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Gary Maitland, William Ruane and Paul Brannigan in The Angels’ Share. Click image to visit this movie’s IMDB page for trailers and more.

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, The Angels’ Share is the latest collaboration between director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, My Name Is Joe) and screenwriter Paul Laverty marks a sharp left turn from the pair’s impassioned, socially conscious examinations of the British underclass.

When we are first introduced to the protagonist of The Angels’ Share — Robbie (newcomer Paul Brannigan), a young, intermittently employed Glaswegian with a propensity for violence — he seems little different from the duo’s other rough-hewn working-class characters, but as his story unfolds it takes a decided, and refreshing, turn for the comic.

Determined to straighten out his life and settle down with his pregnant girlfriend (Siobhan Reilly), Robbie narrowly manages to avoid more jail time by agreeing to community service. He is soon befriended by his avuncular supervisor Harry (John Henshaw), a kindly soul who has a connoisseur’s passion for whisky. When Harry takes Robbie and his fellow young offenders Mo (Jasmin Riggins), Rhino (William Ruane) and Albert (Gary Maitland) on an outing to a distillery in the Highlands, Robbie discovers that he has a natural nose for whisky.

101 minutes

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Brackenrig Nursery & Maintenance

Muskoka’s top garden center, offering gardening services and growing plants on the premises for Muskoka, Bracebridge, Port Carling and surrounding areas since 1988.

Brackenrig has propagated thousands of plants native to Muskoka, as well as naturalized species and now has a large amount of indigenous plant material available. By making use of natural materials and selecting plants suitable for our growing conditions, Brackenrig works with with nature rather than against it. Whether you’re an individual gardener or a landscaper, Brackenrig has your gardening solutions ready to go.

1015 Brackenrig Centre Road, RR1, Port Carling.
(705) 765-6261
bracken@muskoka.com
Open April to November

Growing plants is their passion!

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Gary Maitland, William Ruane and Paul Brannigan in The Angels’ Share. Click image to visit this movie’s IMDB page for trailers and more.

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, The Angels’ Share is the latest collaboration between director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, My Name Is Joe) and screenwriter Paul Laverty marks a sharp left turn from the pair’s impassioned, socially conscious examinations of the British underclass.

When we are first introduced to the protagonist of The Angels’ Share — Robbie (newcomer Paul Brannigan), a young, intermittently employed Glaswegian with a propensity for violence — he seems little different from the duo’s other rough-hewn working-class characters, but as his story unfolds it takes a decided, and refreshing, turn for the comic.

Determined to straighten out his life and settle down with his pregnant girlfriend (Siobhan Reilly), Robbie narrowly manages to avoid more jail time by agreeing to community service. He is soon befriended by his avuncular supervisor Harry (John Henshaw), a kindly soul who has a connoisseur’s passion for whisky. When Harry takes Robbie and his fellow young offenders Mo (Jasmin Riggins), Rhino (William Ruane) and Albert (Gary Maitland) on an outing to a distillery in the Highlands, Robbie discovers that he has a natural nose for whisky.

101 minutes

Thank you to this movie’s sponsor

Brackenrig Nursery & Maintenance

Muskoka’s top garden center, offering gardening services and growing plants on the premises for Muskoka, Bracebridge, Port Carling and surrounding areas since 1988.

Brackenrig has propagated thousands of plants native to Muskoka, as well as naturalized species and now has a large amount of indigenous plant material available. By making use of natural materials and selecting plants suitable for our growing conditions, Brackenrig works with with nature rather than against it. Whether you’re an individual gardener or a landscaper, Brackenrig has your gardening solutions ready to go.

1015 Brackenrig Centre Road, RR1, Port Carling.
(705) 765-6261
bracken@muskoka.com
Open April to November

Growing plants is their passion!

Thanks for supporting Muskoka’s Movie culture!

Gary Maitland, William Ruane and Paul Brannigan in The Angels’ Share. Click image to visit this movie’s IMDB page for trailers and more.

The Angels’ Share.

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the latest collaboration between director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, My Name Is Joe) and screenwriter Paul Laverty marks a sharp left turn from the pair’s impassioned, socially conscious examinations of the British underclass.

