See Oscar Nominated Films, All This Weekend at the Playhouse!

The Weekend Is Here! We've got Oscar Nominated films screening all weekend long, along with a truck-ton of fresh popcorn! Grab advance tickets to see a movie, today!

We're opening the Oscar Nominated film from Japan, Drive My Car this weekend. Unlike anything you've seen before and we're rooting for it to win Best Picture at the Oscars this year.

Belfast landed 7 Oscar Nominations this week and we've got it on-tap at the Playhouse all weekend long. This Best Picture frontrunner is the perfect film to return to the movies with, bring the whole family. This film has a ton of heart.

Denzel Washington has made history for earning his 9th Best Actor Oscar Nomination for his role as Macbeth in The Tragedy of Macbeth, continuing all weekend at the Playhouse. This adaptation is like no other, coming from A24... it's expected.

Another historic moment in film happened this week, that moment was when Flee became the first ever film to be nominated for Best Documentary, Best Animated Film & Best International at the Oscars. We're opening it this weekend, so go see history in the making!

And don't forget about Monday! It's Valentine's Day in-case you forgot... We've got an all time romance classic on the big screen for one-night-only! Tickets are on-sale now to see An American in Paris! Make it a date night!

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See you at the movies this Friday!

Belfast

Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

Nominated for 7 Oscars! Including: Best Picture, Best Director, and Original Screenplay

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Drive My Car

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Winner of the 2021 Golden Globe for Best International Feature. "A masterpiece." - Wall Street Journal

Nominated for 4 Oscars (Best Picture, Director, International Feature, Adapted Screenplay.)

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Flee

Depicting the refugee experience through vivid animation, Flee pushes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking to present a moving memoir of self-discovery.

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Animated Feature, International Feature, Documentry Feature)

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The Tragedy of Macbeth

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation; a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning.

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design)

Power-hungry Macbeth sets his sights on the Scottish throne after receiving a prophecy from three witches.

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An American in Paris

Our Valentine: A rare chance to see the dazzling 1951 Best Picture-winning musical on the big screen! Music by George Gershwin.

Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an American ex-GI who stays in post-war Paris to become a painter, and falls for the gamine charms of Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron). However, his paintings come to the attention of Milo Roberts, a rich American heiress, who is interested in more than just art.

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HAMILTON - Paddling Film Festival 2021

Hosted by Outdoor Adventures Hamilton

Paddling adventures: flat or rough, single paddle or a double, extreme, serene or just right for you...

It's 2022 you say, not so fast!! Why throw away perfectly good paddling flicks? We're sneaking in the 2021 films just before the new ones premier (There's plenty of time in 2022 for the new ones).

Join us for the PADDLING Film Festival - 2021 films, no bells and whistles at the screening (holding off on the door prizes for now) but there will be the awesome Playhouse Cinema snack bar (beer, wine and real butter!!). Don't worry we're following the COVID rules...

The Worst Person in the World

"The kind of movie which reminds you just how beguiling top-tier cinema can be, Joachim Trier's 'The Worst Person in the World' is a triumph." - Awards Watch

Oscar nominated for Best Original Screenplay and International Film

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Parallel Mothers

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"Note to Oscar: Make sure a best actress nomination happens for the blazing Penelope Cruz in this emotional powerhouse from director Pedro Almodovar about a Madrid photographer coping with an unplanned pregnancy and a tangled political past." - Peter Travers, ABC News

Oscar Nominated for Best Actress and Best Original Score

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The Room in 35mm

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

“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.

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Last of the Right Whales

"Featuring breathtaking cinematography of this rarely seen, 60-ton great whale, Last of the Right Whales will resonate with audiences long after the final frame fades to black." - Nadine Pequeneza, Director and Producer

Director in Attendance for Q & A (opening screeening only)!

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In the Heat of the Night - Sidney Poitier Tribute

Winner of 5 Oscars, including Best Picture. "Sidney Poitier is pure charisma as Virgil Tibbs, the Philadelphia policeman whose between-trains stopover in a small Southern town is indefinitely extended when he’s first implicated in, then asked to assist with a local murder investigation." - Time Out

"It was the slap heard round the world.

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A Raisin in the Sun - Sidney Poitier Tribute

Sidney Poitier Remembered. "A groundbreaking work that manages to be both specific to the African-American experience and universal in its themes of hope, change, and upward mobility." - Screen Daily

Lorraine Hansberry’s immortal A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A classic Princess Cinemas tradition you never want to miss! Don't come alone...

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2022 Oscar-Nominated Shorts - Animated

The year's best animated shorts. For mature audiences only.

For the 17th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)!

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2022 Oscar-Nominated Shorts - Documentary

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2022 Oscar-Nominated Shorts - Live Action

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Compartment No. 6

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Traveling by train from Moscow to Murmansk, a Finnish student forms an unlikely friendship with a gruff Russian miner.

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

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Rheostatics: Live at the Playhouse / With Corin Raymond opening

Saturday, April 9, 8:00pm. A few tickets available!

Ever bound for ragged glory, Rheostatics occupy a unique place in the Canadian music landscape, pulled together and apart for nearly forty years. Finding grace in the reality of endurance, Rheostatics show us a special type of longevity, through upheaval, personal (and personnel) change, and a basic refusal to play the game in any way, shape or form, stretched over decades.