Dec 26 - Jan 2: Let us entertain you over the holidays! Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out & more

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Happy Holidays from all of us at the Playhouse! We thank you for your amazing support of independent cinema in Hamilton, and to all who are giving Playhouse memberships and passes, we thank you for sharing your love of good film with your friends and families. We hope you have a wonderful new year!

Speaking of wonderful, we wanted to let you know that thanks to your generosity, our benefit screenings of It's A Wonderful Life for Hamilton Food Share raised 1050 lbs of food and $324. $1 equals 5 lbs of food, which means that together we donated over two and a half tonnes of food! Wonderful and incredible!

Reminder: Our "TBA" slots from Dec 28 - Jan 1 will be filled with the fabulous whodunnit KNIVES OUT. It's a perfect holiday entertainment!

On Dec 28th we present one show only of The Winter's Tale, featuring Dame Judi Dench in a production from the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company. Seeing Dame Dench on stage is a rare treat, and one simply can never go wrong with Shakespeare. Join us! Another special presentation is Exhibition on Screen's Leonardo: The Works, an exhibition like you've never seen before!

We are thrilled to be presenting over the holidays one of the best movies of the year: Jojo Rabbit. Some of us have already seen it multiple times, it's that good! Winner of the Audience Award at this year's TIFF, a reliable bellwether for Best Picture Oscar. Believe it! Don't miss this one, and if you have seen it already, we think you will enjoy it even more on repeat viewings. Yes, it's THAT kind of movie.

Heads up: if you are planning to see Shia LaBeouf's excellent Honey Boy past January 3, please see it before then as we may have to end its run early. This is still to be confirmed (replacement titles TBA soon).

Right now we are working hard on the next film guide for the Playhouse. Look for the new guide early in the new year! Meanwhile, check out the many great titles now playing. Keep scrolling to see what's on tap (and don't forget, over the holidays we are showing matinees all day every day to keep you busy). Blessings!

Jojo Rabbit

"Taika Waititi knocks it out of der park with the meaningful lunacy of his anti-hate satire, which is equal parts Mel Brooks, Wes Anderson and Waititi’s own whimsical brilliance." - Toronto Star." -

Winner of TIFF 2019 Audience Award. Oscar Winner: Taika Waititi for Best Adapted Screenplay "Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (★★★★★) defies description. It is the story of a young wannabe Nazi named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) who dreams of serving the Führer and daydreams that Adolf Hitler (Waititi) is his best friend.

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Judy

STC

"Renée Zellweger is over the rainbow and out of this world as Judy Garland in "Judy," a sweet, full-hearted tribute to the beloved screen legend's final days." - Detroit News

Nominated! Golden Globe (Best Actress) “Judy isn’t a biopic; it takes place over only a few months, in the final year of Judy Garland’s life. Broke, divorced and deeply in debt in 1968, Garland reluctantly agreed to leave her children and travel to London to perform a series of concerts at a swanky nightclub.

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Harriet

STC

"Harriet is an impassioned, edifying portrait of a remarkable life, and a fitting showcase for the considerable talents of its star, Tony-winning British actress Cynthia Erivo." - Entertainment Weekly

"Harriet Tubman, superhero? In the hands of director Lemmons and Tony-winning actor Cynthia Erivo, the famed Underground Railroad conductor is given a swashbuckling, compelling cinematic treatment that feels like the origin story for one.

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Knives Out

"An entertainment that's as smart, witty, stylish and exhilarating as any movie lover could wish for." - Wall Street Journal

Oscar-nominated! Best Original Screenplay. Daniel Craig leads an all-star cast in this modern, hilarious, constantly surprising take on the classic whodunnit.

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Honey Boy

STC

"In a dazzling high-wire act as actor and screenwriter, LaBeouf lets loose on his own life as a child star and his relationship with his loose-cannon dad, a role he plays himself in a live-wire performance that jumps off the screen." - Rolling Stone

Must end January 3. Based on a screenplay written by Shia LaBeouf while in a rehabilitation program, Honey Boy is a fictionalized drama based on LaBeouf’s life growing up in the spotlight.

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The Winter's Tale

STC

“The Olivier Award winning production of The Winter's Tale starring Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench returns to cinemas. The critically acclaimed production was the first in the hugely successful Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Live season, which was broadcast to cinemas from London's Garrick Theatre over the course of a year in 2015.

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The Two Popes

STC

"What makes "The Two Popes" so delightful, other than the very funny script, is watching two seasoned actors play off each other. Both Hopkins and Pryce illustrate what the craft of acting is really about." - TheWrap

Nominated for 4 Golden Globe Awards (Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Screenplay). "Anchored by two outstanding performances from Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, the film is a triumph of writing as well as unostentatious filmmaking.

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Parasite

14A

"Imagine a high-wire act where the acrobat suddenly leaps to a higher wire, then to another that's higher still. It's the best way I can think of to describe the giddy thrill of watching Parasite, a masterpiece of serial surprises." - Wall Street Journal

Winner of 4 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Feature, Best Original Screenplay). "An exhilarating and furious indictment of class struggle, Parasite might be the masterpiece South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been working toward his entire career.

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Leonardo: The Works

“The prolific Exhibitions on Screen strand takes a step away from its normal practice of surveying specific gallery spaces by assembling a virtual exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings in a way no art gallery – not even the Louvre (currently showing seven) – can manage.

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The Good Liar

14A

“Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren are out to seduce you — and to have great fun pretending to be seduced by each other in Bill Condon’s wonderfully weird thriller. Initially, the mood is all flirtation and classy high jinks.

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The Pollinators

Special presentation

“The Pollinators opens under a predawn thread of red light along a highway near California’s almond orchards. Hundreds of wooden boxes, stacked like dresser drawers on the back of tractor trailers, are surrounded by a soft veil of honeybees. Bob Harvey, a beekeeper at Bob’s Bees, estimates 18,000 honeybee hives or 40 truckloads will arrive that day.

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Uncut Gems

18A

Safdie Brothers Return To The Playhouse!

IT'S BACK AT THE PLAYHOUSE FOR TWO SCREENINGS ONLY!

Winner: Best Actor (Adam Sandler), National Board of Review. Nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards. Adam Sandler gives a terrific, career-best performance as a Manhattan jeweller with a perilous gambling habit in a rollicking, high-energy thriller

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

"Starring Tom Hanks as the cherished children’s television host Fred Rogers, is one of those movies you didn’t know you needed...a movie that's both entertainment and spiritual toolkit - take from it what you need." - TIME Magazine

Oscar-nominated! Best Supporting Actor. Based on a 1998 Esquire profile, this is the story of bitter and troubled journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys, The Americans), who gets tasked with interviewing the world’s most disarmingly kind TV host, Mr. Fred Rogers.

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Dec 26 - Jan 2: Let us entertain you over the holidays! Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out & more