comedy

Vancouver 15 – THE SANDWICH NAZI – BC Spotlight

First Festival Screening – September 27, 2015 @ 8:45 PM at The Rio Theatre Last Festival Screening – October 3, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at The Rio Theatre If you can’t take the nudity and coarse language, stay out of Salam Kahil’s deli. The moment Lewis Bennett’s fascinating documentary takes us inside the shop, the […]

Vancouver 15 – NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT – BC Spotlight

First Festival Screening – September 26, 2015 @ 8:30 PM at The Rio Theatre Last Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 4:00 PM at The SFU Woodwards Here’s an interesting premise: Women develop the ability to reproduce asexually. Furthermore, males are no longer being born and have become, unsurprisingly, an endangered species. They’ve disappeared […]

Ottawa Animation 15 – HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 – Special Screening

Festival Screening – September 20, 2015 @ 5:00 PM at The ByTowne Cinema Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting […]

TIFF 15 – FAMILIES – World Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 13, 2015 @ 6:45 PM at The Princess of Wales Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 3:15 PM at Isabel Bader Also known as Belles Familles Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Grand Budapest Hotel) stars in this rollicking and romantic country-house farce from […]

Ottawa Animation 15 – POS ESO – Featured Competition

The film is also known as Possessed. First Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at The ByTowne Cinema Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 5:00 at The ByTowne Cinema Trini, the world famous flamenco dancer, has abandoned the stage and is deeply depressed after her bullfighting husband dies. Damian, her […]

TIFF 15 – PORTAL TO HELL!!! – World Premiere

Part of Short Cuts Programme 4 First Festival Screening – September 12, 2015 @ 10:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 6:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre The superintendent hero of this primo slice of Canuxploitation already has enough on his plate, but then some jerks open up […]

TIFF 15 – THE LADY IN THE VAN – World Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 12, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox Last Festival Screening – September 14, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre The legendary Maggie Smith stars in this adaptation of the based-on-fact play by acclaimed author Alan Bennett (The Madness of King George), about a high-born homeless […]

aGLIFF 15 – FOURTH MAN OUT – Opening Night Film

First Festival Screening – September 10, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at South Lamar Theater Last Festival Screening – September 10, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at South Lamar Theater Its Adam’s 24th birthday, and he feels that this is the perfect opportunity to come clean and reveal his secret: He’s gay to his three best guy […]

TIFF 15 – DEMOLITION – Opening Night Film

First Festival Screening – September 10, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at Princess of Wales Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 11, 2015 @ 12:00 PM at Roy Thomson Hall Grief-stricken after a family tragedy, a New York investment banker (Jake Gyllenhaal) engages in random acts of destruction, in the highly anticipated new film by Jean-Marc […]

Portland 15 – THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF JOJO (AND HIS ANNOYING LITTLE SISTER, AVILA)

Festival Screening – September 4, 2015 @ 2:15 PM at Clinton Street Theater A six-year-old boy named Jojo who wakes up from a car accident deep in the woods. He reluctantly pulls his baby sister out of the wreckage, plops her into his backpack, and together they try to make it home alive; encountering deranged […]