlaw rivalry to 1930s Japanese-occupied Manchuria, and fills it with an eye-popping train robbery, followed by a balls-out siege, and then a super-cool heist (AV Club) for starters.
Long Pigs
OTTAWA PREMIERE This mockumentary profile of a cannibalistic killer manages a neat trick, making the most of its low budget and effectively mixing very unsettling horror with clever comedy and media-critical commentary. (Eye Weekly) Whats a long pig, you ask? You are.
Karate, Kid, The (2010)
We at the Mayfair love the original Karate Kid. In fact, the figure standing in our north balcony is a prop from that film a life-sized cutout of Martin Sensei Kove. So if were playing the remake, you know its worth seeing. If it werent, wed have no mercy.
Year of the Carnivore
If youve seen Short Bus, you know why Canadian media darling Sook-Yin Lee couldnt plausibly star in this story of an innocent girls quest to gain some sexual experience, and had to content herself with just writing and directing it.
Iron Man
Lots of rich guys have expensive suits. But Tony Starks is really expensive.
Iron Man 2
So, turns out that creating a more powerful weapon didnt bring about world peace after all. Huh.
Platoon
THE MAYFAIR GOES TO WAR Somebody once wrote: Hell is the impossibility of reason. That’s what this place feels like. Hell.
American Splendor
R.I.P. Harvey Pekar (Oct. 8, 1939-July 12, 2010). His ordinary life was pretty complex stuff.
Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat City Rollergirls
OTTAWA PREMIERE | SUNDAY NIGHT GEEK NIGHT When Seattles Rat City Rollergirls formed in 2004, they played to mostly empty stadiums. Today, they sell 1,500 tickets a month. This elbows-out doc follows the first two seasons of their meteoric rise, as the team bonds, fights, and skates all-out toward the
Short Cuts
Do me a favour, okay? If you stumble across a dead body on your way to the Mayfair to see Altmans sublimely, sprawlingly life-sized adaptation of nine Raymond Carver stories (and one of his poems), dont wait until after the film to report it.