Jan 2 - 9: The Good Liar, Knives Out, plus rabbits & bees!

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Happy New Year and we hope you all have had opportunities to relax a little and maybe even catch a film or two!? One of our favourite films of the year, Jojo Rabbit, continues at the Playhouse this week with daily showtimes. Today (Jan 2), we open The Good Liar, featuring two greats --Helen Mirren & Ian McKellen-- in an edge-of-your-seat thriller.

Last week we alerted you to the fact we have to end Honey Boy on Jan 3. From Jan 5-9, in Honey Boy's place, we will screen the all-star whodunnit, Knives Out (check our online calendar for exact showtimes).

One show only! Don't miss the special presentation of The Pollinators, a cinematic journey exploring bees, beekeepers and sustainability. Wed. Jan. 8 at 7pm. Keep scrolling for advance tickets.

The new Playhouse Film Guide will be printed next week, so look for it soon. We can tell you that we are opening the highly acclaimed and anticipated Uncut Gems in a Hamilton exclusive run starting Jan 10. Showtimes will be posted soon!

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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2019 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

AKA 'The World's Best Commercials.' The Festival Of Creativity (held in June in Cannes, France) is a mecca for advertising agencies from all over the world. Last year, over 90 nations were represented.

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All My Sons - National Theatre Live

Jan 18 & 19, 1pm. Filmed live from The Old Vic in London and presented in encore screenings at the Playhouse, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Lincoln) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

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Jan 2 - 9: The Good Liar, Knives Out, plus rabbits & bees!