Weekend Movie Tickets Are Here! September 10th - 12th & Beyond!

Let's see some films this weekend! We have an amazing line-up of new releases starting today! Scroll down to get tickets!

We keep it simple and it's really easy to get advance tickets to any film! Simply scroll down and click on the film(s) you want to see with us... and that's it!

Tons of great films on-tap this weekend, so scroll down, get tickets and plan ahead!

Looking ahead to next week... A one-night-only screening on the 16th of David Byrne's American Utopia. The acclaimed concert film, from director Spike Lee, is coming to cinemas for a special one-night-only showing. The event will also feature a new introduction from Byrne and will also show a never-before-seen conversation between Byrne and Lee.

Plus later this month, we are proud to present The 2021 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. Tickets are on-sale now with Grand River Rocks! This event sells out each year, so get tickets today!

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See you at the movies this Friday!

FILMS SHOWING Friday September 10 to Thursday September 16

The Card Counter

"Paul Schrader has spent much of his career peering into the dark abyss of troubled men's souls. He creates another subject eminently worthy of such examination in the title figure of The Card Counter..." - Hollywood Reporter

Paul Schrader is back with a vengeance with “The Card Counter,” his feature directorial follow-up to “First Reformed.” Schrader’s latest finds Oscar Isaac sinking his teeth into the kind of tormented male protagonist role that Schrader has perfected in the likes of “Raging Bull,” “Taxi Driver,” and more.

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Rush: Cinema Strangiato - Director's Cut 2021 [Princess Twin]

Sept 10th, 8:00pm. Princess TWIN. One Night Only. New Footage! Special Presentation. Tickets on sale now! We will be serving the new, RUSH Canadian Golden Ale from Henderson's Brewing! Pre-order drinks and snacks!

‘RUSH: Cinema Strangiato - Director's Cut contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.'

The Hidden Life of Trees

"'The Hidden Life of Trees' uses the sensorial capacities of cinema to thrillingly visualize Wohlleben's observations" - NY Times

Renowned forester and author Peter Wohlleben discusses the life, death and regeneration of trees. "Based on the 2015 best-selling book of the same title, 'The Hidden Life of Trees' is a documentary both simple and startling." - Globe & Mail

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Princess Mononoke

14A

Studio Ghibli series

“Princess Mononoke boasts many elements of classic animated fantasy - gorgeous drawings, fast action, inventive creatures, a courageous hero, a beautiful, a defiant princess, an ethereal spirit and a monster who'd send Godzilla screaming into the night.

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Blade Runner Double Bill

14A

Two Films, One Ticket! Blade Runner: The Final Cut + Blade Runner 2049

On November 20, ex-Blade Runner Rick Deckard returns to his job to retire the escaped replicants led by Roy.

See two Blade Runners for the price of one. Get fully immersed and maybe you can answer the question, "do androids dream of electric sheep?"

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Drunken Master II

"Heeere's Jackie, ageless and great, before refitting himself to Western specs." - EW Weekly

"If I was ever asked to suggest a film that best exemplifies the best of Jackie Chan, there is no question this would be it."

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The Green Knight

The Green Knight honors and deconstructs its source material in equal measure, producing an absorbing adventure that casts a fantastical spell.

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.

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Respect

"Aretha Franklin was right: Jennifer Hudson is the ideal person to play the Queen of Soul." - Sioux Sentinel

Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career -- from a child singing in her father's church choir to her international superstardom -- it's the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.

"Hudson sure steps up to the challenge, dazzling with the song that lends its name to the film's title." - Time Out

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The Lost Leonardo

The inside story of the painting that seduced the world. It's not just art ... it's power, politics and greed.

THE LOST LEONARDO tells the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.

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COMING SOON TO THE PRINCESS

Cinema Paradiso: Princess' Birthday & Ennio Morricone Celebration

Help us celebrate the Princess's 36th birthday, cinema and the beautiful film music of Ennio Morricone. 1989 admission prices! We will be accepting donations to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region

Ticket still available. Limited capacity! In May 1989, the Princess was in its 4th year as KW's independent arthouse cinema. In the spring of that year, we were thrilled to premiere the winner of the 1989 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Cinema Paradiso.

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David Byrne - American Utopia [Playhouse]

Sept. 16th, 6:45pm. One Night Only! Special Presentation. Tickets on sale now.

The acclaimed concert film, from director Spike Lee, is coming to cinemas for a special one-night-only showing. The event will also feature a new introduction from Byrne and will also show a never-before-seen conversation between Byrne and Lee.

The 2021 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Sept 24 - 26, Original Princess. Tickets on sale now via Eventbrite. Limited capacity!

CO-PRESENTED WITH GRAND RIVER ROCKS!

We're excited to bring back The 2021 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour to the Princess & the big screen!

Prisoners of the Ghostland

"Is 'Prisoners of the Ghostland.' as he claimed, truly the wildest movie Nicolas Cage has ever made? If not, it's certainly in the running." - The Thrillist

In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway.

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Blue Bayou

An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival

From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved daughter Jessie.

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Ennio Morricone Celebration: Once Upon A Time in the West

'Once Upon a Time in the West' is composer Ennio Morricone's “triumph. It’s one of the great scores all time, and launched that movie into another place: epic opera. It’s the ultimate in composing. You can’t get better and more profound than that.” - Director & composer, John Carpenter

"Renowned Italian director Sergio Leone had achieved what many believed to be the pinnacle of success in 1966, following completion of the last film of his famous Dollars trilogy, 'The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly'. Despite receiving universal accolades, he decided that he had said everything he wanted to say, and would not be returning to the Western genre.

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