At the Princess Dec 16 - 22 (& 'A Man Called Ove' Winners!)

FILMS SHOWING Friday Dec 16 to Thursday Dec 22

New at the Twin this week is NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, a stylish thriller-within-a-thriller about love, betrayal and revenge, written and directed by Tom Ford ('A Single Man') and starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. A mesmerizing film with an opening scene that --we promise-- you won't soon forget! Also new is Mel Gibson's "come-back" film, praised by critics and audiences alike, HACKSAW RIDGE.

We're excited about our exclusive premiere of the Swedish smash-hit, A MAN CALLED OVE. The book it's based upon is an international best-seller, and as promised, we have 5 copies to give away to the people who correctly guessed that the name of the dog in the trailer is "Prince." The list of randomly selected winners can be found at the bottom of this newsletter!

Speaking of winners, we're getting into awards season. The Golden Globe nominees were announced a few days ago, and MOONLIGHT nabbed 6 nominations, including Best Picture & Best Director. It also was named Best Picture of 2016 by the Toronto Film Critics. As expected, Joel Edgerton & Ruth Negga received Golden Globe nominations for their outstanding performances in LOVING.

Don't miss our annual Food Bank Benefit screening: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Tues. Dec. 20 at 6:30. Free admission with a donation to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Many thanks to our presenting sponsor, The Beat Goes On!

A Man Called Ove

"'It's a Wonderful Life' to the tenth power." - Boston Herald

Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international best selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse --who spends his days enforcing block association rules that only he cares about, and visiting his wife’s grave-- Ove has given up on life.

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Nocturnal Animals

14A

"Tom Ford's first film since 'A Single Man' is another winner, an ambitious high-wire noir thriller with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in an explosive tale of love, violence, and revenge." -Owen Gleiberman, Variety

The latest from fashion icon and 'A Single Man' director Tom Ford tells a story-within-a-story: on one level, you've got a gallery owner (Amy Adams) who receives a violent, disturbing novel in the mail written by her troubled ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal).

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Hacksaw Ridge

18A

"Gibson's forceful comeback is a violent drama about pacifism that succeeds in combining horror with grace." - Hollywood Reporter

Nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. "The horrors of the World War II battlefront are seen through the eyes of a devout, pacifist soldier in the stunning military drama Hacksaw Ridge.

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Moonlight

14A

"A film of rare grace - a tender, compassionate, restrained look at a life lived in the shadows." - Detroit News

Winner of 3 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor & Best Adapted Screenplay. "If you think art should challenge us, then you will embrace writer-director Barry Jenkins' exquisitely crafted drama Moonlight.

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Loving

"There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly — and with as much idealism — as Jeff Nichols’s Loving." New York Times

Oscar-Nominated: Best Actress. "Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) aren’t much different from other married couples struggling to get by in rural Virginia in the 1950s. About the only unusual thing about their relationship, considering the time and place, is that Mildred is black and Richard is white.

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Christine

14A

"Rebecca Hall gives one of the great performances of the year as the title character in Christine, an intense, stomach-churning, unblinking drama." - Chicago Sun-Times

“In dramatizing real-life tragedies, the line between exploitation and empathetic storytelling is a hairline crack. Antonio Campos’ Christine—which tells the story of events leading up to the moment in 1974 when Christine Chubbuck, a 29-year-old Sarasota, Fla., TV news reporter, committed suicide while on the air—is just on the correct side of that crack

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The Eagle Huntress

"'The Eagle Huntress' is all at once an inspiring story for children of all ages to believe that they can do anything, a reflection of the unfairness of gender roles and a rare and unique look at a remote part of the world." - New York Daily News

"It seems impossible to conceive of training wild eagles, with their seven-foot wingspans and razor-sharp talons, yet the Kazakh people of Mongolia have been doing so for centuries. For 13-year-old Aisholpan Nurgaiv, participating in this sacred practice means being the first female in twelve generations of her family to become an eagle hunter.

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