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A Sunday matinee with Hulk Hogan!

andrewlapointe — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:39:09 +0000

This Sunday afternoon, a group called Fighting Back: Wrestling with Cancer is holding a fundraiser that will prove to be an entertaining as well as worthwhile one. Check out the info below…

Hey everybody,
This Sunday afternoon, July 17th at 3pm – our good friends at the Mayfair theatre are hosting an event you won’t want to miss.

Presented for the first time in Ottawa on the big screen in over 20 years – an original film print of a true professional wrestling classic…..

Before The Wrestler… before WWE Studios… Before Ready to Rumble… The most gripping and realistic portrayal of the wrestling business ever put on film…

Get ready Ottawa for “NO HOLDS BARRED”!

All tickets will be $10 at the door – with all profits going towards the August 12th event.

Come out and have some fun, in support of Fighting Back: Wrestling with Cancer!

Sunday July 17th at 3:00pm
The Mayfair Theatre
1074 Bank St. Ottawa, Ontario
Cost: $10 donation to Fighting Back

www.fighting-back.ca

Support for a former Mayfair employee

andrewlapointe — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:28:32 +0000

Lauren Gerro, a former Mayfair employee, was seriously injured in last week’s wind storm when both her legs were broken by a tree branch. She is currently recovering in hospital. We are taking cash donations for her at the box office and candy bar. Anything you can donate would be greatly appreciated.

Her current employer, Global Pet Foods on Wellington Ave. is also accepting donations.

A fundraiser for her will be held at the Elmdale Tavern on Wellington on May 14 at 2pm. 100% of the money donated will go towards Lauren’s recovery.

We wish all the best for Lauren in her recovery!

Go Ape this March!

andrewlapointe — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:05:06 +0000

This March, the Mayfair proudly presents the classic Planet of the Apes series on rare 35mm film. We’re also including a special bonus engagement of three great episodes of the TV series Return to the Planet of the Apes on 16mm! All five films in the saga will be shown. It all begins on March 12! Don’t miss it!

The Wonderful World of Polish Movie Posters

andrewlapointe — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:16:21 +0000

A website called wellmedicated.com has a selection of bizarre, outrageous and truly inspired Polish posters for Hollywood films. These eye popping works of art go far and beyond what you would expect for any piece of movie promotional material. See for yourself…

Check them all out here

They’re coming to get you!

andrewlapointe — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:29:47 +0000

The George A. Romero classic Night of the Living Dead returns to the Mayfair this Friday October 29 with live music, sound effects and dialogue performed by a talented group of local artists and actors! Tickets are available at the theatre box office and are $20 for members, seniors and students/$25 for non members. Doors open at 8:30pm and the show begins at 9:30pm. Beer will be served on tap courtesy of McAuslan! Don’t miss this unique and rare cinematic experience!

You’ll come to PIECES!

andrewlapointe — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:11:07 +0000

This Tuesday, the Mayfair proudly presents two films that are apart of a classic horror tradition: the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and it’s comedic sequel. But there is cinematic proof that you don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre! The 1983 grindhouse shocker Pieces will be showing this Friday and Saturday night at 11:30pm! This Spanish made splatter film features a psycho killer who terrorizes a college campus by sawing his victims and create human puzzles! It was directed by an exploitation auteur by the name of Juan Piquer Simon, and if you’ve seen episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, you might have seen his ultra cheesy E.T. ripoff entitled Pod People. But Pieces is in another league altogether…

This rare 35mm presentation is coming straight from the U.S. courtesy of Grindhouse Releasing! It’s not for the squeamish and as the trailer forewarns, it’s exactly what you think it is!

Dario Argento returns to the Giallo

andrewlapointe — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:51:02 +0000

Giallo is Dario Argento’s latest film and marks his return to the classic Italian thriller subgenre that he helped popularize in the late 60s and early 70s with films like The Bird With The Crystal Plummage and The Cat O’Nine Tails. The film premieres at the Mayfair this Friday October 15 at 11:45pm. Oscar winner Adrien Brody leads the cast playing a cop tracking a murderer in the city of Milan. The screening is presented by Zombie Info. Check out this review by Quiet Earth..

Check out the Giallo Trailer.

