Friday Dec 18 to Thursday Dec 24, 2015

FILMS SHOWING Friday December 18 to Thursday December 24

Christmas is almost here, which means the Original once again will be hosting our (30th!) annual screening to benefit the Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Admission is FREE with a non-perishable food donation. This year, we'll be presenting the perennial Christmas favourite, 'White Christmas' (Dec 23 at 7:30).

Stumped for holiday gift ideas? Princess Christmas gift packs and passes are ideal for the discerning movie-lover on your list. They may be purchased at the Princess Twin during regular box office hours. The Princess Cafe also sells passes for 'Dinner & A Movie,' another great gift idea! We'll be showing movies every day through the holidays. In fact, December 25th will be a big day as the Princess opens two new awards-season premieres: 'Youth' and 'The Danish Girl' (yes, that season is upon us, too!) Stay tuned, and look out for the new (& revamped!) Film Guide for the Original, set to hit the streets next week!

Spotlight

14A

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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Trumbo

14A

Golden Globe nominated! "Trumbo reminds us of a very dark time in America as well as Hollywood. Important but also hugely entertaining. Bryan Cranston nails it." - Deadline Hollywood

“Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) does sterling work in 'Trumbo' as an eloquent screenwriter who bucked the Hollywood blacklist and triumphed. Catnip for fans of old Hollywood, this highly entertaining biopic focuses on so-called 'swimming pool Communist' Dalton Trumbo, who was once Tinseltown’s highest-paid writer.

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The Martian

"The Martian is fueled by charm, curiosity and the scientific method. It plays like a modernized Kennedy-age fantasy of discovery, space and can-do initiative." - Dallas Morning News

"Houston, we have a winner!

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A Royal Night Out

"There is a sense of enchantment to this title, and an exuberance that emanates off the narrative, as the celebratory mood of the characters extends to the viewer." - The Independent

"It is VE Day and the two young princesses Elizabeth ('A Dangerous Method's' Sarah Gadon) and Margaret ('Diary of a Teenage Girl's' Bel Powley) are 'completely cheesed' at being locked away in a 'ghastly mausoleum' (that is to say, Buckingham Palace) when the rest of Britain is celebrating.

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Room

14A

Winner! Oscar for Best Actress (Brie Larson). "It's a deeply satisfying, profoundly moving adaptation of a popular novel, an all-too-rare occurrence in modern Hollywood." Winner, Golden Globe Best Actress

"Adapted from Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel of the same name, this captivity narrative about a woman and her young son living in a 10-by-10-foot shed is no one’s idea of a feel-good story.

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Legend

14A

In a double role, Tom Hardy excels at playing 1960s London crime lords the Krays.

Slick and riveting crime drama drops us straight into the mid-1960s glory days of London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray.

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White Christmas

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly (Dean Jagger), the boys' commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing.

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Scrooged

"Dickens would approve." - Flick Filosopher

“Whenever Bill Murray is in a film, there's always one simple rule. Give him a decent set-up and you've got yourself a classic. And let's face it, when it comes to good plots, you don't get much better than Chuck Dickens.

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Friday Dec 18 to Thursday Dec 24, 2015