Sept 11-17: Not everyone loves Marineland: award-winning exposé opens with filmmaker Q&A; The 2020 Paddling Film Festival Returns; Josh Hartnett in Target Number One, true Canadian crime!

Scroll down to select films and showtimes to get your advance tickets to all of our screenings! Physical distancing of 2 metres in effect throughout the cinemas. Read about our extensive COVID-19 safety measures.

Not everyone loves Marineland. Winner of the Rogers Audience Award at Hot Docs, The Walrus and the Whistleblower opens this Saturday! Opening night is going to be a special treat: we have the film's subject, Phil Demers (you should check out his appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast) and director, Nathalie Bibeau, in attendance for a Q&A! "A personal tale that plays out against the paradigm shift in our relationship with animals, and challenges us to be compassionate, toward humans and animals alike." - Get tickets!

Calling all Paddling fans! This week at the Princess, we are loaded up on screenings for The 2020 World Tour Paddling Film Festival! 9 screenings across three days at the Twin & Original, with sharply reduced seating so act fast to get your tickets before they sell out! The very best paddling films from around the world, from the safety of your physically distanced cinema seat. Canoe, kayak, SUP and more!

Need that live music fix? No concerts, no problem... we've got the next best thing & Rush fans will be in for a great night on Saturday with a screening of Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage in honour of drummer Neil Peart's birthday. We will begin with a listening tribute to the late, great drummer! Also on Friday at the Original, check out a limited screening of David Fincher's Fight Club. We weren't even supposed to talk about it...

NEW at the Twin this weekend is the Josh Hartnett true crime film, Target Number One: a Canadian story! "Target Number One is a crafty crime thriller, a rough-and-ready Heritage Minute given room to bloom into something worthy of its feature length. Run it up the flagpole, I say." - National Post

If you still haven't had the chance to see The Personal History of David Copperfield or How to be a Good Wife, both films continue this week at the Twin. Grab advance tickets and select a showtime that works for you, below!

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FILMS SHOWING Friday Sept 11 to Thursday Sept 17

The Walrus And The Whistleblower

Not everyone loves Marineland. Winner of the Rogers Audience Award at Hot Docs Festival

Phil Demers lives in a bungalow across the creek from MarineLand, the iconic amusement park in Niagara Falls, where he had his dream job as an animal trainer for over a decade. He swam with killer whales and ran the show, until he quit and blew the whistle, making claims of animal abuse and calling for an end to the near 60-year-old practice of keeping marine mammals in pools.

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Target Number One

"Target Number One boasts some incredible performances from Hartnett, Pilon, and Gaffigan." - Film Threat

Josh Hartnett stars as a crusading journalist in this true crime story from 1989

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Fight Club

An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.

A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives.

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Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage - Neil Peart Tribute

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We will have a single RUSH song played before the movie starts as a 'listening' tribute to Neil Peart on what would have been The Professor's 68th birthday.

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Paddling Film Festival World Tour 2020

Sept 15, 16, 17, Princess Twin & Original Princess Cinema. Go on a paddling adventure from the safety of your physically-distanced cinema seat!

We have added multiple dates and showtimes across all three screens to allow for ample physical distancing (2 metres between seats). The cinemas' seating capacities have been reduced 75%. Tickets are limited! 3 shows a day at 7pm, 7:30 and 8pm.**

2.5 hours plus intermission.

The Personal History of David Copperfield

"If you've read the novel, it's a glorious adaptation. If you haven't, it's still the first perfect comedy of 2020." - The Herald

"You don’t need to have read Charles Dickens' eighth novel to enjoy this fresh, contemporary, provocative and brilliantly comic adaptation, which is a marvellously nimble and accessible take on his weighty and most autobiographical book.

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How to Be a Good Wife (La Bonne Épouse)

A woman starts to question the suppressed status of females while running a housekeeping school for teenage girls in 1968 France.

Paulette Van Der Beck (Juliette Binoche) and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband.

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Coming Soon!

Banff Mountain Film Festival - World Tour 2020 - All new!

Sept. 22-25, 7:00 & 7:30, Twin. Co-presented by Grand River Rocks.

Radioactive

"Rosamund Pike's refreshingly untamed performance as two-time Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie does full justice to a defiantly unconventional life." - Rolling Stone

Pioneer. Genius. Rebel.

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The Nest

"An elegant, eerie drama of marital distress." - Hollywood Reporter

Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.

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Haida Modern

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Director Charles Wilkinson's evocative documentary beautifully explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.

In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists. And yet, in the insightful interviews captured here, he retains a remarkably soft-spoken manner and a charming humility that belies what an influential figure he’s become in both the realms of art and activism.

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La belle époque

La Belle Époque is a sweet and inventive romantic comedy that deftly balances hearty laughs and heartwarming emotion.

"Cartoonist Victor (Daniel Auteuil) and psychoanalyst Marianne (Fanny Ardant) have been together for more than forty years. He has grown a little too comfortable with his old-fogey status while she still has a lust for life and a low boredom threshold. Marianne eventually throws Victor out on the street and considers it a long overdue act of liberation.

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