What A Weekend! Get Tickets! Oscar Shorts, Rocky Horror, Compartment No. 6, Worst Person in the World & More!

It's the last weekend of February and as we head into spring, don't hesitate to stop by the Playhouse and see some of the best films of the year! Get advance tickets to all screenings here!

This weekend, we're opening both the Animated & Live Action, Oscar Nominated Short Films!

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These hard-to-see films cannot be seen anywhere else on the big screen, so grab tickets and see them this weekend!

What can we say? We're so lucky to be able to bring you Compartment No.6 this weekend! This Cannes Film Festival winning picture has limited screenings at the Playhouse, get tickets here!

"It's an improbably beautiful film about strangers on a train coming to terms with each other as they make peace with their troubled selves." - Wall Street Journal

One-Night-Only this Saturday for The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Last we checked, tickets for this screening are selling fast, plan ahead and get yours here!

This is a great film to bring friends to, dress up and enjoy an evening unlike any other.

Held-Over! We've has such a great reception for The Worst Person in the World that the Oscar Nominated film will continue this weekend and into next week!

Check out a film that is the perfect coming-of-age story for everyone in their 30's! Get tickets here!

"The romantic drama for people who hate romantic dramas." - Peter Howell, Toronto Star

Our 'Remembering Sidney Poitier' series continues this weekend with a film that hardly ever makes it back to the big screen... Get tickets today for the 1961, epic, A Raisin in the Sun. One more screening coming up next week on the 2nd!

"First things first. Sidney Poitier is one of the true artists of our time." - New York Daily News

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See you at the movies this Friday!

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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2022 Oscar-Nominated Shorts - Live Action

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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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Cinema Paradiso: 3rd Anniversary Screening. FREE for Members

Help us celebrate our 3rd anniversary. FREE for Playhouse Members

"A famous filmmaker returns to the Sicilian village where he grew up. He reminisces about the projectionist at the local cinema, his best friend as a child, who taught him to love cinema."

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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

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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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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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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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Belle (2021)

"Colors and hearts explode in 'Belle,' and your head might too while watching this gorgeous anime." - New York Times

From the celebrated Academy Award®-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu, creators of Mirai, Wolf Children, Summer Wars, and more, comes a fantastical, heartfelt story of growing up in the age of social media.

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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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The Stephen King Universe at the Playhouse Presents: Christine

Stephen King Films Arrive at the Playhouse, Starting with the Horror Classic, Christine!

Welcome to the Stephen King Universe at the Playhouse...

Gather with friends and family to see some of the best Stephen King adaptations on the big screen at the historic Playhouse Cinema!

We're starting this series with John Carpenter's 1983 classic CHRISTINE in 4K!

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North by Northwest on 35mm

Part of our Hitchcock 'Selectrospective'.

New York City ad executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is pursued by ruthless spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason) after Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent. Hunted relentlessly by Vandamm's associates, the harried Thornhill ends up on a cross-country journey, meeting the beautiful and mysterious Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) along the way.

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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!

Rheostatics: Live at the Playhouse / With Corin Raymond opening

Saturday, April 9, 8:00pm. A few tickets available!

Ever bound for ragged glory, Rheostatics occupy a unique place in the Canadian music landscape, pulled together and apart for nearly forty years. Finding grace in the reality of endurance, Rheostatics show us a special type of longevity, through upheaval, personal (and personnel) change, and a basic refusal to play the game in any way, shape or form, stretched over decades.

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What A Weekend! Get Tickets! Oscar Shorts, Rocky Horror, Compartment No. 6, Worst Person in the World & More!