Movies
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
Two Evil Eyes
Two of the greatest horror filmmakers of all time tag-team the works of Edgar Allan Poe in this anthology, which sees Romero direct The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar and Argento helm The Black Cat. Featuring Harvey Keitel, Adrienne Barbeau and the FX work of Tom Savini!
Ip Man
OTTAWA PREMIERE | THE MAYFAIR GOES TO WAR Not only was this semi-historical biopic of Yip Man Bruce Lees kung fu master voted the best Asian film at the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival, its received rave reviews on the art house circuit as well. Add action direction by
Splice
If you like early Cronenberg, youll love this film, which shows why Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody should not experiment with human cloning: not because its illegal and ethically questionable, but because theyre just really, really bad parents.