Feb 18-24: More Oscar! Parallel Mothers, Worst Person in the World. The Room in 35mm! Director Q&A

Oscar-nominated films are taking over the Playhouse for another weekend of brand new releases! Plus, get ready for a Midnight Madness screening of The Room on 35mm film + Last of the Right Whales Director Q&A!

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Director Pedro Almodovar returns with his new Oscar-nominated film, Parallel Mothers, starting this Friday with advance tickets on-sale now!

"Note to Oscar: Make sure a best actress nomination happens for the blazing Penelope Cruz in this emotional powerhouse from director Pedro Almodovar about a Madrid photographer coping with an unplanned pregnancy and a tangled political past." - Peter Travers, ABC News

Oscar answered: Done!

Everyone is buzzing about The Worst Person in the World, the new Oscar-nominated film (Best International Film, Best Original Screenplay) from Norway. Featuring stand-out performances, it's romantic, fun and ideal for people who don't like rom-coms! We loved it. Opens exclusively at the Playhouse this Friday! Get tickets here!

"I fell in love with The Worst Person in the World and you will too. This is a gloriously funny, moving, sexy, and smart romantic dramedy that subverts all expectations." - Awards Radar

Midnight Madness screenings are returning to the Playhouse, starting this Friday with the 'Citizen Kane of Bad Films', The Room (in 35mm!)

This is the type of screening you come to with friends; unwind, relax, grab a drink and laugh. Also, you might want to consider bringing spoons, or wearing a tux. You know why if you've already seen The Room, and you'll find out why if you haven't. Make a night of it and get tickets here!

This Saturday afternoon (Feb 19) we have a special event at the Playhouse with the director of Last of the Right Whales (Nadine Pequeneza) in attendance for a Q&A. This is a stunning documentary about our oceans and the beautiful wildlife that exists in them. Get tickets, do not miss this chance to support films with great messages. It's a perfect film for families and anyone who loves nature.

"Last of the Right Whales is an important story of hope, impact and action." - Tom Grater, Deadline

Starting this weekend, we're honouring Oscar-winning actor and trailblazer, Sidney Poitier, with screenings of the 1968 Best Picture Oscar-winner, In The Heat of the Night. Get tickets! We have more from Sidney coming with To Sir, With Love & A Raisin in the Sun, this month and next! This is a rare chance to see these classics on the big screen.

Coming Soon to the Playhouse

Oscar Nominated Short Films are arriving next weekend with the Animated Shorts, along with the Live Action Shorts!

We're the only place in town where you can catch up on these fantastic short films. These screens are popular each year, so scroll down to get advance tickets today! Documentary Short Films are coming soon, as well!

More midnight madness! Seeing a film at the Playhouse can sometimes feel like a party, and that's the exact vibe we're going for on Feb 26 with our ONE NIGHT ONLY screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Advance tickets are on-sale now! Banish the winter blahs and get ready for a fun night at the movies, dress up, bring friends and enjoy! Don't dream it, be it!

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See you at the movies this Friday!

Last of the Right Whales

"Featuring breathtaking cinematography of this rarely seen, 60-ton great whale, Last of the Right Whales will resonate with audiences long after the final frame fades to black." - Nadine Pequeneza, Director and Producer

Director in Attendance for Q & A (opening screeening only)!

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Parallel Mothers

14A

Oscar Nominated for Best Actress and Best Original Score

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The Worst Person in the World

"The kind of movie which reminds you just how beguiling top-tier cinema can be, Joachim Trier's 'The Worst Person in the World' is a triumph." - Awards Watch

Oscar nominated for Best Original Screenplay and International Film

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Drive My Car

14A

Winner of the 2021 Golden Globe for Best International Feature. "A masterpiece." - Wall Street Journal

Nominated for 4 Oscars (Best Picture, Director, International Feature, Adapted Screenplay.)

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Belfast

Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

Nominated for 7 Oscars! Including: Best Picture, Best Director, and Original Screenplay

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The Room in 35mm

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"To make a movie so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitiously Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent." - The Guardian

“Tommy Wiseau’s The Room may be the first true successor to the Rocky Horror throne. Wiseau's Johnny is the noblest of boyfriends and most capable of lovers. But none of that satisfies his fiancée Lisa, a wicked Jezebel whose boredom with Johnny manifests in a brazen affair with his best friend.

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In the Heat of the Night - Sidney Poitier Tribute

Winner of 5 Oscars, including Best Picture. "Sidney Poitier is pure charisma as Virgil Tibbs, the Philadelphia policeman whose between-trains stopover in a small Southern town is indefinitely extended when he’s first implicated in, then asked to assist with a local murder investigation." - Time Out

"It was the slap heard round the world.

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HAMILTON - Paddling Film Festival 2021

Hosted by Outdoor Adventures Hamilton

Paddling adventures: flat or rough, single paddle or a double, extreme, serene or just right for you...

It's 2022 you say, not so fast!! Why throw away perfectly good paddling flicks? We're sneaking in the 2021 films just before the new ones premier (There's plenty of time in 2022 for the new ones).

Join us for the PADDLING Film Festival - 2021 films, no bells and whistles at the screening (holding off on the door prizes for now) but there will be the awesome Playhouse Cinema snack bar (beer, wine and real butter!!). Don't worry we're following the COVID rules...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A classic Princess Cinemas tradition you never want to miss! Don't come alone...

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2022 Oscar-Nominated Shorts - Animated

The year's best animated shorts. For mature audiences only.

For the 17th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)!

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Compartment No. 6

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Traveling by train from Moscow to Murmansk, a Finnish student forms an unlikely friendship with a gruff Russian miner.

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

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A Raisin in the Sun - Sidney Poitier Tribute

Sidney Poitier Remembered. "A groundbreaking work that manages to be both specific to the African-American experience and universal in its themes of hope, change, and upward mobility." - Screen Daily

Lorraine Hansberry’s immortal A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie.

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To Sir, With Love - Sidney Poitier Tribute

Remembering Sidney Poitier. "An undeniable classic." - Variety

American Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) recently received his degree in engineering, but cannot find work. To make ends meet, he takes a job as a teacher in a rough London East End school populated mostly with troublemakers who were rejected from other schools for their behavior.

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2022 Oscar-Nominated Shorts - Live Action

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The 94th Academy Awards: Oscars Live Broadcast at the Playhouse!

Pre-registration required! Sign up here!

FREE with non-perishable food donation to Hamilton Food Share.

We also will be accepting cash donations for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation: Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal.

Join us for a casual, come-as-you-are (or dress-to-the-nines, your choice!) evening celebrating the 94th Academy Awards®! Red carpet starts at 6:30pm.

Enjoy Hollywood's most glamourous night in the grand comfort of the elegant Playhouse Cinema!

West Side Story (2021)

"Mr. Spielberg did not waste his time-or ours. The new West Side Story is simply fabulous." - Observer

Nominated for 7 Oscars, including: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematograpgy!

Love at first sight strikes when young Tony spots Maria at a high school dance in 1957 New York City. Their burgeoning romance helps to fuel the fire between the warring Jets and Sharks -- two rival gangs vying for control of the streets.

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Licorice Pizza

"Paul Thomas Anderson's sunniest movie yet, this San Fernando Valley palimpsest is so buoyant and bubbly, it practically floats off the screen." - Time Out

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay)

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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