At the Princess, Jan 27 - Feb 2 (+ Cannes Lions Ad Fest Contest!)

The Cannes Lions Ad Fest just seems to get better and better. Every year for the past 30 years, Princess patrons have flocked to the Original to see the 'best of the best' commercials from around the world. 'The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity' is the Olympics of advertising, and from it, we get to see this enormously entertaining curated collection of the year's award-winners. These are the funniest, sexiest, most clever and creative ads of 2016. It also gives us a unique snapshot of the year and we guarantee: you'll never see ads for treadmills or warehouse furniture here! Scroll to the bottom of the newsletter for a chance to win a pair of passes to '2016 Cannes Lions Ad Fest.'

On one hand, marketing razzle-dazzle; on the other, 'Silence'. This week at the Twin, we open Martin Scorsese's long-awaited dream project and the film that completes his religious trilogy. Some critics have called it a career summation for him; many critics cried "snub!" when the film didn't get the Oscar attention they felt it deserved (it received only one nomination, for Best Cinematography). We were sorry Annette Bening didn't get the Best Actress nomination she so richly deserved for '20th Century Women' but (somewhere) her character, Dorothea, is philosophically shrugging her shoulders saying, "no big deal" (this gem of a film did receive a nomination for Best Original Screenplay). Our other films --Fences, Jackie & Moonlight-- all received plenty of Oscar attention. Tommy Wiseau's The Room, which we play regularly, will never, --in a million years or even in an alt-universe-- ever get any kind of golden statuette... except in the hearts of its many admirers! The Room plays this Thursday.