Oct 1-7: The Palme d'Or Winning Horror Film, Titane Opens! Cat Video Fest Arrives, Ennio Morricone's The Mission & More!

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The Palme d'Or-winning film from this year, Titane opens on Friday. This Cronenberg-inspired body-horror will knock your socks off: exquisite and uniquely strange, you have to see it to believe it.

"The most shocking film of 2021" - BBC

"One of the wildest films ever to screen at Cannes." - IndieWire


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Coming up on Oct 7th & 9th are two screenings of Cat Video Fest 2021! Love cats and supporting good causes? Come out this weekend, get tickets and enjoy a feel-good time at the movies! Limited seating, this event always sells out. Get out and support! 

A portion of proceeds will be donated to the KW/SP Humane Society! 


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All last week, The Eyes of Tammy Faye was a big hit at the Twin, and this week it's held over! Jessica Chastain gives an Oscar-worthy performance in this film about the real life, disgraced televangelist (& LGBTQ hero!), Tammy Faye Bakker. 

"I would not have expected Jessica Chastain to give one of the most heartfelt performances of her career buried under several pounds of latex and rhinestones, but here we are, and here is The Eyes Of Tammy Faye." - NOW Toronto


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I'm Your Man is the unexpected rom-com of the year. Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey's Matthew Crawley) is fantastic and hilarious as an android manufactured for love and companionship, with surprising results. 

"The film's disarming romcom sensibilities are an unlikely yet fitting vehicle for timely ruminations on AI." - Slant

"There's unexpected depth to this smart, Berlin-set relationship comedy." - Observer


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The celebration of the work of Ennio Morricone continues this week with screenings of The Mission. 

"Ennio Morricone’s 1986 score for The Mission is, undoubtedly, one of those scores which ticks every box, a masterpiece on every conceivable level." - Movie Music UK.

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More from Il Maestro coming with these unforgettable scores:

Oct 9-10, 13: John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)

Oct 16 & 17: Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)


LAMB OPENS ON OCTOBER 8th! 

We're thrilled to be opening the latest horror from A24, the studio that brought audiences The Witch, Hereditary and Midsommar. "Lamb is a disturbing experience but also a highly original take on the anxieties of being a parent, a tale in which nature plus nurture yields a nightmare." - Hollywood Reporter

"An emotional film that will stick with you long after it has ended." - AIPT

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FILMS SHOWING Friday October 1 to Thursday October 7
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"Ducournau... delivers a mindblower that keeps you guessing for all of the film's excellent 108 minutes." - Globe & Mail

Thrillingly provocative and original, Titane reaffirms writer-director Julia Ducournau's delightfully disturbing vision.

WINNER OF THE 2021 Palme d'Or AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 

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It's back! The best cat videos from around the world!

CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and, of course, classic internet powerhouses.

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'The Mission' features one of Morricone's most famous and beloved scores, including the enduring song, 'Gabriel's Oboe'

"There are moments in film music history where you can listen to a score, and upon its conclusion sit back and be content in the knowledge that you have just experienced a genuine masterpiece. It doesn’t happen very often, because it has to be a perfect combination of everything that can possibly make a film score great.

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"She's a thrill to watch, and I hope Chastain doesn't have to wait another ten years until she can do something this grand and captivating again." - Vanity Fair

An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (Jessica Chastain).

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A troubled police detective demoted to 911-operator duty scrambles to save a distressed caller during a harrowing day of revelations -- and reckonings.

"Jake Gyllenhaal doesn’t need a performance vehicle to prove he’s one of the best actors of his generation, but that’s exactly what he gets in The Guilty. He delivers a turn that is compellingly complex, taking the audience on an emotional roller-coaster that results in one of his best performances yet.

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"'I'm Your Man' is science-fiction with soul and a romance written for adults. Just like its mechanical hero, this tender film is attractive, smart and cunningly designed to win your heart." - Empire

A playfully romantic tale, I’M YOUR MAN questions what love and longing really mean in the modern age.

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"It's a unique, indelible and hilarious film, and certainly one of the best of its era." - Combustible Celluloid

New York City layabout Willie (John Lurie) and his dopey sidekick, Eddie (Richard Edson), get by on TV dinners and beer financed by haphazard card-sharking. Willie gets an unwelcome visit from his Hungarian teen cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), but, just as he warms to her, she ditches him for her aunt in Cleveland.

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Studio Ghibli series. "One of the most weirdly, wonderfully built worlds of Hayao Miyazaki." - LarsenOnFilm

“The first wholly Miyazaki film (and the movie that gave birth to Studio Ghibli) is 1984’s inventive, disturbing, and lyrical Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

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TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

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Exclusive! From A24. Noomi Rapace adopts a uniquely strange baby in striking motherhood horror

Icelandic folktale on top, Nordic livestock horror on bottom. From the studio that brought audiences Hereditary and Midsommar.

"A dark and sinister folk-horror tale." - Variety

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From Executive Producer, Taika Waititi, 'Night Raiders' is "a searing thriller set in the near future, [it] digs deep into Canada’s painful past to craft a compelling, propulsive piece of genre cinema." - TIFF

"Night Raiders should become the most talked-about Canadian film of the year. And for good reason." - Globe and Mail

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An achingly poignant anti-war film, 'Grave of the Fireflies' is one of Studio Ghibli's most profoundly beautiful, haunting works.

A teenager is charged with the care of his younger sister after an Allied firebombing during World War II destroys their home and kills their mother.

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"Ennio is one of the great composers, he was brilliant. He was like an X-ray composer. He brought out the theme of the movie that hadn't been thought of before." - John Carpenter

In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims.

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"One of the most self-assured debuts of all time, a work so certain in its conception and execution that almost 40 years later I'd still quickly rank it as one of Argento's finest." - Film4

"Like much of Dario Argento’s early work, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a thing of beauty. It is a piece of cinematic art. It boasts gorgeous set design and beautiful cinematography. Moreover, the wardrobe and styling are a perfect encapsulation of the era in which the film was shot.

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"A masterclass in horror cinema. Funny, scary, entertaining. You can't go wrong with Scream." - HorrorQueers

The sleepy little town of Woodsboro just woke up screaming. There's a killer in their midst who's seen a few too many scary movies. Suddenly nobody is safe, as the psychopath stalks victims, taunts them with trivia questions, then rips them to bloody shreds. It could be anybody...

"Clever, quick and bloody funny." - Empire Magazine

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All Work And No Play...

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Coming Soon!

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From award-winning director Ben Lewin, Falling For Figaro follows a brilliant young fund manager named Millie, who quits her job and ends things with her longterm boyfriend in order to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer -- in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop.

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A filmmaking couple go to the island where Ingmar Bergman was inspired and find that the lines between reality and fiction start to blur.

A couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films.

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"The Rescue immerses the audience in a dangerous odyssey in which every second and every gulp of air counts. Don't forget to breathe." - POV Magazine

WINNER! BEST DOCUMENTARY, TIFF 2021. From the directors that brought audiences 'Free Solo', THE RESCUE chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

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Louis Wain was many things during his incredible life: artist, inventor, entrepreneur and caretaker. After adopting a stray kitten, he went on to paint the extraordinary images of cats that made him world famous.

An eccentric artist (Benedict Cumberbatch) introduces Victorian London to the delights of cats, in Will Sharpe’s enlightening biopic.

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