When we are first introduced to the protagonist of The Angels’ Share — Robbie (newcomer Paul Brannigan), a young, intermittently employed Glaswegian with a propensity for violence — he seems little different from the duo’s other rough-hewn working-class characters, but as his story unfolds it takes a decided, and refreshing, turn for the comic.

Determined to straighten out his life and settle down with his pregnant girlfriend (Siobhan Reilly), Robbie narrowly manages to avoid more jail time by agreeing to community service. He is soon befriended by his avuncular supervisor Harry (John Henshaw), a kindly soul who has a connoisseur’s passion for whisky. When Harry takes Robbie and his fellow young offenders Mo (Jasmin Riggins), Rhino (William Ruane) and Albert (Gary Maitland) on an outing to a distillery in the Highlands, Robbie discovers that he has a natural nose for whisky.

101 minutes

Thank you to this movie’s sponsor

Brackenrig Nursery & Maintenance

Muskoka’s top garden center, offering gardening services and growing plants on the premises for Muskoka, Bracebridge, Port Carling and surrounding areas since 1988.

Brackenrig has propagated thousands of plants native to Muskoka, as well as naturalized species and now has a large amount of indigenous plant material available. By making use of natural materials and selecting plants suitable for our growing conditions, Brackenrig works with with nature rather than against it. Whether you’re an individual gardener or a landscaper, Brackenrig has your gardening solutions ready to go.

1015 Brackenrig Centre Road, RR1, Port Carling.
(705) 765-6261
bracken@muskoka.com
Open April to November

Growing plants is their passion!

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Emmanuelle Riva stars in Amour. Click image to visit this movie’s IMDB page.

Settled happily into their long-established domestic routines, retired music teachers Anne and Georges Laurent (renowned French thesps Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant) have their comfortable world cataclysmically upended when Anne suddenly displays symptoms of a stroke.

With Anne now partially paralyzed, Georges struggles to care for her at home, with each day bringing new, painful challenges. It would have been easy with material such as this to slip into the conventions of a tearjerker, but Haneke unerringly steers clear of sentimentality, cliché or bathos.

127 minutes

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Karen Acton — Royal LePage Lakes of Muskoka

You can reach Karen at (705) 706-2246 or at karenacton@royallepage.ca, and you’ll find Royal LePage Muskoka online at www.royallepagemuskoka.com.

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Laura Linney and Bill Murray star in Hyde Park on Hudson. Click image to visit this movie’s IMDB page for reviews, trailers and more.

Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson details the historic pre-war weekend in 1939 when England’s King George VI (last seen portrayed by Colin Firth in The King’s Speech) and Queen Consort Elizabeth came calling on U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his upstate New York manor house — and when the president started to become especially close to his distant cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley.

The blossoming love between Daisy (Laura Linney, Love Actually) and FDR (a terrific turn by Bill Murray, Get Low) emerges in meaningful silences, the proud display of a stamp collection, a tryst in a car. Affinity becomes affection becomes an affair, while the chaos brewing on the European continent seems far, far away.

95 minutes.

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Rotary Club of Bracebridge

Rotary International has been committed to eradicating Polio for over 25 years.
We are “this close.”

125 countries have announced that they are polio free. There are just three countries in the entire world left to focus on.

A $10 donation will allow us to inoculate 16 more children. $5 will allow us to inoculate 8 children.

Visit the Rotary Bracebridge website, email neil.mac@vianet.ca for more information or visit Rotary Club of Bracebridge on Facebook.

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A Royal Affair. Click image to view this movie’s IMDB page.

In the late eighteenth century, Denmark is ruled by the spoiled King Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), for whom governing takes a backseat to playing with his dog and indulging in all the pleasures of the flesh — which makes him susceptible to the designs of cunning courtiers.

Enter Johann Struensee (Mikkelsen), a handsome German doctor and proponent of the Enlightenment’s reformist principles, invited to come to Copenhagen as his personal physician. There, Struensee discovers his political match in the king’s captivating queen, CarolineMathilde (Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina), who happens to be somewhat starved for attention.

134 minutes, English and Danish with English subtitles.

