sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 18 (7:00 & 9:15) JAN 19 (7:00 only) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM THE PRINCESS BRIDE JAN 20 (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:40) REAL STEEL SPECIAL EVENT! JAN 21 (3:25 matinee, 7:00 & 9:40) TOUS LES MATINS DU Director Charles JAN 15 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 only) Wilkinson & natural J. EDGAR MONDE gas fracking expert JAN 16 & 17 (7:00 & 9:35) Director: Alain Corneau France, 1991, 115 min; Director: Clint Eastwood Ben Parfitt will be USA, 2011, 137 minutes; PG French with subtitles; PG in attendance for a Cast: Leonard DiCaprio, Armie MELANCHOLIA Q&A session after Director: Lars von Trier Denmark/Sweden, 2011, 136 minutes; PG Cast: This vibrantly beautiful film, about two seventeenth- Hammer, Judi Dench, Naomi the screening. Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard, century composers who played the viol (cello), toys Watts Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt cleverly with history in the manner of Amadeus. Gerard Depardieu stars as Marais, a dissolute musi- PEACE Say this for Leonardo DiCaprio: “ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR SCREEN ACHIEVEMENTS OF RECENT cian looking back on his youth. The teen Marais — He doesn’t scare off easy from YEARS! GORGEOUS. PROFOUNDLY EMOTIONAL.” –Salon the actor’s son, Guillaume Depardieu, is sensational OUT acting challenges. In J. Edgar, — studies with a stern and reclusive master, Sainte DiCaprio ages from his twenties “A SPECTACLE IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN AWAY FROM. MONUMENTALLY Director: Charles Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle). Seduced by the Wilkinson Canada, to his seventies to play America’s AMBITIOUS!” –The Village Voice glamour of the king’s court, the ambitious student 2011, 80 minutes feared and loathed top cop. And ultimately rejects Sainte Colombe’s disipline. It’s the despite being buried in layers WINNER! BEST ACTRESS – Kirsten Dunst – Cannes Film Festival music that gives wings to this rueful tale of art, love This award winning of prosthetic latex, DiCaprio is and loss. –Rolling Stone documentary on the costs of energy extraction in a roaring wonder in the role. He A movie masterpiece. Lars von Trier’s ecstatic magnum opus on the themes of The restlessly creative Danish filmmaker behind Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, North Western Canada is a long, hard look at our needs to be. Until his death in depression, cataclysm, and the way the world might end. The title describes and Antichrist is known to have survived a black depression himself. But here technological affluence and its price. We hear from 1972, J. Edgar Hoover ruled the the mounting sadness and doom pressing down on Justine (Kirsten Dunst, he sets aside all trickster impulses of provocation to create striking visual tab- climate change experts, energy policy scholars and Federal Bureau of Investigation who deservedly took home a 2011 award at the Cannes Film Festival for her leaux that, in their majestic simplicity, convey a profound emotional depth that business professionals. This is a generously inquisi- like a bulldog no one would dare magnificent work), a mood-swinging bride on her wedding day. Justine is transcends words. The filmmaker blends the grand romanticism of Wagnerian tive film, made with an open mind and a fierce sense leash. For half a century Hoover attended to by her protective sister, Claire (a soulful Charlotte Gainsbourg), and music — specifically the famous prelude from Tristan und Isolde — with of commitment. It’s these two qualities that combine nosed into private lives to control his enemies, and some friends. But Hoover had secrets too, and worried over by her bewildered groom (Alexander Skarsgard). But in von Trier’s swooning dreamscape cinematography that magically melts sight and sound to make its conclusion so powerfully convincing. now acclaimed director Clint Eastwood and Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black are imagined galaxy, Melancholia is also the name of a planet that is hurtling on a into one. (Von Trier has said that Antonioni, Bergman, and Tarkovsky are among –Vancouver International Film Festival doing the nosing around. –Rolling Stone catastrophic collision course with Earth — a cosmic manifestation of that same his influences.) So please, please, for the love of movies, watch this stunner on crushing sadness, discovered through a telescope’s eye by Claire’s astronomer the biggest screen available. It’s a giant achievement. –Entertainment Weekly husband (Kiefer Sutherland).

