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Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.

Santa Claus is coming to town . . . and this time he’s got an axe! Community leaders tried to stop it. The P.T.A. fought to ban it. Now, one of the most controversial slasher films of all time is back in a new restoration from the original camera negative.

A seasoned showgirl must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.

The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star in Pedro Almodóvar's first full-length English-language feature

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

 

Follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa.

Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings.

Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.

Santa Claus is coming to town . . . and this time he’s got an axe! Community leaders tried to stop it. The P.T.A. fought to ban it. Now, one of the most controversial slasher films of all time is back in a new restoration from the original camera negative.

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

It's a new Christmas cult classic!

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

After Edward leaves because of an incident involving Bella, Jacob Black becomes her best friend. But what Bella doesn't realize is that Jacob also has a secret that will change their lives suddenly.

Get rowdy and celebrate THE DECEMBER NEW MOON with the second film of the ICONIC Twilight franchise! 

Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999.

On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Year's Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives when Y2K becomes a reality.

Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.

Fiery but feeling his years and his illness, ailing filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of lauded documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his avoidance of the Vietnam War draft and his past relationships harbor thorny truths.

Yippee-ki-yay, it's Christmas!

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it.

After 20 years Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he finds his wife held prisoner by suitors vying to be king and his son facing death at their hands.

After 20 years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king finds much has changed since he left to fight in the Trojan War. His beloved wife, Penelope, is a prisoner in her own home and hounded to choose a new husband. Their son faces death at the hands of suitors who see him as an obstacle in their pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom.

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.

When Romy, the high-powered executive played by Nicole Kidman, starts cheating on her urbane theatre director husband (Antonio Banderas), it’s not because their sex life has dimished. There’s still significant heat between them, but when he goes to sleep, Romy sneaks out of the room to finish, alone, what she clearly couldn’t achieve with him.

"The Brutalist is a colossal achievement, balancing intimacy and scale at every level of craft." -Screen Rant

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.

Visionary director Luca Guadagnino's masterful and intoxicating adaptation of William S. Burroughs novella Queer

Set in 1950s Mexico City, Queer follows Lee (Daniel Craig) who, after fleeing from a drug bust in New Orleans, finds himself adrift among the night life and outcasts of the city. He becomes infatuated with drug user Allerton (Drew Starkey), a discharged American Navy serviceman. Based on the novel by William S. Burroughs.

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

1977: Maria Callas, once the world's greatest opera diva, lives in seclusion in Paris with her staff and her two poodles. Her health is getting worse and worse. Then she receives a request to go on tour again. Will La Callas sing again? And if so, for whom?

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes.

Reality, imagination, and fantasy blur in this beautifully photographed cult classic, starring Lee Pace as a hospitalized stuntman who weaves a fantastical tale of five mythical heroes for his fellow patient, a young girl with a broken arm.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

In the South American jungle, supplies of nitroglycerine are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers on the rough remote roads where the slightest jolt can result in death.

A motley but irresistible crew of animals band together for an unforgettable adventure in the watery world created by animator and filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis.

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

Presented on 35mm as part of Playhouse Cinema's Rewind '99 series!

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

Cardinals gather to elect a new pope in this high-stakes drama based on the Robert Harris novel

Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church.

Winner of the 2024 Palme d'Or!

Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Warren Miller is going big for 75 years!

Stacked with unbelievable action and unexpected stories, Warren Miller’s 75 will bring fans to powder stashes and chutes around the world, from Canada, Colorado, California, and Utah to Finland, Japan, Austria, and New Jersey.

The groundbreaking generative documentary about visionary musician and artist Brian Eno, a film that’s different every time it’s shown.

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno has produced singer David Bowie and bands like Talking Heads, Roxy Music and U2 over his 50-year career.

Here, we take a trip into the mercurial essence of Eno’s specific brand of creativity in a way befitting this musical pioneer.

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

From Ti West comes the third film in the X trilogy. Adult filmstar and aspiring celebrity Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) finds herself entangled in the sleazy world of 1980s Hollywood. As she approaches her big break, a mysterious killer stalking the streets of Los Angeles threatens to reveal her dark past. 


 

Join filmmaker Terrance Odette and cinema programmer Wendy Guymer-Tutt for a post-film discussion of Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror!

Once of the most acclaimed films of all time, Mirror is Andrei Tarkovsky's non-linear meditation on memory, history, dreams, and life and culture in the Soviet Union. As a dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, and personal moments, his dreams begin to collide with the collective memories of the Soviet people.

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In a sloppy attempt to straighten out and fly right, Bike takes on a job running errands for a shady real estate lawyer. Becoming the only witness to a drive-by shooting, Bike’s ambiguously skewed moral compass goes topsy-turvy when he may be endangering everyone in his life, including his daughter and her mother.

​Q&A with director Terrance Odette to follow the film!

Join us for the year's best paddling films!

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Presented with Adventure Attic! Door prizes during intermission!

Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

'Trilogy Pass' holders will be given a complimentary Lord of The Rings 11x17 poster designed by Cloe M. Z. Wagstaffe

Each film will be presented the way Peter Jackson intended, in its full extended version, with a 15-minute intermission.

A woman travels to Portugal in an attempt to orchestrate a reconciliation between her parents.

Successful author, Jonathan Stack has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus. He's let his marriage to Samantha, who is also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she's leaving him for her business partner Luke, a hapless OCD control freak who has loved Sam forever.

Two brothers facing questions of masculinity, family, race and identity.

Special Presentation as part of Black@Waterloo: Black Film Festival

Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

Canada's Top Ten Official Selection TIFF 2022

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