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Muskoka Mobile Dental Hygiene Services

Dental Hygiene Services in the comfort of your retirement home, nursing home, private home, or at the clinic.

Proprietor Sue Hare: Independent Registered Dental Hygienist with 30 years of experience.

For more information or to book and appointment
call Sue at (705) 801-5606 or email her at tocleanteeth@yahoo.ca.

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Quartet’s star-studded cast includes Tom Courtenay and Maggie Smith. Click on this image to visit the movie’s IMDB page with trailers, review and more.

A directoral debut from none other than Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, Kramer vs. Kramer), Quartet tells the story of retired opera singers and lifelong chums Wilf and Reggie (Billy Connolly, Fido and Tom Courtenay, Nicholas Nickleby), who, together with their former colleague Cissy (Pauline Collins, Albert Nobbs), reside in Beecham House, a retirement home for aged musicians.

Each year on Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday, the residents arrange a concert to raise funds for their home. It is usually a smooth-running, perfectly pleasant event.

Enter stage right Jean (Maggie Smith, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Ladies in Lavender), Reggie’s ex and the fourth, most famous member of the former quartet. Having recently fallen on hard times, the aged diva checks into Beecham, and it’s not long before long-buried grievances rise to the surface, rivalries resume, and plans begin to fall apart. Reconciliation is not on the program, but the show must go on — right?

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Muskoka Opera Guild

A group of enthusiasts who share an enjoyment of opera, Guild members attend Metropolitan Opera high definition simulcasts at the Rene M. Caisse Memorial Theatre in Bracebridge and other events. If you love opera, you are invited to join the Guild.

To learn more, visit www.muskokaopera.com, email president Tom Anderson at eltomander@sympatico.ca or call Diane Adamson at (705)764-1381.

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The harrowing tale of a child soldier in Sub-Saharan Africa. Click on the image to visit this movie’s IMDB page for trailers, reviews and more.

Nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film, Rebelle is the harrowing story of a child soldier’s struggle for survival, conceived by Canadian writer and director Kim Nguyen.

Komona (Rachel Mwanza), a girl living in war-torn Sub-Saharan Africa, tells the blood-stained story of her life to the baby in her womb, a child conceived out of hate — a child she prays she can love.

Two years earlier, Komona’s village is invaded by rebels who force her to gun down her own parents before abducting her and sending her into guerilla warfare. When she is haunted by premonitory visions, she is dubbed “War Witch,” a role that brings with it both relative privileges and grave danger.

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Lake of Bays Brewing Company

Makers of exceptional craft and premium beer, just down the road in nearby Baysville,

Always available: Lake of Bays’ Crosswind Pale Ale, Spark House Red Ale. Available for a limited time: Spring Maple Belgian Blonde Ale.

Lake of Bays beer is sold in 700 LCBOs, Beer Stores and pubs and restaurants across Ontario. Go to www.beerfinder.ca on your computer or smartphone to find the ones nearest you. Or drop by the brewery for a free tour and tasting. Check website for hours. www.lakeofbaysbrewing.ca. It’s worth the drive to Baysville!

Pssst…Coming this spring/summer: Rock Cut Baysville Lager and River Walker Summer Ale.

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The Sessuibs stars Helen Hunt, John Hawkes and William H. Macey. Click on image to visit this movie’s IMDB page for reviews, trailers and more.

The Sessions is a based-on-reality comedy-drama about a childhood polio survivor (John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone), now in his thirties and permanently confined to an iron lung, who hires a professional sex surrogate (Helen Hunt) to help him lose his virginity.

Mark O’Brien’s severe physical limitations have not prevented him from becoming a poet and journalist, nor have they kept him from longing for one of life’s most treasured experiences: sexual fulfillment. With the tacit approval of his priest (William H. Macey), he sets out on a journey to satisfy this need.

An authentic and unlikely feel-good movie, The Sessions reminds us what can be achieved when we strive to overcome our preconceptions.

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Sweetwater Construction
Certified landscape, design & build

Sweetwater specializes in retaining walls, decks, patio walkways, gardens and waterfalls. Give them a call today.

You can reach proprietor Derek Mason and Sweetwater Construction at (705) 385-3729.

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