Still stars James Cromwell and Genevieve Bujold. Click on image to go to the film’s IMDB page with reviews and trailers.

Directed by Michael McGowan (One Week, Saint Ralph), Still Mine explores the bond between a man and his wife as they enter the twilight of their lives, set against windswept rural New Brunswick.

As Irene, tenderly portrayed by Geneviève Bujold (Dead Ringers, Coma), begins to lose her memory, her husband Craig (played by James Cromwell, Babe, The Green Mile) decides that he will build them a more manageable home.

Easier said than done. In a clash of traditional values and modern legislation, Craig soon finds himself battling against the local authorities over fine print in the building bylaws, all while trying to care for his ailing wife.

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Kiera Knightley stars as Anna Karenina. Click the image to visit this movie’s IMDB page for reviews, images and trailers.

Following the success of Atonement and Pride & Prejudice, director Joe Wright reunites with Keira Knightley for a lush and atmospheric adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel.

Set against the richly-textured canvas of late nineteenth-century Russian high society, the story chronicles the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna (Knightley) and the dashing army officer Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson, Nowhere Boy).

Trapped in a passionless marriage, Anna is flattered when she attracts the attention of the charismatic Vronsky. Succumbing to him will, however, set in motion a series of events that will prove to be her undoing.

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Call of the Wild — Septic pumping and portables.

The place to go for all of your septic and portable toilet needs, from construction or casual to high end for formal affairs.

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Featuring a star-studded cast that includes Monica Nappo and Roberto Benigni. Click on the image to see movies stills and trailers and to read reviews.

Woody Allen’s follow up to Midnight in Paris— his love letter to the City of Light — in which he turns his attention to the Eternal City.

Loosely inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, To Rome with Love is told in four intersecting vignettes following a series of adventures and romantic entanglements in one of the world’s most enchanting cities and boasts a star-studded cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig and Allen himself.

To Rome with Love will make you want to dust off your passport.

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Roy DeHaan Carpentry

Specializing in trim, mantels and stairs, you can trust Roy DeHaan Carpentry to do the job right.

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At home in the Bathtub, a marshland cut off from the coast of Southern Louisiana, an unapologetically uncivilized band of humans live alongside the animals that sustain them, blissfully disconnected from their resource-burning neighbours to the north. Among them, six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) already fends well for herself, sharing a trailer with her father, Wink (Dwight Henry), who hasn’t been the same since Hushpuppy’s mother left them years earlier.

A stunning debut from first-time filmmaker Benh Zeitlin.

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Martin’s Framing Gallery and Art Supplies

MARTINS is full-service (on site) picture framing gallery. Whether your needs are personal projects, gift ideas or business applications, we take care to ensure the quality, price and combinations selected are just what you want.

Now in his his 17th year, Jim Burns and staff take pride in framing your art prints, original artwork, photographs, needlepoint, certificates, documents, memorabilia or puzzles. Whatever you come up with, we will design a frame to display it!

Located at 158 Manitoba Street in Bracebridge, you can reach Jim at (705) 645-9444.

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Hysteria, starring Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Felicity Jones and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Click on image to visit the movie’s IMDB page for trailers and more.

A spirited mixture of costume drama and slapstick comedy, Hysteria recounts the titillating true story of one of the Victorian era’s less publicized, but most beneficial, innovations: yes, this is the very first film to recreate the invention of the vibrator.

In 1880s London, Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy, The Jane Austen Book Club) is a brilliant young doctor whose progressive ideas about germ theory and hygiene have alienated him from the medical establishment. Ousted from his latest residency, he finds himself working with London’s “foremost specialist in women’s medicine,” Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce, De-Lovely). That lofty title means that Dalrymple is an expert in “hysteria,” a malaise diagnosed so liberally that the good doctor hypothesizes at least half the city’s women are sufferers.

To ease these patients’ stress, Dalrymple has developed a form of therapy that involves the careful manual stimulation of a certain female body part, which inspires Granville to collaborate with his gadget-enthusiast friend (Rupert Everett, A Midsummer’s Night Dream) on the invention of the first vibrator.

Key to this innovation was Granville’s association with Dalrymple’s very different daughters, the prim Emily (Felicity Jones, Julie and Julia) and the brash, outspoken Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stranger Than Fiction) — a love triangle that reflects the divide between Victorian repression and the oncoming women’s movement and drive for sexual liberation.

