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The Screening Room was the site of the first Kingston Canadian Film Festival in 2001 and it will play a host once more for the 2024 festival. Kingston’s only independent movie theatre, The Screening Room offers a variety of new releases, cult classics, art-house films, and family-friendly movies on its three screens. Steacy’s Department Store.
- The Plot, in Detail
- The Monoliths
- Religion/ Existentialism
- Man and Technology
This visual poetry begins its journey from millions of years ago. Apparently, apes are the most evolved species at the time. But, they aren’t modern enough to hunt their preys. They seem to be living off what the predators leave behind. The apes live in groups as several different tribes and often there are (nonviolent) conflicts among them over wa...
The monoliths are objects left by some intelligent extra-terrestrial species to somehow trigger the advance of human beings. In other words, they represent evolutionary leaps. Who exactly left it there? God(s)? Flying spaghetti monster? Some alien kid who is coding up a vastly interactive program in which we are random variables that (s)he kills of...
Although it doesn’t say anything about the anthropomorphic God/Gods that most of our religions put forth, the film portrays a powerful imagery of a superior force that leads mankind. A parent figure who is holding our hands while we take baby steps. According to the movie, that mysterious power enabled us to evolve to become who we are today. Our e...
Remember the bone? It was a milestone in the evolution of mankind. Hunting using tools. But, it didn’t take them long to use it to fight and fatally injure one another. Misuse of technology 101. Millions of years later, we see a satellite after the cut. Although it isn’t explicitly stated in the film, the satellite is intended as a weapon platform ...
Sep 27, 2017 · 10 Reasons Why “2001: A Space Odyssey” Is The Greatest Sci-fi Movie of All Time Posted on September 27, 2017 September 27, 2017 by Will Jones Next year will be the 50th Anniversary of one of the greatest films ever to be put on the silver screen, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2010: The Year We Make Contact (abbreviated on-screen as simply 2010) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams.It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel, 2010: Odyssey Two.
- Peter Hyams
- US$28 million
- December 7, 1984
- David Shire
Croupier (film) Croupier. (film) Croupier is a 1998 British thriller film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Clive Owen. The film attracted a strong critical following in North America and helped to launch Owen's acting career there. It uses interior monologues in the style of many early noir detective films.
Nov 9, 2001 · David Mamet's ''Heist'' is about a caper and a con, involving professional criminals who want to retire but can't. It's not that they actually require more money. It's more that it would be a sin to leave it in civilian hands. Gene Hackman plays a jewel thief who dreams of taking his last haul and sailing into the sunset with his young wife (Rebecca Pidgeon). Danny DeVito is the low-rent ...
Mayor of Kingstown. They filmed also in Brantford, Ontario (Canada) at William Street – between Waterloo and Church Street – and in Clarence Street – from Dalhousie Street to Elgin Street –. See where they filmed this series from 2021 starring Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest and Hugh Dillon. There are more than 2 filming locations on our site.
