July 31-Aug 6. First Cow, Summerland, the story of Creem, Kill Bill Vol 1 and more!

Thanks to everyone who has come out for our re-opening week. It's been amazing! We've had wonderful cooperation from all our customers and everyone really understands what COVID-19 safety and compliance is all about. Let's keep up the great work!

On our re-opening night, Playhouse manager Jacob Tutt was interviewed by the long-running CBC Radio program, AS IT HAPPENS. Take a listen to the interview here (Jacob's interview starts at the 10-minute mark on the player.)

Westerns are meant to be seen on the biggest screen possible, so don't miss this chance to see First Cow, playing for four shows only. The Washington Post says, "We might go into a Kelly Reichardt movie thinking we'll be told a story, but we emerge with our consciousness subtly and radically altered." Watch the trailer for First Cow and if you're like us, you'll be getting your tickets ASAP.

July 31-Aug 3. Summerland is a heart-warmer set in England during World War II. Academic researcher Alice Lamb (Gemma Arterton) lives alone in a cottage by the sea, a broken-hearted workaholic since losing the love of her life. When she is forced to take in young Frank (Lucas Bond), an evacuee from London, she soon discovers that there’s more to life than science. 4 shows only! Get tickets now!

If we say "Boy Howdy!" and you see a Robert Crumb-animated beer bottle, then you know Creem magazine. It was wildly irreverent, funny and embodied the true spirit of rock 'n' roll rebellion. Music fans won't want to miss the new documentary that goes behind the scenes of this legendary rag. Two shows only: Aug 1 & 4

Keep scrolling to see the other great films we have on offer this week!

First Cow

PG 13

Kelly Reichardt summons glorious earthy poetry from the raw materials of early American life.

"You can almost taste the dirt in your mouth and smell the smoke on the wind when losing yourself in this quietly powerful nineteenth-century-set frontier tale from director and co-writer Kelly Reichardt (working with Jon Raymond to adapt his own novel ‘The Half-Life’).

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Summerland

Gemma Arterton plays a reclusive writer who rediscovers her romantic side in Jessica Swale’s tender wartime drama. "The film is a surprising gem that delivers a light-hearted compromise between fairy tales and war stories." - Little White Lies

Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed.

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Pulp Fiction

"Tarantino weaves a patchwork of crime film history into something shiny and new. Peppered with great moments eaten up by actors working at the top of their game, Pulp Fiction's witty writing, pop culture-surfing, gleeful amorality, cult tuneology and hyperkinetic energy has redefined the crime genre for the foreseeable future.

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Guest of Honour (Featuring a recorded introduction from Atom Egoyan)

Filmed in Hamilton, and featuring a pre-recorded introduction for the Playhouse Cinema audience!

For many years, Atom Egoyan has been read (or misread) as a primarily cerebral filmmaker, when the fact is that all of his films are propelled by deeply felt emotional traumas, and his characters' corresponding inability to work through them.

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Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

"Vintage rock fans will be in high heaven." - Variety

Capturing the messy upheaval of the '70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores CREEM Magazine's humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse -- spotlighting iconic features, interviews, and anecdotes along the way -- then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths

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John Lewis: Good Trouble

"There's a lot to glean from the battleground Lewis has stood on for six decades while demanding fairness, a hope, and dream, of every American. Good Trouble is of importance now more than ever." - Salon.com

Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis' 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration.

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Parasite — In Black & White!

14A

Special Black & White edition of this year's Best Picture Oscar Winner

Parasite is for many already an undeniable cinematic masterpiece. But for director Bong Joon Ho, it was his desire to create such a work of art that drove him to cut a black-and-white version of film.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

"A masterpiece. A devastatingly unforgettable story of love and memory." - Indiewire

Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day and secretly paints her at night.

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Perfect Blue

18A

“This anime from Japanese film-maker and manga artist Satoshi Kon is based on a 1991 novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takuechi. Rated 18A.

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Kill Bill Vol 1

“4 Stars. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 shows Quentin Tarantino so effortlessly and brilliantly in command of his technique that he reminds me of a virtuoso violinist racing through Flight of the Bumble Bee…” – Roger Ebert

Maybe Tarantino’s most ambitious effort (and that's saying something), the KILL BILL films are one of the most audacious odes to cinema an American filmmaker has ever made.

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The Burnt Orange Heresy

"Mick Jagger and a starry international cast including Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki deliver an entertaining, sexy, noirish, and feverishly hot european thriller." - Deadline Hollywood

"Sexy and twisty like so many of the best thrillers, The Burnt Orange Heresy benefits from its unpredictable plot, glossy settings, and fabulous cast — international stars Claes Bang (The Square) and Elizabeth Debicki (Widows) lead a roster that includes legend Donald Sutherland and the inimitable Mick Jagger, who looks like he's having the time