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 25 (7:10 & 9:00) JAN 27 & 28 (3:00 matinee, 7:10 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM REAL STEEL JAN 24 (7:00 & 9:40) LABYRINTH back by popular demand JAN 26 (7:10 only) SPECIAL EVENT! back by popular demand! JAN 22 (3:25 matinee, 7:00 & 9:20) THE HELP On Jan. 26th, there will be a panel CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS JAN 23 (7:00 & 9:20) Director: Tate Taylor USA, 2011, 137 min; PG discussion with four experts in the Director: Werner Herzog Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Emma fields of feminism, anti-racism, politics Canada/USA, 2010, 90 minutes; rated G Stone, Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain TAKE SHELTER and popular culture. German filmmaker Werner Herzog petitioned the Director: Jeff Nichols USA, 2011, 122 minutes; PG Based on the bestseller by Kathryn Stockett. French government for an unprecedented chance to Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain Skeeter, a southern society girl, turns her friends’ MISS REPRESENTATION film inside the Chauvet cave of southeastern France. lives--and a small 1960s Mississippi town--upside Chauvet, the most recently discovered and by far the “A MOVIE FOR THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THIS MOMENT IN Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom down when she decides to interview the black oldest of the great Paleolithic cave-painting sites of OUR LIVES.” –Philadelphia Inquirer USA, 2011, 90 min; DVD; PG women who have spent their lives taking care Western Europe, has been visited only by a small With a 256-billion-dollar advertising industry as its main group of scholars since it was found in 1994. Herzog “TAUT, UNSETTLING, HAUNTING AND POWERFUL.” of prominent southern families. Along the way, opponent, Miss Representation wants to challenge the descended into the cave to give the rest of the world –Washington Post unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges. representation of women in modern American culture. what may be the closest look we will ever get at some of the world’s earliest works of art. The According to the documentary, the media’s foremost “THIS IS MASTERFUL FILMMAKING.” –Roger Ebert resulting movie is itself a work of art—one that partakes, across imponderable millennia of remove, message is that a woman’s value is to be measured by in some of the uncanny beauty and mystery of these caves. If you’re interested in the history of the HHHH! This story of a man afflicted with fearful visions is her youth and beauty, making it difficult for young girls human race—if you’re a member of the human race—you owe it to yourself to see this movie. --Slate hitting the right apocalyptic trumpet call at the right time. to reach their full potential and women to reach posi- Fresh from festivals at Sundance, Cannes and Toronto, tions of power. The consequences are becoming notice- this well-crafted work resonates with the Doomsday eco- able: The US currently ranks 90th in the world in electing JAN 27 & 28 (11pm) separate admission nomic and environmental scenarios and the fear-mongering hyperbole of the airwaves. Michael Shannon or appointing women to government roles. Actress- (Revolutionary Road, Boardwalk Empire), an actor whose features seem so carved in granite that every turned-director Jennifer Siebel Newsom put together THE ROOM grimace feels potentially seismic. He plays Curtis, an Ohio construction worker who’s treading water an impressive array of women to share their own experi- Dir: Tommy Wiseau USA, 2003, 99 min; DVD; 14A financially. He’s a gentle, clumsy father to his hearing-impaired six-year-old daughter. He’s also the bread- ences with sexualization, among them, feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, and politicians like winner for his wife (Jessica Chastain). Curtis’s life may be in trouble. In the film’s eerie prologue, we see Condoleezza Rice and Nancy Pelosi. Miss Representation doesn’t shy away from the role women them- This has become an instant cult classic. You have to see it to believe it! Share with an audience your him standing outside his home, staring at the ominous cloud formations while the wind whips through the selves play in this phenomenon, nor the media’s double standard when dealing with female politicians. gasps of disbelief as you watch. Tommy Wiseau wrote, directed and stars in this dramatic travesty. trees….. --The Globe and Mail —Vancouver International Film Festival When audiences and critics laughed at the results, Wiseau shifted gears and called it a black com- edy. You be the judge. If you can stop laughing long enough.

