Dec 6 - 12: A24's WAVES opens, Reel Rock 14 Arrives and Parasite Returns! All this week!

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Acclaimed director, Trey Edward Shults' (It Comes At Night) new film, Waves opens this Friday and continues until the 12th. The film's co-star, Sterling K. Brown (This is Us) is being praised for his performance, along with the rest of the cast (including Kelvin Harrison Jr, Luce) in this "shattering story of a Florida family undone by a shocking tragedy." (NY Times). "Waves takes us on a real journey, leaving us breathless but also marvelling at the end." (Toronto Star). Dive in, we say.

Also opening this weekend is the film Frankie, starring the always wonderful, Isabelle Huppert. Huppert plays a famous actress who has gathered friends and family for a weekend retreat in Portugal. Confidences, alliances and liaisons are shared among the entourage, which includes Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson and Greg Kinnear.

The best rock-climbing of the year, captured on film in Reel Rock 14 screens at the Playhouse for one night only on Wednesday (Dec 11) with Gravity Climbing Gym! The Reel Rock Film Tour only comes around once a year, so make sure if you love climbing, adventure and great entertainment you scroll down and get the remaining advance tickets. We are almost sold out! This year's edition of Reel Rock features Alex Honnold (of Free Solo fame) and Tommy Caldwell (of The Dawn Wall) among several other of the world's best climbers. Don't miss it!

We're so excited to bring back Parasite this weekend. This is a film that Hamilton has responded to in a big way, and if you like to see all the Oscar-nominated films, you can be sure that Parasite will be among them. The Playhouse has 7 limited screenings throughout this month, starting Saturday!

Finally, Marriage Story continues at the Playhouse this week. After some huge wins at recent indie award shows, it's now a front-runner at the 2020 Oscars. You'll cry, feel good and feel sad all at the same time with this heart-felt film with some of the best acting you'll see all year.

Our It's A Wonderful Life FREE screening with a donation towards Hamilton Food Share only has 50 seats left, reserve your seat today, before space is gone!

UPCOMING EVENTS

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December 11th - 7:30pm - Reel Rock 14 - World Tour - Hamilton

December 15th & 18th - A Very Die Hard Christmas (2 Die Hard Screenings)

December 16th & 17th - A Christmas Story (2 Screenings, Only)

December 19th - Comic Book Confidential with Live Q&A!

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Waves

14A

“In classical Hollywood cinema, most movies rush forward, like a river or roller coaster, along a steady course toward a certain objective. Not so Trey Edward Shults’ brilliant, audacious third feature, Waves, whose enigmatic title suggests how its visionary young writer-director sets out to challenge our ideas of how and why things happen in life.

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Frankie

“Françoise Crémont — Frankie to her friends — is a famous actress, and she’s dying. For a sense of how she’s handling this development, all you really need to know is that she is played by the gloriously unsentimental Isabelle Huppert.

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Marriage Story

STC

"It's the work of a major film artist, one who shows that he can capture life in all its emotional detail and complexity - and, in the process, make a piercing statement about how our society now works." - Variety

"Marriage Story offers a tricky proposition. Come for the charms of Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson and stay for a thorough evisceration of both.

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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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Reel Rock 14 - Hamilton

Presented by Gravity Climbing Gym

The Reel Rock Film Tour, one of climbing’s greatest celebrations, returns with a new collection of world premiere films. The trailer shows the late Marc-Andre Leclerc soloing high in the alpine, the footage will appear in a film on Leclerc. In The High Road, the powerful and bold Nina Williams tests herself on some of the highest, most difficult boulder problems ever climbed.

The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers’ latest film is a swirling descent into madness that takes the breath away.

"You can almost taste the salt on your lips in the new psychological horror from Robert Eggers (‘The Witch’) that will leave even the sturdiest of sea legs shaking.

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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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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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Western Stars

“Bruce Springsteen steps into the spotlight with Western Stars, a hybrid of concert movie and short film anthology backdropped by John Ford landscapes. Even non-Bruce fans won’t feel Boss-tracised by this intimate showcase of the man and his music.

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Kiki's Delivery Service (Subtitled)

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A Christmas Story

“A Christmas Story is a heart-warming pastiche of snowflakes, Christmas lights and one little boy's quest for the present of his dreams, a Genuine Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle with a Shock-Proof High-Adventure Combination Trail Compass and Sundial Set Right in the Stock.

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Die Hard

18A

Yippee-ki-yay, it's Christmas!

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it.

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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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Dec 6 - 12: A24's WAVES opens, Reel Rock 14 Arrives and Parasite Returns! All this week!