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Barney’s Version

Screened on: Monday, April 11, 2011 A smash hit among literary critics and winner of countless awards, Barney’s Version is a hilarious and moving account of one man’s personal life journey and a superb adaptation of one of the most … Continue reading

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Incendies

Screened on: Monday, March 28, 2011 at 7 p.m. Oscar-nommed international thriller Incendies (Scorched). Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Rémy Girard, Allen Altman, Lubna Azabal. This is a powerful French-language epic about how a mother’s last wishes send twins Jeanne … Continue reading

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Inside Job–March 14, 2011

Do you get angry when you think of the 2008 economic crisis? Inside Job will have you popping a cog. Premiering at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, Inside Job offers the definitive screen investigation into what went wrong and … Continue reading

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Made in Dagenham

Monday, February 14, 2011. The ultimate date movie for the feminist in your life. A dramatization of the 1968 strike at Britain’s Ford Dagenham car plant, in which female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination, Made in Dagenham … Continue reading

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Tamara Drewe – screened January 24, 2011.

Based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel of the same name (itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd), this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex. When Tamara Drewe … Continue reading

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Score: A Hockey Musical

January 10, 2011 — Michael McGowan’s Score: A Hockey Musical is a playful and joyously entertaining charmer uniting Canada’s national obsession with the overnight success stories of the classic Hollywood musicals. Boasting young love, on-ice drama and cameos that range … Continue reading

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Nowhere Boy

Nowhere Boy: Screened on: December 13, 2010. This chronicle of John Lennon’s tumultuous teenage years, based on a memoir by his half-sister Julia Baird, is less about rock ‘n’ roll than it is about his first steps toward emotional maturity. … Continue reading

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