Dir: Érik Canuel, Canada, 2006. Patrick Huard, Colm Feore, Michel Beaudry. In English and French with English subtitles. Two Canadian detectives, one from Ontario and the other from Quebec, must work together when a murdered victim is found on the Ontario-Quebec border.

This live concert performance will transform the City Cinema theatre into an intimate listening room. Double bassist Adam Hill will lead an ensemble of five musicians in an exploration of improvisational music that crosses genre and style. The group will feature Tiffany Liu on pipa, Chris Corrigan on electric guitar, Mat MacEachern on drums, and Maya Márquez Calle on electric bass. The program will present the premiere performance of a new composition by each member of the ensemble, as well as a few not-so-standards. Through the use of “structured improvisation” the performers will bring their diverse musical experiences together to create a common language that communicates across boundaries. Guaranteed to be a one-of-a-kind musical event.

Dir: Richard Linklater, US, 1995. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy. Date matinee! Members get two for one admission. Members get $9 tickets! Sign in (using the button above) or sign up today. A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.

Dir: Michael Dowse, Canada, 2002. Dave Lawrence, Paul Spence, Gordon Skilling. Headbangers Terry and Dean explore the depths of friendship, and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.

Dir: David Cronenberg, Canada, 1996. James Spader, Rosanna Arquette, Holly Hunter Members get two for one admission. Members get $9 tickets! Sign in (using the button above) or sign up today." A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground sub-culture of like-minded souls.

Dir: Alain Guiraudie, France/Portugal/Spain, 2024. Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay. In French with English subtitles. “Just over a decade ago, Alain Guiraudie won Cannes’ best director prize for Stranger by the Lake, a spellbinding erotic thriller in which sex and death swirl together at a gay cruising spot. With Miséricorde (Misericordia)... he has crafted another elegantly haunting dissection of the power dynamics shaping queer sexuality, this time in the form of an fantastically tender, alluring, and peculiar small-town tale of murder, desire, and repression. In the rural village of Saint-Martial, the death of a local baker prompts the return of his one-time protégé Jérémie, who comes to stay with the baker’s wife, Martine; this in turn arouses the suspicions of her son, Vincent, who seems unusually stirred by the return of this former acquaintance. Whatever the nature of their past relationship, Vincent would prefer it stay buried… A picturesque hamlet in the Ardèches, Saint-Martial is another one of Guiraudie’s cloistered worlds, a labyrinth of slate roofs and cobbled streets that soon gives way to chestnut groves and holm oak forests. It’s in the privacy of the woods, away from prying eyes, that a chance encounter between Jérémie and Vincent one afternoon turns aggressive… Guiraudie derives both comedy and tragedy from closeted compulsions and the communal silence in which his characters conceal their enactments, even as the church’s ambiguous presence adds a fresh element to the filmmaker’s latest meditation on all that’s predatory and sacrificial about our most pathological desires.” - Isaac Feldberg, Roger Ebert.com

Presented as a free screening in celebration of National Canadian Film Day. Dir: Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 2010. Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. In English, French & Arabic with English subtitles. Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother’s last wishes.

Dir: Cal Brunker, Canada, 2021. Tyler Perry, Ron Pardo, Will Brisbin. Ryder and the PAW Patrol pups are called to Adventure City in order to stop the recently elected Mayor Humdinger from wreaking havoc.

Retro Cannabis is excited to invite all Islander enthusiasts to our 2nd Annual Mystery Movie at City Cinema. Admission is FREE, but we’ll be accepting donations at the door in support of the PEI Food Bank. To secure your spot, be sure to reserve your seat at citycinema.ca. All that’s left is to decide which of your favorite Retro Cannabis products is the ultimate shiz-nittlebam snip-snap-sack — and let the Retro crew know when you arrive!

In celebration of Earth day City Cinema is proud to present a series of film screenings centered around the contentious relationship between humans and the power of nature. Dir: Daniel Goldhaber, US, 2022. Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage. A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.

City Cinema presents its first So Bad it’s Good screening of the infamous low-budget horror movie Troll 2. A baffling and hilarious story about a vacationing family that discovers the entire town they’re visiting is inhabited by goblins (yes, Goblins), disguised as humans, who plan to eat them. So Bad, It’s Good is a monthly interactive movie game series (think Rocky Horror Picture Show) that encourages audience reactions. The monthly series 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! Instructions and supplies will be provided.

Presented by City Cinema and The Benevolent Irish Society. Dir: Tomm Moore, Ireland, 2014. Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle. Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.

Dir: Jeff Nichols, US, 2011. Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

Presented by City Cinema and The Benevolent Irish Society. Dir: John Michael McDonagh, Ireland, 2011. Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong. An unorthodox Irish policeman with a con frontational personality is partnered with an uptight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

Dir: Peter Jackson, New Zealand, 2001. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen. A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

Dir: Peter Jackson, New Zealand, 2003. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen. Best Picture - 2003 Academy Awards. 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.

Dir: Peter Jackson, New Zealand, 2002. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen. While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron’s new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.

Presented by City Cinema and The Benevolent Irish Society. Dir: Peter Mullan, Ireland, 2002. Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora Jane Noone. Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

Dir: Atom Egoyan, Canada, 1997. Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin. A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn’t what it seems.

Dir: Bill Bennett, Australia, 2025. Chris Haywood, Jennifer Cluff. “As the title suggests, the central character in The Way, My Way has firm opinions on how he should walk the popular 800 km Camino de Santiago pilgrimage path through Spain. He shuns modern trekking poles, in favour of a “gnarled and knotty” staff. He has a bad knee yet breaks a promise to his wife to “take it easy” on the first days of the month-long walk… “I’m not a patient man,’’ he admits. He is the Australian filmmaker Bill Bennett and this documentary-drama hybrid is his screen adaptation of his 2013 memoir of the same name. He is played by veteran Australian actor Chris Hayward. Bennett’s wife of 41 years, the actor Jennifer Cluff, plays herself…Most of the speaking parts are real pilgrims going their way on the visually spectacular Camino Way... Bennett has his own confessional moment near the end, speaking to his wife by phone, and while it’s acted by Hayward, it feels real… This is a quiet, gentle, uplifting film about freeing oneself from the everyday and discovering the comfort of strangers - though not in the way Ian McEwan imagines. It made me want to walk the Camino, despite my two bad knees.” - Stephen Romei, The Australian

PG. Dir: Jan de Bont, US, 1996. Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.