Night of the Living Dead Revisited

andrewlapointe — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:21:02 +0000

Imagine you’ve decided to take your motorcycle across the U.S. and you’re riding through small town Pennsylvania when you just happen to come across the original graveyard used in the memorable opening scene of George A. Romero’s seminal Night of the Living Dead. Musician Mike Schultz did just that and not only did he have his camera on him but he was able to memorize certain shots from the scene perfectly to recreate them! Take a look at the results below and on October 29, come see Night of the Living Dead: Live! with original score with live sound and dialogue by the Mayfair Orchestra and Players! Tickets are $20 for members, seniors and students and $25 general admission.

*Pictures courtesy of mokzone blog

Do yourself a kindness and see Winnebago Man!

andrewlapointe — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:59:57 +0000

*Here’s my own review of Winnebago Man, the documentary about Jack Rebney, known on YouTube as “the angriest man on earth”!

This revealing and very funny documentary plays October 1,2,3,5 & 6

Jack Rebney is not an easy subject for a documentary. A former TV news director, Rebney later became an internet celebrity thanks to an infamous blooper reel from an industrial demo tape shot for Winnebago, in which he curses a blue streak and berates his crew during an extremely hot and fly ridden shooting day in Iowa, 1989. The tape was bootlegged endlessly and is now a YouTube staple. The problem is, Rebney doesn’t exactly embrace the attention and interest.

But filmmaker Ben Steinbauer does and devotes his time and passion for this obscure viral video to make this revealing documentary about a man with a lot to say and a colorful way of saying it. In his attempt to track down (or stalk) Rebney, he discovers that he is living a reclusive life as a caretaker of a fishing resort in northern California. A symbolic contrast to the fast paced noise of the urban centres and high tech world. He agrees to be interviewed at his home and presents a calm, friendly and mysteriously low key version of himself. Steinbauer is disappointed. Where is the angry and profane man seen in that video? Can his subject sustain a feature length documentary after one brief and banal interview in which Rebney reveals almost nothing?

Ah, but there’s a great twist. Steinbauer returns home and receives a surprise call from Rebney. He confesses that the nice, even tempered man Ben met was just an act. Rebney really is the man you see in the Winnebago tape: short fused and pissed off, but with eloquent vocabulary laced within the coarse language.

Steinbauer returns to Rebney’s cabin and the film really begins. Ben and Jack become an unlikely duo as they argue over the value of discussing Jack’s personal life and career. He would rather rant about the evils of Wal Mart and Dick Cheney than delve into his childhood or any other personal matter.

Winnebago Man sheds some often hilarious light on the cult of reluctant celebrity in the age of instant gratification. Rebney detests this part of the culture. He doesn’t care for the internet whatsoever. At one point he refers to YouTube as “that fuckin’ abysmal piece of shit tube” His modest house contains shelves of books you’d probably find in a university professor’s office.

This character study displays a contradictory man; someone who seems to desire a soapbox for his anger (mostly political) but resists any on camera attention and often throws irritated fits towards Steinbauer, who wants his biography instead of a filmed diatribe of society and politics. There’s some real tension in the battle of wits and words between the two. We don’t know how this story will end because Jack Rebney may not want it fully told.

But he opens up enough for the filmmaker to show a sensitive side but he still retains his pessimistic and profanity filled grumpiness. Rebney is smart and funny enough to belong in front of the camera despite his insistence on privacy. This film perfectly captures this conflict. The F word will always be funny and fascinating but Jack Rebney certainly enhances it with his one of a kind character and personality.

Flooding with First Blood

andrewlapointe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:18:08 +0000

“Flooding With Love for the Kid” is a micro budgeted ($96 to be exact) shot on digital adaptation of David Morrell’s 1972 novel First Blood, which of course was later made into the first Rambo film of the same name in 1982. But New York based filmmaker Zachary Oberzan has done something completely different and even radical. He has directed, shot, edited and acted in the film entirely on his own, playing all the characters himself. And he even did it all in his small studio apartment, with basic props, costumes and crude digital effects!

David Morrell himself has praised the unconventional adaptation. It is much more faithful to the novel than First Blood the original film.

The film makes it’s Ottawa premiere this month: July 30 and 31! If you think you’ve really seen First Blood, you’ve never seen blood drawn like this!

Take a look at the trailer to see the crazy ingenuity for yourself!