“I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now, I’m very hungry!” It’s summer, people! And that means… We fight for love, and we’re going COMMANDO to do it. In this classic slice of 80’s action-movie goodness, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force – and he … Read more
“I want a woman that will arouse my intellect as well as my loins.” Are you ready to bark like a dog…? A big dog? Join us for a Friday Late Night Movie screening of one of the 80’s biggest comedy blockbusters, starring one of the biggest comedians of that decade – it’s Eddie Murphy … Read more
The movie COMEDY ON THREE FLOORS (“Komedija na tri sprata“) brings us the comical and often crazy adventures of the tennants of a– at first glance – absolutely common apartment building in Belgrade. The gallery of characters – alienated and selfish, but still well-meaning souls is in contrast with the building, which, together with their … Read more
Join us for an encore screening of Ant Timpson‘s (TURBO KID, THE GREASY STRANGLER) feature directing debut, the BC-lensed horror thriller COME TO DADDY, starring Elijah Wood, on Monday, February 17. Norval’s (Wood) life has been, to put it lightly, difficult. Currently living at home with his mother, the troubled young man is coming off … Read more
COME AND SEE – the widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov – is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s JOAN OF … Read more
Soon to be cult-hit COLOSSAL is Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo at his visionary best in a genre defying mash-up that’s equal parts sci-fi “kaiju” monster movie and metaphor-laden revenge-fueled romantic(?) drama. Anne Hathaway stars as Gloria, a woman whose life falls apart when her alcoholism and party-girl tendencies get her fired and kicked out of … Read more
Writer-director Paweł Pawlikowski follows up his 2015 Oscar-winner IDA with an equally moving, visually stark, black and white dramatic period piece set in Poland. COLD WAR is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched … Read more
On a frozen highway in the remote Canadian North, an Indigenous woman and her dog are hunted by a stranger in a semi truck. Tracy (Roseanne Supernault) is on a 12 hour road trip with her dog Pretzel, trying to get home before her mom passes into the spirit world. Each mile takes her further … Read more
The acclaimed documentary COEXTINCTION follows two female filmmakers as they fight alongside Indigenous leaders and scientists to protect a critically endangered species of orca, their interconnected and collapsing ecosystem, and human life in the Pacific Northwest. After a mother orca carries her dead calf for 17 days, two filmmakers spring into action, joining Indigenous leaders … Read more
Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on … Read more
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