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM LABYRINTH JAN 31 (7:10 & 9:00) FEB 1 & 2 (7:00 & 9:00) FEB 3 & 4 PUSS IN BOOTS See also Feb. 1 & 2 THE SWELL SEASON (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:20) JAN 29 Directors: Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins & Carlo Mirabella-Davis ONCE Ireland/USA, 2011, 91 minutes; Blu-ray THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:20) Director: John Carney JAN 30 (7:00 & 9:20) Ireland, 2006, 87 min; DVD; PG The Swell Season almost feels like a sequel to the 2006 Irish indie musical Once (see Jan. 31), if the – PART 1 In John Carney’s amiable folk-pop musical medita- two main characters did get together and form a band. While Once was more or less a work of fiction, Director: Bill Condon USA, 2011, 118 min; PG THE SKIN I LIVE IN tion, the talented Glen Hansard (of the Irish band Swell Season is a black-and-white documentary. Picking up directly after the success of Once propelled Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning Director: Pedro Almodóvar Spain, 2011, the Frames) stars as Guy, who performs his songs stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova—lov- Bella and Edward, plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequenc- 121 min; Spanish with subtitles; 18A on the streets of Dublin. Markéta Irglová shines as ers onscreen and off—into an Oscar-fueled es brought on by the marriage, honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of a child, which a nuanced Czech émigré who recognizes Guy’s spotlight, Swell Season is the result of three brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black. With more There’s an early decisive moment in Pedro spirit and inspires him with her own musical artistry. years of footage by filmmakers who followed romance, passion, intrigue and action, the conclusion of The Twilight Saga begins. Almodóvar’s exhilarating film when Robert It doesn’t get much sweeter than this, but Carney Hansard and Irglova on tour, capturing gor- –Summit Entertainment Ledgard, a plastic surgeon and madman avoids cloying sentiment and renders his charac- geous black-and-white documentation of the played with soul weariness by Antonio effect extensive touring and fast fame had ters believably—and adorably—idealistic. Every The latest and best of Banderas, gazes at the image of a woman time Hansard and Irglová start to play, we sit back on their relationship, both professionally and on the wall of his bedroom. She’s bigger romantically. The result is a charming and pol- the movies about a girl, and enjoy, and hope they succeed. her vampire and their than life, and more beautiful. He calls her –The New Yorker ished new entry into the music documentary Vera (Elena Anaya), and she’s stretched out in the classic recumbent pose of the odalisque: that exotic corpus, and one sure to find considerable play impossible, ridiculously Turkish harem dweller and Orientalist fantasy painted by the likes of Goya, Ingres and Manet, and given at festivals. --IndieWire appealing - yes, I sur- opulent new life and reverberant meaning by Mr. Almodóvar, a master of his art. Ledgard lives in a man- rendered - love story. sion brightened with paintings of big nudes, and when you first see him looking at Vera, it’s as if he were Ultimately, Swell Season plays like a sequel –The New York Times viewing another canvas or a photo. Yet this is no ordinary image; rather, it’s a surveillance video…There to Once – complete with plenty of new con- are several genres nimbly folded into Skin which might also be described as an existential mystery, a cert footage - which will surely be music to melodramatic thriller, a medical horror film or just a polymorphous extravaganza. –The New York Times the ears of diehard fans. –Quickflix

Allusions to “Vertigo,” “Rebecca,” and Georges Franju’s great French horror movie “Eyes Without a Face” are intentional: “Skin” is, above all, the creation of a movie fanatic who loves to look. —Entertaiment Weekly

