Showtimes Apr 1-7: The Velvet Queen; Learn to Swim; Vertigo; The Godfather at 50!

Opens Friday! From the filmmakers behind 'March of the Penguins.'

"Nature documentaries don’t get much better than THE VELVET QUEEN, a captivating journey to the Tibetan mountains, where we follow two men on a quest to find and photograph the elusive, reclusive snow leopard." - San Jose Mercury

"One of the most breathtaking documentaries of this or any year." - Newport Week

Soundtrack by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Get tickets for THE VELVET QUEEN here!

3 Shows Only! April 2, 3 & 6. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's Academy Award-winning masterwork The Godfather, the film is receiving a limited theatrical re-release in a stunning 4K restoration. See it on the big screen!

Get tickets for THE GODFATHER!

LEARN TO SWIM opens April 1 for a one-week engagement! Selected as one of Canada's Top 10 Films of 2021. "A musical meditation on love and loss... Learn To Swim is a window on the contemporary jazz scene. It’s also a portrait of the workaday world of musicians whose excitement over their creative efforts is muted by their hardscrabble profession." - TIFF

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Hitchcock's masterpiece VERTIGO. Considered by many to be THE BEST FILM OF ALL TIME. Don't miss seeing it on the Playhouse's big, beautiful steak, I mean screen!

April 2, 4 & 5. Get tickets for VERTIGO!

Terry Gilliam's TIME BANDITS (1981)

April 1st. ONE SHOW ONLY at 9:15!

Director Gilliam’s second feature is a lavish concoction of wild and wicked fancy. One fateful night Kevin, an 11-year-old with a passion for history, discovers a time-and-space portal in his bedroom wall and a gaggle of dwarves who teach him how to use it, paying visits to Ian Holm’s Napoleon, John Cleese’s Robin Hood, Sean Connery’s King Agamemnon, and the land of unbounded imagination that is the Time of Legend. A fractured fairy tale that thrilled and delighted every kid who saw it.

April 1. Get tickets for TIME BANDITS!

Coming Soon to the Playhouse

2021 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (aka The World's Best Commercials)

April 1 - 7. Tickets on sale now!

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The Velvet Queen

"Gorgeous, humbling, looking out-, up- and inward, the documentary 'The Velvet Queen' is the rare nature film about not only beauty and beasts but also the very human urge to make sense of our place in it all." - Los Angeles Times

"Nature documentaries don’t get much better than Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier’s captivating journey to the Tibetan mountains, where we follow two men on a quest to find and photograph the elusive, reclusive snow leopard.

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Time Bandits

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Young history buff Kevin (Craig Warnock) can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras.

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The Godfather - 50th Anniversary 4K restoration

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"50 years after its release, 'The Godfather' is now and forever, one of the greats." - Niagara Gazette

THE GODFATHER 50th Anniversary Re-release. 4K restoration and remaster. See it on the big screen!

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's Academy Award-winning masterwork The Godfather, the film is receiving a limited theatrical re-release.

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Learn to Swim

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Selected as One of Canada's Top 10 Films of 2021

"A musical meditation on love and loss, Thyrone Tommy’s debut feature Learn To Swim follows Dezi (Thomas Antony Olajide), a doggedly private, very talented sax player, and Selma (Emma Ferreira), a vivacious but less experienced singer. When they meet, sparks fly, but their respective emotional baggage and their temperaments make the road to romance bumpy at best.

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Vertigo

Voted in 2012 'Best Film of All Time - by UK's Sight & Sound Magazine.

One of Hitchcock's most discussed films. Retired police detective Stewart, who has a fear of heights, is hired by old school chum in San Francisco to keep an eye on his wife (Novak), eventually falls in love with his quarry... and that's just the beginning; to reveal more would be unthinkable.

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FREE SCREENING: C.R.A.Z.Y.

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Tribute to the late Jean-Marc Vallée on National Canadian Film Day

On Dec 25, 2021, Canada lost one of its best, most important filmmakers, Jean Marc Vallée. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) was his third feature film and the one that put him on the map.

Free screening! Part of National Canadian Film Day.

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Fantastic Planet

René Laloux's mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and is a landmark of European animation.

This animated tale follows the relationship between the small human-like Oms and their much larger blue-skinned oppressors, the Draags, who rule the planet of Ygam. While the Draags have long kept Oms as illiterate pets, this hierarchy shifts after an Om boy becomes educated, thanks to a young female Draag. This leads to an Om rebellion, which weakens the Draag control over their race.

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Reel Rock 16 - World Tour - Hamilton

Climbing's most anticipated annual world film tour!

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The Reel Rock Film Tour, one of climbing’s greatest celebrations, comes to Hamilton with a new collection of world premiere films.

For 15 years and counting, REEL ROCK has been sharing the stories of our climbing community. We produce films that celebrate the human side behind our sport’s great adventures.

Alien (Playhouse)

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The science fiction horror classic, back on the big screen!

PART OF OUR APRIL 26 ALIEN DAY DOUBLE FEATURE!

Get tickets to the 9:15PM show of Aliens (1986) here!

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Aliens (Playhouse)

The essential-viewing sequel to the original science fiction classic!

Part of our April 26 Alien Day Double Feature!

Get tickets to the 7:00PM show of Alien (1979) here!

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This Much I Know to Be True

The new feature film directed by Andrew Dominik, featuring Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, captures their exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life songs from albums Ghosteen and Carnage.

Shot on location in London & Brighton, THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums, Ghosteen (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis).

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