Shot in a gorgeous re-creation of nineteenth-century London, and featuring swift direction from Tanya Wexler and pithy performances from its star-studded cast, Hysteria is, as it should be, a pleasure. Fnarr-fnarr.

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Sherry Rondeau
Royal LePage, Lakes of Muskoka

Sherry has been a Spinning Reels sponsor for several years now. Thanks for supporting Muskoka’s movie culture, Sherry!

You can phone her at (705) 645-5257 X 231, or email her at muskokarondeau@sympatico.ca. She’s also online at www.muskokarondeau.ca.

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The story of an improbable friendship between Philippe (François Cluzet, Little White Lies, Tell No One) a wealthy quadriplegic, and Driss (Omar Sy, Micmacs), a young offender of Senegalese descent, who is hired as his live-in caregiver.

Breaking box office records as one of the highest grossing non-English language films of all time, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s The Intouchables has become a worldwide sensation. Nominated for nine César Awards (France’s equivalent to the Academy Awards), where Omar Sy won for Best Actor.

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Muskoka Natural Food Market, located in the Metro Bracebridge Shopping Centre in Bracebridge, Ontario.

The phone number is (705) 645-5471, and they’re now online at www.muskokanaturalfoods.wordpress.com.

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Our tenth season wrapped on Monday May 14, 2012 with Monsieur Lazhar.

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About Monsieur Lazhar

Following the tragic and shocking death of a Montreal schoolteacher, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag) – a middle-aged Algerian immigrant seeking political refuge in Quebec – swiftly pursues the opportunity to fill the sudden vacancy and come to the aid of the overworked principal and students affected by this tragedy.

To these children in shock, Lazhar’s traditional teaching methods may well provide the structure they need. As more information about Lazhar’s own history is revealed, his struggles and experiences make him all the better suited to guide these children into adulthood.

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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.

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt

Directed by Lasse Hallström (The Shipping News, Chocolat), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen recounts the remarkable story of an unlikely hero who finds himself a victim in a political plot, discovers love, and learns to believe in the impossible.

Ewan McGregor (Beginners) stars as Fred Jones, a fisheries expert and academic who toils away for the British government. When he is approached by the beautiful young Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria) with a proposal to introduce salmon into the waterways of Yemen, he laughs off the scheme. Harriet represents an amiable and benevolent sheikh who believes that fishing creates a spiritual connection between humans and nature, and bringing the sport to his country would benefit his people.

While Fred ponders the idea, the proposal catches the ear of the British Prime Minister’s spokesperson, Bridget Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas, Sarah’s Key). Desperate to detract attention from a political scandal, Bridget sees Harriet’s idea as the perfect opportunity to promote what will appear to be a heartfelt story of British goodwill in the Middle East. Despite his protests, Fred soon finds himself working on a project that seems not only frivolous but absolutely unfeasible in the arid land of Yemen.

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Specializing in aquatic and environmental science, technical facilitation and peer review services, HESL provides consulting services to industry, developers and government across Canada from their offices in Bracebridge and Kitchener. HESL consists of six full-time employees, all experienced senior scientists.

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This remake of the John le Carré classic stars the inimitable Gary Oldman. Click the image to visit this movie's IMDB page.

Adapted from John le Carré’s classic Cold War spy novel and starring a who’s who of British acting talent, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a fascinating look at the disenchanted world of espionage and treachery.

This is the anti-James Bond, where gadgets and girls are replaced with drab duds and anonymous office space, cool colours and muted emotions.

Directed by Tomas Alfredson and starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, John Hurt and Ciran Hinds.

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Martin’s Framing Gallery and Art Supplies

MARTINS is full-service (on site) picture framing gallery. Whether your needs are personal projects, gift ideas or business applications, we take care to ensure the quality, price and combinations selected are just what you want.

Now in his his 17th year, Jim Burns and staff take pride in framing your art prints, original artwork, photographs, needlepoint, certificates, documents, memorabilia or puzzles. Whatever you come up with, we will design a frame to display it!

Located at 158 Manitoba Street in Bracebridge, you can reach Jim at (705) 645-9444.

Thanks for supporting Muskoka’s movie culture!