Jan 20-26: Empire of Light; Skinamarink, "the scariest horror film in a generation" and more!

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Olivia Colman gives the performance of her career in EMPIRE OF LIGHT. Starts Friday!

Tickets on Sale now!

Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, from Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes.

"EMPIRE OF LIGHT shines as one of the year’s best films with an incredible performance from Olivia Colman, stirring images by master cinematographer Roger Deakins and a moving original score." - Hollywood Reporter

"Olivia Colman dazzles in EMPIRE OF LIGHT, writer-director Sam Mendes' ode to movies, melancholy, and friendship." - Metro Weekly


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Come see why the new Canadian indie horror movie, SKINAMARINK, is being called "the scariest horror film in a generation"!

Limited engagement: Get tickets!

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.

"A 100-minute nightmare that helps to demonstrate how vital horror movies can be at a time when the rest of the film world is too scared to try anything new." - IndieWire

"A one-of-a-kind film." - Los Angeles Times

"Quiet horror at its finest. ‘Skinamarink’ isn’t scary because of what it depicts. It’s scary because it already knows that our imagination will do half of the work." - Rolling Stone


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AFTERSUN is one of the most acclaimed films of the year, loved by critics and audiences alike.

Jan 21, 23-26

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't, in Charlotte Wells' superb and searingly emotional debut film.


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Edward is back, Jacob is mad, and Bella continues to be a magnet for danger! See ECLIPSE on the big screen!

Playing Jan 20 & 22 only!

As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.


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Don't miss Cate Blanchett's Golden Globe-winning performance in TÁR.

Jan 20 - 25

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.

"Grappling with what it means to be an artist in the modern era has seemingly brought the best out of both Field and star Cate Blanchett, who has unquestionably delivered the performance of a lifetime." - Empire Magazine


OPENING JAN 27!

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Nominated for Best Cinematography at The Academy Awards!

Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, from Academy Award®-winning director Sam Mendes.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"The film aims for the darker recesses of our subconscious and catches us where we are most vulnerable in ways that few horror films do." - The Daily Beast

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"The movie belongs to Blanchett, in a turn so exacting and enormous that it feels less like a performance than a full-body possession." - Entertainment Weekly

Nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cate Blanchet)

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"An assured, aching, vibrant debut by Wells, 'Aftersun' is a shattering remembrance of a father by his daughter." - Rogerebert.com

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Prepare for a solar eclipse with a one-night only interactive screening of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse!

Interactive! Cheer, chat, and pick your side: Team Edward or Team Jacob. 

No screenings currently scheduled.

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A reclusive English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.

Nominated for 3 Academy Awards: Actor in a Leading Role (Brendan Fraser), Actress in a Supporting Role (Hong Chau), and Makeup and Hairstyling! 

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"An absolutely gorgeous, heartbreaking piece of work. One of the best films of the year." - Rolling Stone

Nominated for 2 Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bill Nighy) and Best Adapted Screen Play!

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Christopher Nolan's space epic on the big screen!

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Limited quantity of posters available at the snackbar for purchase at both screenings! Hand-drawn original artwork by Cloe Wagstaffe. 

No screenings currently scheduled.

In this prequel to the original, a rebel policeman sets up the infiltration of Triad gangs and tries bring down a corrupt cop working for the Triad boss.

In this prequel to Infernal Affairs (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.

 

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Valentine's Screening! Led by energetic performances from Nicolas Cage and Cher, Moonstruck is an exuberantly funny tribute to love and one of the decade's most appealing comedies.

No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta (Cher) accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny (Danny Aiello), than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage). She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"To make a movie so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent." - The Guardian

Celebrate 20 years of The Room! 

“Tommy Wiseau’s The Room may be the first true successor to the Rocky Horror throne.  Wiseau's Johnny is the noblest of boyfriends and most capable of lovers. But none of that satisfies his fiancée Lisa, a wicked Jezebel whose boredom with Johnny manifests in a brazen affair with his best friend.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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With a bracingly irreverent approach to its story and Emma Mackey bringing Brontë vibrantly to life, Emily is a biopic that manages to feel true while taking entertaining creative liberties.

EMILY imagines Emily Brontë’s own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, "Wuthering Heights." Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.

No screenings currently scheduled.

After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.

The life of white-collar New Yorker Peter (Nicolas Cage) seems to revolve solely around making as much money and sleeping with as many women as possible. After a typical night of scouring trendy bars for some action, Peter manages to take home the sexy Rachel (Jennifer Beals), who bites him on the neck while they're in bed. The next day, Peter is certain he is now a vampire.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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