June 3-9: Everything Everywhere; new Terrance Davies; South with Shackleton; A love-letter to Bookstores; Chaplin and Events!

We're sure you've heard Everything about it, its been Everywhere since it came out, and we won't blame you if you All run to see it At Once.

Everything Everywhere All At Once Opens at the Playhouse this Friday!

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"In many ways a homage to the inimitable grace and talent of its star Michelle Yeoh, the film takes gleeful joy in the experiential potential of limitless cinematic shape-shifting." - Globe and Mail

"A bonkers and bizarrely wonderful genre mashup, 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is finally the multiverse movie that we can all relate to." - Detroit News

Get tickets!


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Starting this Friday: poetry, politics, and one man's journey through both World Wars in BENEDICTION.

Written and directed by acclaimed, master filmmaker Terence Davies, BENEDICTION explores the turbulent life of WWI English poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden). 

"Movingly expresses the traumas of war and love, in one of writer-director Terence Davies' finest creations." - Film Verdict

"A major work by a gifted and original filmmaker." - San Francisco Chronicle

"A master class in cinematic craft." - TIFF

Tickets on sale now!


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Warm your heart with Hello, Bookstore,  playing all week

In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner, Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. This intimate portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart offers a journey through good times, hard times, and the stories hidden on the shelves.

Get your tickets here


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Charlie Chaplin directs and plays the Tramp in this brilliantly inventive and hilarious critique of industrial advancement. Widely considered one of the greatest films ever made, MODERN TIMES shows Chaplin at the peak of his creative ability, delivering comedic set pieces and gags that are both timeless and yet specific to the beauty of the silent era.

June 5 & 7, get tickets for MODERN TIMES now!


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The David Bowie Starman Series continues this week with The Hunger!

John (David Bowie) is the lover of the gorgeous immortal vampire Miriam (Catherine Deneuve), and he's been led to believe that he'll live forever, too. Unfortunately, he quickly deteriorates into a horrible living death, and Miriam seeks a new companion. She soon sets her sights on Sarah (Susan Sarandon), a lovely young scientist, who quickly falls under Miriam's spell. However, Sarah doesn't warm up to the concept of vampirism easily

Plays June 4th & 7th only!


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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s glorious epic of the Antarctic, digitally re-mastered and IN CINEMAS for a limited time! An epic that demands to be seen on the big screen! 

Considered the world’s first documentary feature, SOUTH is the original film – exquisitely photographed by Frank Hurley – of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 to 1916 Endurance expedition to Antarctica, during which the ship was crushed by ice, stranding the crew.

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Led by an outstanding Michelle Yeoh, 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' lives up to its title with an expertly calibrated assault on the senses.

WINNER OF 7 OSCARS: BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY and three acting Oscars! When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"Terence Davies’ latest is an equally sombre and sumptuous portrait of 20th-century English poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon."- TIFF

Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, Benediction explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden).

No screenings currently scheduled.

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In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore.

In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner, Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

“She came out of Egypt more than 2,000 years ago. En route to the present day, she picked him up in England in the 18th century. Today they live on Manhattan's East Side in a magnificent marble palazzo. They are Miriam and John Blaylock - young, beautiful and permanently engaged in a search for new blood.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

This comedic masterpiece finds the iconic Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) employed at a state-of-the-art factory where the inescapable machinery completely overwhelms him, and where various mishaps keep getting him sent to prison. In between his various jail stints, he meets and befriends an orphan girl (Paulette Goddard).

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s glorious epic of the Antarctic, digitally re-mastered and IN CINEMAS for a limited time! An epic that demands to be seen on the big screen!

Considered the world’s first documentary feature, South is the original film – exquisitely photographed by Frank Hurley – of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 to 1916 Endurance expedition to Antarctica, during which the ship was crushed by ice, stranding the crew.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Free screening sponsored by the Hamilton Arts Awards!

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s glorious epic of the Antarctic, digitally re-mastered and IN CINEMAS for a limited time! An epic that demands to be seen on the big screen!

No screenings currently scheduled.

The Hamilton Arts Awards are back!

After two years of celebrating our remarkable arts community exclusively online, the City of Hamilton is excited to be offering a dynamic in-person experience on Thursday June 9, 7 to 9 pm as part Hamilton Arts Week 2022.

To encourage the community to fall back in love with our city’s arts spaces, we’re hosting events at three venues and online simultaneously across Hamilton, each with their own unique flair. Each venue will offer up distinctive programming while celebrating the 2022 Arts Awards Award Recipients and short listed nominations .

All event venues are free to attend - No tickets required

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Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

"Jennifer Connelly stars as a self-absorbed teenager immersed in her own Renaissance Faire-esque fantasy world, until goblins accept her angry invitation to come kidnap her wailing toddler brother.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

New 35mm Print supervised by Francis Ford Coppola

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry), Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

During World War II, British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Yanoi and gruff Sgt. Hara (Takeshi) become intrigued with Celliers' open defiance in the face of their staunchly old-world ideas about cowardice and shame. Meanwhile, a translator, Lt. Col.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel (also Chaplin) and his anti-Semitic policies.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a intriguing drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Runner Up at HOT DOCS 2022 for Audience Award

"In 2014, at age 53, Tom Wilson, a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario, with a stack of gold records and stories aplenty, found out quite accidentally that he had been adopted. Soon afterward he learned that his biological parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake community, just outside of Montreal.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Judith leads a double life: two lovers, two sons in France and one daughter in Switzerland. Entangled in secrets and lies, her lives begin to shatter.

"Judith (Virginie Efira) is leading a busy double life: one in France and one in Switzerland. She has two lovers, Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez) with whom she has a little girl Ninon (Loïse Benguerel), and Melvil (Bruno Salomone), with whom she has two older boys. Behind this seemingly delicate balancing act is a life built on lies, secrets and futility.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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A heart-warming British comedy starring Oscar Winner Mark Rylance, the true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the worst golfer to ever the play the British Open.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN tells the heartwarming true story of Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a dreamer and unrelenting optimist. This humble crane operator from Barrow-in-Furness managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976, despite never playing a round of golf before.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas star as two egomaniacs commissioned by a millionaire to make a movie together in this sharp comedy skewering wealth, art, and pride.

"Having surveyed his legacy and finding it lacking in prestige, an octogenarian millionaire pharmaceutical tycoon (José Luis Gómez) decides to finance a great work of cinema. He purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel about sibling rivalry and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz).

No screenings currently scheduled.

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