Friday Mar 11 to Thursday Mar 17, 2016

FILMS SHOWING Friday March 11 to Thursday March 17

Where to Invade Next

14A

In his documentary 'Where to Invade Next,' Michael Moore travels to other countries to find values once embraced in America.

"He is provocative. He preaches. He often cherry-picks data to justify his conclusions. But there is a reason Michael Moore is the most successful documentary-maker on the planet: he can drive home a palatable message in hugely entertaining and accessible fashion.

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The Revenant

14A

Oscar Winner! Best Director, Best Actor. "The ravenously beautiful revenge saga from Alejandro González Iñárritu plays like the meanest Jack London short story imaginable." Filmed mostly in Alberta, British Columbia & the Rockies

"If your goal is gathering beaver pelts in the 19th century, you could hardly have a better guide than frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio). A man of few words but formidable skills, Glass knows his way around the Rockies. But even he has his limitations.

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The Lady in the Van

"Wonderfully funny, terribly touching and a vehicle for the boundless gifts of Maggie Smith." - Wall Street Journal

"It's 16 years since Maggie Smith last played cantankerous Mary Shepherd in Alan Bennett’s hit play about his real-life nuisance neighbour. Since then the veteran actress has carefully honed the art of the acidic one-liner in Downton Abbey and two 'Marigold Hotel' films.

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Only Yesterday

Re-voiced 1991 Studio Ghibli classic gets a long-awaited North American release

“Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday is a gentle but poignant tale about a 27-year-old Tokyo office worker who embarks on a voyage of self-discovery while on holiday in the countryside.

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Hail, Caesar!

The Coen brothers deliver a gorgeously crafted romp through vintage Hollywood in this hilarious and thoughtful entertainment.

"It couldn’t have been easy for the Coens to just be silly again, especially after such recent soulful triumphs like Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) and A Serious Man (2009). God love ’em for insisting on it: Hail, Caesar! weds the backstage Hollywood shenanigans of their 1991 gem Barton Fink to a more manic pace.

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Spotlight

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Winner! Oscar for Best Picture. "A remarkably assured and tight retelling of the Boston Globe's investigation into the Catholic Church's legacy of child abuse and cover-ups." - Globe & Mail

"Spotlight is a masterpiece. Director Tom McCarthy’s drama embraces both great cinema and even better journalism as it chronicles a Boston Globe investigative team’s real-life expose on child abuse by local priests and the Catholic Church cover-up that followed. Not only is it an amazingly crafted movie, it’s an important one as well.

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Rams

STC

"Rams is a gorgeous, tender and unexpectedly moving film about the most unlikely of subjects: sheep farming in the northern valleys of Iceland." - Times [UK]

Winner - Cannes Film Fest - Un Certain Regard Award

“Gummi and Kiddi live next door to each other in a secluded Icelandic valley. Both are sheep farmers, but neither has spoken to the other for four decades, despite their being brothers. Then comes a suspected outbreak of scrapie, a fatal degenerative disease that affects the nervous system of sheep and goats.

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Brooklyn

Nominated for 3 Oscars, incl. Best Film & Actress. "A superb, emotionally turbulent account of a young Irishwoman's attempt to become an American in the early 1950s." - Hollywood Reporter

"The Lacey women, wrote Irish novelist Colm Toibin in his 2009 book BROOKLYN, could do everything, 'except say out loud what it was they were thinking.' In John Crowley’s lovely film made from the novel, Saoirse Ronan ('Atonement') provides a master class in showing, not saying, what her character Eilis Lacey is thinking.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

March Break Film Fest. **Note! Special pricing** "'The Force Awakens' is the Star Wars movie fans have been waiting for. It’s also the best movie of 2015." - Toronto Star

"'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' was already destined to become the movie event of the year, but few could have predicted this: The seventh installment in the series, started by George Lucas in 1977, is the best 'Star Wars' yet and one of the best films of 2015.

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The Peanuts Movie

March Break Film Festival! All seats $5. "An entertaining combination of humor and tenderness, 'The Peanuts Movie' isn't just an all-ages crowd-pleaser. It's the perfect first feature film for a preschooler." - Washington Post

"The Peanuts gang amusingly reunite for their first feature-length animated adventure in 35 years.

"You did it, Charlie Brown!

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Hotel Transylvania 2

March Break Film Festival! All seats $5. "A clever and funny animated romp that kids and adults will enjoy." - The Herald

Now that Dracula (Adam Sandler) has opened the Hotel Transylvania's doors to humans, things are changing for the better; however, Drac is secretly worried that his half-human grandson, Dennis, isn't showing his vampire side. So, while Mavis and Johnny are away, Drac enlists his friends to help him put the boy through a "monster-in-training" boot camp.

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Norm of the North

March Break Film Festival! All seats $5 "Norm has oodles of charm, a razor-sharp wit and pacing that should keep even preschoolers attentive." - Boston Herald

Norm (Rob Schneider) is an Arctic polar bear who doesn’t eat meat or hunt like other bears. And unlike his Arctic cohabitants — he’s upset to find that there’s no more room for human tourists in the Arctic. Norm simply doesn’t fit in.

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La Famille Bélier

14A

" It's a real family crowd-pleaser that's well worth seeking out." - Radio Times

“Paula is a spunky 16-year-old with a lot more chores than most; as the only hearing person of the Béliers, she has to frequently act as a go-between for her parents, the dairy farmers Rodolphe and Gigi and her younger sibling, Quentin.

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La guerre des tuques (2D)

French only screening. No English subtitles. Winner of the Golden Screen Award (highest grossing film in Canada)

“For the schoolkids in the mountain village where the animated action of Snowtime! unfolds, winter break is a time for war games. It’s either that or succumb to boredom.

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Our Loved Ones

STC

French Film Showcase. Nominated, Best Picture, Canadian Screen Awards

“Montreal-based filmmaker Anne Emond amply fulfills the promise of her first feature, the sexually charged two-hander “Nuit #1,” with “Our Loved Ones,” a more de

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2015 Cannes Lions Ads International Festival of Creativity (aka: World’s Best Commercials)

14A

Perennial Princess Audience Fave!

"The world’s best tv and cinema ads are chosen each year in Cannes, France. In May, it’s home to the most famous film festival on the planet. Then in June, it plays host to the Cannes International Festival Of Creativity. Over 4000 film and video commercials from dozens of nations are submitted to the judges.

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Friday Mar 11 to Thursday Mar 17, 2016