Friday Mar 25 to Thursday Mar 31, 2016

FILMS SHOWING Friday March 25 to Thursday March 31

Reel Paddling Film Festival - World Tour 2016

Thurs. Mar. 24, 7:30pm. Tickets on sale now via Eventbrite. Limited tickets ($18) at the door. Door prizes! The 11th annual Reel Paddling Film Festival showcases the world's best paddling films to audiences in Canada, United States and around the world. The festival inspires more people to explore rivers, lakes and oceans, push physical and emotional extremes, embrace the lifestyle and appreciate the heritage of the wild places we paddle.

Knight of Cups

14A

"This film is an invitation to pay attention to life. If there's a better film this year, get ready for a very good year." - San Francisco Chronicle

“There’s something at once vividly familiar and strikingly different about Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups,” a feverish plunge into the toxic cloud of decadence swirling around a Los Angeles screenwriter gone to seed.

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The Lady in the Van

"Wonderfully funny, terribly touching and a vehicle for the boundless gifts of Maggie Smith." - Wall Street Journal

"It's 16 years since Maggie Smith last played cantankerous Mary Shepherd in Alan Bennett’s hit play about his real-life nuisance neighbour. Since then the veteran actress has carefully honed the art of the acidic one-liner in Downton Abbey and two 'Marigold Hotel' films.

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The Little Prince

Based on the beloved fable by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. "This first feature screen animation of 'The Little Prince' is a pleasure to behold." - Toronto Star

"The Little Prince, a delightfully and beautifully animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved 1943 novella, is a whimsical journey in favour of following dreams and finding life’s true loves – a film for young audiences as well as for the oldies who’ve lost their way.

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Risen

14A

Joseph Fiennes leads a top-notch cast in 'Risen,' "a clever, evocatively-told twist on the crucifixion story." - Toronto Sun

"A kind of Biblical detective story, with an unlikely dash of Jason Bourne-style action, Risen explores the mystery of what happened to Christ’s body, as witnessed through the eyes of a worldly Roman tribune, Clavius (Joseph Fiennes).

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Brooklyn

Nominated for 3 Oscars, incl. Best Film & Actress. "A superb, emotionally turbulent account of a young Irishwoman's attempt to become an American in the early 1950s." - Hollywood Reporter

"The Lacey women, wrote Irish novelist Colm Toibin in his 2009 book BROOKLYN, could do everything, 'except say out loud what it was they were thinking.' In John Crowley’s lovely film made from the novel, Saoirse Ronan ('Atonement') provides a master class in showing, not saying, what her character Eilis Lacey is thinking.

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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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The Big Short

14A

5 Oscar Nominations: Incl. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor. "'The Big Short' will affirm your deepest cynicism about Wall Street while simultaneously restoring your faith in Hollywood." - A.O. Scott

"Based on a best-selling book by Michael Lewis about folks who anticipated the financial crisis of 2008, 'The Big Short' is the film that 'The Wolf of Wall Street' wanted to be.

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Where to Invade Next

14A

In his documentary 'Where to Invade Next,' Michael Moore travels to other countries to find values once embraced in America.

"He is provocative. He preaches. He often cherry-picks data to justify his conclusions. But there is a reason Michael Moore is the most successful documentary-maker on the planet: he can drive home a palatable message in hugely entertaining and accessible fashion.

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Born to be Blue

14A

"'Born to Be Blue' serves as an honest and heartfelt ode to not only Chet Baker, but those who revel in the occasional highs and neverending lows that overwhelm the pursuit of art." - Consequence of Sound

“Ethan Hawke makes a riveting Chet Baker in this free-flowing bio

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The Witch

14A

"For anyone seeking an intelligent, atmospheric American horror story reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne and the Brothers Grimm, "The Witch" is the kind of pure movie magic that sends chills up the spine." - San Jose Mercury

"A horror masterpiece" - Globe & Mail

In this exquisitely made new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling in the New England wilderness circa 1630.

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Embrace of the Serpent

14A

Oscar Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. "A blazingly original, heartbreaking, meditative, and strange journey into the heart and soul of the Amazonian rain forest."

Free screening presented by Laurier Wellbeing in Film Forum

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Friday Mar 25 to Thursday Mar 31, 2016