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM FEB 8 & 9 (7:00 & 9:20) FEB 10 & 11 (3:00 matinee, 7:10 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM PUSS IN BOOTS HAPPY FEET 2 CAFÉ DE FLORE THE WHALE Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Canada, 2011, Directors: Suzanne Chisholm & Michael Parfit FEB 5 (3:00 matinee & 7:15 & 9:00) 122 min; French with subtitles; DVD; 14A Canada 2011, 85 minutes; rated G Narrated by Ryan Reynolds FEB 6 & 7 (7:15 & 9:00) HHHH ! The latest from Quebec writer/director ★★★★!--Ottawa Citizen Suzanne Chisholm knows it sounds corny, but she wishes Luna were around Jean-Marc Vallée is a masterpiece, combining to see what a splash he’s still making. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, The Whale is Chisholm’s and SURVIVING PROGRESS two twisty narratives set 40 years apart on her husband Michael Parfit’s revamped mainstream version of Saving Luna, their acclaimed 2007 Directors: Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks Canada, 2011, 87 min; rated G separate continents. In present-day Montreal documentary about the endearing baby orca’s short life and his lasting impact on the humans Based on Ronald Wright’s bestselling book A Short History of Progress, this docu- we meet Antoine, a man who has every reason he persistently befriended. As in their provocative, deeply moving original, The Whale fluidly mentary provides a subversive diagnosis of mankind’s unique abilities and the danger to be happy. He’s played by Kevin Parent, a chronicles how Luna delighted tourists, baffled scientists, frustrated fishers and prompted a “tug- they’ve brought to the world.This is a provocative film, one which gets to the fun- well-known Quebec singer-songwriter. Antoine of-whale” in Nootka Sound between fisheries officials and First Nations protectors. In The Whale, damental nature and effects of the human condition with disturbing precision. is blessed with a beautiful girlfriend, two sweet the story is less political and more personalized. In addition to Reynolds’s buoyant voiceover, the --Vancouver International Film Festival daughters and a job filled with travel and adula- film puts Chisholm and Parfit in front of the camera. It brings their own story - journalists who tion. He’s a DJ who regularly jets to London found themselves becoming emotionally involved and devoted to their subject - into sharper focus. Consider Surviving Progress your primer on all that’s exceedingly flawed about capitalism (over- to perform in clubs. Meanwhile (if that’s the –Victoria Times-Colonist consumption, environmental neglect and the Western world’s untenable economic structures) right word), in 1969 Paris, Jacqueline (Vanessa and how a handful of bigwig bankers pretty much control the fate of humankind. In the same vein Paradis) is a single mother raising Laurent, a as sweeping ‘issue docs’ like The Corporation, Manufacturing Consent and Inside Job, Mathieu young boy with Down syndrome. Vallée cuts Roy and Harold Crooks’ film is a disquieting exploration of the (often skewed) understanding of back and forth between stories, but for most of ‘progress’ throughout human civilization. The film, which takes us to Canada, the U.S., China the film the connection between them is practi- and Brazil, features a who’s who of the planet’s leading scientists, activists and thinkers – Jane cally subliminal. One clue might be Antoine’s Goodall, Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki and Stephen Hawking – as well as a Brazilian eco and Laurent’s shared love of a piece of music cop and a Chinese father and son who’re at odds ideologically.–Nightlife.ca called Café de Flore, written in the ’60s. Is the Paris story just a dream of the past that Antoine (or Carole) is having? Or is Montreal merely a dream of the future? In fact both stories are dreams of the director, who wowed audiences with his award-winning 2005 film C.R.A.Z.Y. A word of advice: When the credits begin to role, stay put and watch the screen. To borrow from the language of music, this is one song in which you don’t want to miss the final note. --National Post

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM FEB 12 (3:00 matinee & 7:00 & 9:00) If there is one iconic image in Canadian art, it must FEB 17 (3:00 & 7:00 & 9:00) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM HAPPY FEET 2 be Tom Thomson, pipe in mouth, daubing paint on a THE MUPPETS FEB 13, 14, 15, 16 (7:00 & 9:00) board in the stern of a canoe. His brief career ended FEB 18 (1:00 & 3:00 & 7:00 & 9:00) in the summer of 1917 in Algonquin Park under WEST WIND: mysterious circumstances, either accidental drown- THE MUPPETS ing or murder most foul. So far on film, in a feature Director: James Bobin USA, THE VISION OF TOM and several documentaries, the enigma of his final 2011, 102 min; rated G Cast: days has consumed most of the narrative about the Jason Segal, Amy Adams, Katy THOMSON eighth member of the Group of Seven. This film sets Perry, Billy Crystal, Rashida Directors: Michèle Hozer & Peter Raymont out to correct that unfortunate skew with a fresh Jones, John Krasinski, Jack Black, Canada, 2011, 90 minutes; Blu-ray look at Thomson’s life and, especially, his art. Ricky Gervais

