Dir: Richard Ciupka, Canada, 1983, Horror. John Veronon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Torson. City Cinema presents Canuck Killers - screenings of classic Canadian horror movies! Curtains follows six young actresses that are auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion. Then they’re targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Dir: Terrence Malick, US, 1978, Drama. Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard. A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Dir: Quentin Tarantino, US, 1994, Crime. John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson. The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Dir: Neil LaBute, US, 2006, Horror. Nicholas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski. City Cinema presents a So Bad it’s Good screening of the infamous and unintentionally hilarious Nicholas Cage remake of The Wicker Man. A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there’s a larger mystery to solve among the island’s secretive, neo-pagan community. So Bad It’s Good is a monthly interactive movie game series that brings a twist to the movie going experience. With unique prompts to encourage participation, it promises to be a wild and fun night at the movies!

Dir: Scott McGeHee/David Siegel, US, Drama. Bill Murray, Naomi Watts. “Iris is being pulled too many ways. One of her writing students is coyly semi-threatening to show her his erotic fiction. A current project is steadfastly refusing to take wing. Her best friend and mentor, a beguiling verbal magician named Walter, has just taken his own life, leaving behind what seems a platoon of ex-wives and lovers. And also leaving behind a dog, which for reasons Iris can’t quite fathom, he has bequeathed to her. Apollo, who’s played by the superb canine performer Bing, seems an unlikely hero at first. The Great Dane has sadder-than-sad eyes complemented by frowning jowls... As Iris seeks to find a suitable place or person on which to offload the dog, she increasingly finds herself not wanting to. She has plenty of human friends, but you know how people in the writing world are. What Apollo offers Iris is unconditional. She seems never to have experienced that before, and she comes to value it. How could she not? ..Both emotionally raw and acutely thoughtful, rife with specificity. It’s career-high stuff.” - Glenn Kenny, Roger Ebert.com

Dir: Richard Donner, US, 1985, Family, Adventure. Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman. A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate’s long-lost treasure.

Dir: Peter Cattaneo, UK/Spain, 2024, Drama. Steve Coogan, Vivian El Jaber, Jonathan Pryce. “Here’s an unexpected charmer, a true story based on a popular autobiographical memoir about a man and a penguin, with a lightness of tone that doesn’t overdo the whimsy. The excellent Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, a cynical and disillusioned British writer and scholar who accepted a job in 1976 teaching proper English, poetry and soccer in an upscale boys’ prep school in Buenos Aires at the height of Argentina’s postwar military dictatorship. Intelligently directed by Peter Cattaneo, the man best remembered for The Full Monty, the stressful anecdotes Michell endures make the job of winning over both the unruly, rebellious students and the stern, humorless headmaster a taxing challenge… Things pick up when Michell accidentally rescues a penguin from a near-fatal oil slick, and the little bird repays him by following him halfway across South America. The poor English teacher, who hates birds and has no need for a pet anyway, is stuck with a feathered friend he can’t get rid of. It wins him over like a Disney duck in spite of himself, and I’m willing to bet the same thing happens to you… The Penguin Lessons is a work of surprising depth and subtle, irresistible impact.” - Rex Reed, Observer