Sept 20 - Sept 26: A Week Full of Secrets! With Official Secrets & Surprise Movie Night! Plus Miles Davis & Scotch!

How good are you at keeping a secret? It seems this week is filled with them, in the best way possible! We're opening the new espionage / thriller film, Official Secrets on Friday at the Twin. The film is a true story (and a wild one) about British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun and her involvement in breaking crucial news during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

This coming Thursday (7pm at the Twin) it's one of our favourite nights of the year with Surprise Movie Night supporting our community friends at KW Counseling! Get tickets now, time is running out! There's some good news this year, we're doing TWO NIGHTS of Surprise Movie Night, you can also get tickets for the October 3rd screening. This year’s films have not yet been released in theatres and are currently screening for film industry professionals at major film festivals around the world.

Two new documentaries opening this weekend as well, catch the musical-doc, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles that provides a look into the all-time classic musical, Fiddler on the Roof. Plus, dig into a modern mystery with Cold Case Hammarskjold. This documentary uncovers the complicated mystery of the death of UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld.

Scotch / Whisky lovers, get ready for Thursday as we're screening a documentary that will make you want to wet your whistle! Scotch: A Golden Dream has a one-night-only screening at the Original, so tell your friends who love scotch! We've also teamed up with DVLB & White Rabbit to offer you a scotch tasting, documentary screening ticket! Keep an eye on our social media pages to get yours.

Miles Davis gave birth to the 'cool'... and that's exactly what the new documentary, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool digs into, catch it at the Original this week when it opens on Tuesday. We've got some great films continuing this weekend into next week... Like the new Ram Dass documentary, Becoming Nobody which has been making us feel a lot more enlightned. The Peanut Butter Falcon continues this weekend at the Twin with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Brittany Runs a Marathon!

Lot's of movies, even more memories. See you at the flicks!

FILMS SHOWING Friday Sept 20 to Thursday Sept 26

Official Secrets

"Bloody hell, the Brits do low-key, paranoid procedural dramas like Official Secrets well, with a pervading chill... The crispness cuts like a knife." - New York Magazine

"Based on the book The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War, Official Secrets tells the true story of British secret-service officer Katharine Gun, who during the immediate run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq leaked a top-secret National Security Agency memo. The memo – which exposed an illegal U.S./U.K.

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Scotch: A Golden Dream

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“Enjoy a sniff of this amiable doc about the ins and outs of the high-end Scottish whisky trade and you’ll get hints of passion, tempered with wafts of fustiness. This solid film hones in on Jim McEwan, a master distiller on the Hebridean Isle of Islay with 53 years of whisky-making under his belt.

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Surprise Movie Night

Oct 3. 7pm - Twin. Special Fundraising event for KW Counselling Services.

Like last year, we will be screening TWO surprise movies; one on September 26, 2019 and one on October 3, 2019.

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

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‘Max Lewkowicz’s Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles provides an entertaining overview of how the unlikely success Fiddler on the Roof came to be.

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Cold Case Hammarskjold

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Winner of the Documentary Directing award at Sundance, Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a shocking, revelatory murder mystery about the 1961 plane crash that killed United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.

"The titular protagonist of Cold Case Hammarskjöld is Dag Hammarskjöld, the secretary general of the United Nations who died in a plane crash in 1961, in what was then northern Rhodesia.

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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

“In Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Sundance vet Stanley Nelson offers a documentary broader in chronological scope than his most visible films, celebrating a musician whose career was not just long but constantly transformational.

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Brittany Runs a Marathon

"Bell draws laughter and tears out of her character's indignities but also invests us greatly in her desire to change her own life." - Globe & Mail

"Written and directed by first-timer Paul Downs Colaizzo and starring Jillian Bell in a performance that defines breakout, 'Brittany' not only goes places you won’t be expecting but it also manages to be simultaneously sympathetic and unsentimental, a picture with a laugh-out-loud sense of humor that can be as real as hell when it needs to be.

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The Peanut Butter Falcon

"Life might be imitating art or vice versa, who knows? One thing is certain: The Peanut Butter Falcon is a wonderful piece of art." - Globe & Mail

“The Peanut Butter Falcon is a sweet, funny and heartfelt look at friendship and strength. Zak, played by Zack Gottsagen who has Down syndrome, lives in a retirement community where Eleanor (Dakota Johnson) works and cares for him. Most of his days are spent watching an old wrestling video about his hero, Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church).

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Tarantino's brand of classical moviemaking is a thrill to behold." - Minneapolis Star Tribune

After a career of celebrating, dismantling, and reviving every corner of cinema history he can find, master filmmaker and provocateur Quentin Tarantino finally turns his attention to the movie business itself.

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Digital Disconnect - Canadian Sovereignty in the Internet Age

FREE event. Presented by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. What is the impact of the Internet on Canada’s media sector, politics, and democracy? And what does that mean for the upcoming federal election in October 2019? Join us for a free documentary screening and panel discussion with Bianca Wylie, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Co-Founder of Tech Reset Canada, in conversation with FRIENDS Executive Director Daniel Bernhard.

Digital Disconnect is a documentary film that explores the crucial question of whether the connective potential of social media outweighs the damage it inflicts on our minds, our families, our society, and our democracy.

Beyond Crisis

Presented by ClimateStrikeWR. BEYOND CRISIS is a story of hope for a rapidly changing world: a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, as told by over fifty diverse voices from across Canada, the U.S. and beyond.

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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

Tribute to Robbie Robertson. “With Robertson’s deep timber and vivid recollections – as well as quips from his mentor Ronnie Hawkins, interviews with fellow rock luminaries and a dizzying amount of rock and roll archival clips – it’s an entertaining account of Robertson’s journey through monumental music moments.” - NOW" - Variety

On Aug 9th, 2023, the great, legendary Canadian guitarist and songwriter, Robbie Robertson, died. In his honour, we present the 2019 documentary (directed by Oscar-winner, Daniel Rohr) based on Robertson's memoir, Testimony.

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Aquarela

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“Shot in high definition at 96 frames per second, this eyepopper from Russian director-writer-cinematographer-editor Victor Kossakovsky is like nothing you’ve ever seen. His free-form documentary on water opens by scaring us to death.

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