“West Wind is a great story of a great artist” As in their recent collaboration, Genius Within: “AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT!” - Ottawa Citizen The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, Peter Raymont and –Austin Chronicle Micelle Hozer investigate a genius and the nature “Very enjoyable, visually stunning and thought- Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet of his genius. What made Thomson one of the first ful. As in their recent collaboration, “Genius fan, and his friends discover the to recognize the beauty of the Canadian terroir, Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould”, nefarious plan of oilman Tex portraying our swamps, trees and skies with such Peter Raymont and Michele Hozer investi- Richman to raze the Muppet glorious energy. He witnessed the dramatic colours, gate a genius and the nature of his genius.” Theater and drill for oil. To stage moods and intensity of the woods and responded - The Vancouver International Film Festival The GreatestMuppet Telethon with bold compositions, thick, rhythmic brush- Ever and raise the $10 million strokes and a shocking palette. “Documentaries that touch on Canada’s national needed to save the theater, Walter spirit and our profound sense of ourselves Tom Thomson painted some 45 canvasses and and friends help Kermit reunite are almost as important as the art itself.” over 300 sketches in an extraordinary creative burst the Muppets, who have all gone - David P.Silcox, author & president, Sotheby’s in the last four years of his life. The directors have theirseparate ways: Fozzie now Canada created a very enjoyable, visually stunning and performs with a casino tribute thoughtful reflection on that life. band, Miss Piggy is a plus-size “Remembers Tom Thomson’s life not his death.” fashion editor at Vogue Paris, –The Globe and Mail --Vancouver International Film Festival Animal is in a clinic for anger man- agement, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.

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JAN 7 & 8 PETER PAN 110 min; PG – violence A lovely live-action version from 2003 with all of the wonder, danger and excitement of J.M. Barrie’s original. JAN 14 & 15 THE PRINCESS BRIDE 98 min; PG This fairy-tale parody has become a classic. JAN 21 &22 REAL STEEL 127 min; PG - violence Hugh Jackman stars in an action ride set in the near- future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, with steel robots 8 feet tall. JAN 28 & 29 LABYRINTH 101 min; G David Bowie stars in this 1986 fantasy about a illu- sory kingdom inhabited by mystical creatures and governed by the wicked Goblin King. FEB. 4 & 5 PUSS IN BOOTS 91 min; G – violence One of the most beloved characters of the Shrek universe tells the hilarious tale of Puss’s early adven- tures. FEB. 11 & 12 HAPPY FEET 2 100 min; G We return to Antarctica, and the world’s most famous tap-dancing penguin, Mumble and the love of his life, Gloria. FEB. 18 & 19 THE MUPPETS 102 min; G Jason Segel stars as the world’s biggest Muppet fan who helps Kermit reunite the Muppets in order to save their old theatre. With a great guest cast! sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM TEN-FILM DISCOUNT PASS JAN 3 & 4 & 5 (7:00 & 9:25) JAN 6 (3:00 matinee, 7:00 & 9:35) PETER PAN THE WAY JAN 7 (3:10 matinee, 7:00 & 9:35) Director: Emilio Estevez USA/Spain, 2011, 122 minutes; PG MONEYBALL Cast: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger Director: Bennett Miller USA, 2011, 134 minutes; PG “ONE OF THE MORE JOYOUS MOVIES OF THE YEAR!” Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill –Filmcritic.com SALE Brad Pitt delivers a classic star turn, but one that isn’t showy. He’s so likeable in this role don’t be “A SWEET AND SINCERE FAMILY PILGRIMAGE. AUDIENCES surprised if he’s nominated for the Best Actor Oscar! SEEKING UPLIFT WILL FIND IT HERE.” –Roger Ebert Jan. 4-10 “LIKE A COLD BEER UNDER A BLUEBIRD SKY – ‘MONEYBALL’ SATISFIES.” –Washington Post “OPEN YOURSELF UP TO THIS THOUGHTFUL, PERSONAL Based on Michael Lewis’ ADVENTURE.” –Rolling Stone 10 MOVIES nonfiction bestseller There’s a contemplative loveliness to The Way, an affecting “Moneyball: The Art of personal project both for Emilio Estevez, who wrote, directed, Winning an Unfair Game,” FOR $50.00 and plays a small role, and for his father, Martin Sheen. Sheen the book’s subject is plays a self-absorbed eye doctor who begins to see the world Oakland A’s general manag- with new eyes as he makes a pilgrimage along the historical er Billy Beane, who assem- Camino de Santiago — the Way of Saint James — across the bled a contending baseball Available to Cinemagic Pyrenees. As he meets other pilgrims, this humbled doctor club on a shoestring budget discovers what it means to be engaged in one’s own life. by employing a sophisticat- –Entertainment Weekly ed computer-based analy- members, UVic faculty, staff, sis to draft players. –Sony alumni & students and seniors. Pictures Limit of two per customer. On sale at the Munchie Bar & the Box Office

KIDS MATINEE SUN 1PM JAN 11 & 12 (7:00 & 9:10) JAN 13 & 14 (3:00 matinee, 7:10 & 9:10) KIDS MATINEE SAT 1PM PETER PAN JAN 10 (7:00 & 9:10) THE PRINCESS BRIDE STARBUCK MARGIN CALL 50/50 JAN 8 & 9 (7:15 & 9:15) Director: Ken Scott Director: J.C. Chandor USA, 2011, 107 min; 14A Director: Jonathan Levine (Canada, 2011, Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore. USA, 2011, 101 minutes; 14A no Sunday matinee 110 min; French Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “****! THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE ABOUT WALL STREET!” –The Globe and Mail THE GUARD with subtitles; 14A) Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick Director: John Michael McDonagh This crowd-pleaser “EASILY THE BEST WALL STREET MOVIE EVER MADE.” –The New Yorker When doctors discover a tumour in his Ireland, 2011, 97 minutes; 14A was Cinecenta’s back, Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) gets Mystery Movie back “YOU COULD DESCRIBE MARGIN CALL AS A THRILLER (IT’S WIRED WITH SUSPENSE), YET THE his survival odds and the movie gets Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, in November. TENSION ALL COMES FROM WORDS.” –Entertainment Weekly its title. The rest spins his potentially Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Fionnula Flanagan terminal cancer into a buoyant romcom, WINNER! MOST “A TERRIFIC PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT!” –Arizona Weekly an unlikely partnership that, dancing “Among the most purely entertaining POPULAR adroitly between the drama and the films of the year, which cuts its laugh- CANADIAN FILM “A HELL OF A PICTURE. laughs, works remarkably well. Seth ter with a dose of Celtic melancholy.” AWARD –Vancouver AND SHREWD.” –New York Rogen is there to dole out his trademark –Empire The brother of playwright and International Film Magazine yuks, Anna Kendrick is a counsellor plus In Bruges filmmaker Martin McDonagh, Festival the budding love interest, and Joseph This tense Wall Street thriller director John Michael McDonagh shows Gordon-Levitt is touchingly restrained. follows the staff of a high- a flash of Tarantino-esque style (with a distinctly Irish lilt) in his delightful debut, combining a blackly Patrick Huard stars You’d expect black comedy here, not powered brokerage firm comic tone, a cops-and-drug-smugglers story and an obvious sense of pleasure in the joys of snappy, as David, a middle- these brighter hues. Expect this to be a in the 24 hours before the philosophically inclined dialogue. The Guard is set in a small town in a Gaelic-speaking region of County aged screw-up who finds out he has more than huge crowd-pleaser – I’d put the odds at stock market crash of 2008. Galway, where sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) has been content to observe the idiocy of the 500 children thanks to sperm he donated over 90/10. – The Globe and Mail Featuring an all-star cast, local toughs, sleep with the occasional hooker and spend time with his terminally ill ma. Suddenly, a crime 20 years ago in this charming Québécois com- Margin Call was one of the involving cocaine and a few murders arrives on his doorstep, bringing with it uptight FBI agent Wendell edy. Tired of his slacker lifestyle, David sets out most talked about films of the Everett (Don Cheadle). But The Guard is Gleeson’s show, The Irish actor is both the comic center and the to become a guardian angel for his children. Sundance Film Festival. melancholy heart of this film. –Time Out New York --The Globe and Mail

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