Monday Night at the MoviesNo Men Beyond This Point
May 9, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Canada Rated: PG | Mockumentary | 80 minutes This wry mockumentary from Vancouver director Mark Sawers posits an alternate history where an explosion of virgin births from the 1950s onwards has taken men out of the procreation equation — and now that only girls are being born, it seems that men’s days on earth…
Mavis!
April 18, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm United States Rated: G | Documentary | 80 minutes Mavis! is the first feature documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of the ’60s and hits like “I’ll Take You There” in the ’70s, to funked-up collaborations with Prince and…
The Lady in the Van
April 4, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Great Britain Rated: Not at this time | Drama | 104 minutes Based on Alan Bennett’s memoir and hit West End play, this brilliantly witty, “mostly true” story chronicles an unlikely friendship between a writer and an elderly eccentric. “The writer is double,” playwright Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings, Belle, The Queen) explains early in…
Mustang
March 21, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm English subtitles Rated: PG | Drama | 97 minutes Nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category, Mustang takes place in a Turkish coastal village on the Black Sea. Celebrating the last day of school before summer holidays, several children play in the sea. In their school uniforms, they give…
Labyrinth of Lies
February 22, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm German with English subtitles Rated: 14A | Drama | 124 minutes Labyrinth of Lies, Germany’s official Foreign Language submission for the 2016 Academy Awards, is an historical drama which takes place twenty years after World War II. A journalist identifies a teacher in a playground as a former Auschwitz guard. Defying the views of…
Al Purdy Was Here
February 8, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Canadian Rated: PG | Documentary | 92 minutes An icon of English Canadian letters, the late Al Purdy was equal parts rock star, raconteur, and rabble-rouser — in other words, all poet. Coming to prominence in the 1960s alongside a crop of other extraordinary talents (including Leonard Cohen, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Michael…
Brooklyn
January 25, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Ireland/United Kingdom/Canada Rated: PG | Drama | 105 minutes Scripted by bestselling author Nick Hornby from the acclaimed novel by Colm Tóibín, the poignant and gorgeously realized Brooklyn has elicited a flurry of Oscar buzz following its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. On the southeast coast of Ireland in the early 1950s,…
Remember
January 11, 2016 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Canada Rated: 14A | Drama/Suspense | 95 minutes Master filmmaker Atom Egoyan (Ararat, The Sweet Hereafter) tackles one of the darkest chapters of 20th-century history in the gripping thriller Remember, which gives legendary actor Christopher Plummer (Elsa & Fred, Beginners) a majestic role as an elderly Holocaust survivor seeking revenge on the man responsible…
Pawn Sacrifice
November 2, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm USA Rated: PG | Drama | 115 minutes In the biographical thriller Pawn Sacrifice, American grandmaster chess player Bobby Fischer (played by Tobey Maguire; The Great Gatsby, Spiderman ) is pitted against the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky (played by Liev Schreiber; X-Men Origins: Wolverine) for the 1972 World Chess Championship. This true story, directed…
Testament of Youth
October 19, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm UK Rated: PG | Drama | 129 minutes Testament of Youth is based on the best-selling First World War memoir written by Vera Brittain. Vera (played by Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) overcomes her family’s objections and is accepted as a student at Somerville College, Oxford. When World War I breaks…