2024-10-03
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Charles Martin Smith wrote and directed this riveting tale of survival in the Canadian arctic. Barry Pepper soars as a cocky bush pilot whose plane goes down while he is transporting a sickly Inuit beauty (Annabella Piugattuk) to a hospital. Smith adapted a short story by Canadian author Farley Mowat, whom he played in a big-screen adaptation of Mowat's "Never Cry Wolf," an autobiographical tale a
The secret of a girl who fell to her death as a result of bullying haunts the four students involved as they are about to attend their own prom.
The leads of "Romancing the Stone" return for a new adventure, rekindling their passion and combating a tyrannical Arab ruler in pursuit of the coveted Jewel of the Nile.
A young couple who saw a mysterious comet crash outside their small town is doubted by locals when they claim their new alien arrivals look like circus clowns. Killing off the townspeople, it's up to a bunch of teenagers to save humankind.
Five vacationing college teens make an unplanned stopover in an abandoned mountain cabin surrounded by dense woods, where they discover an ancient-looking occult tome. Later, an ominous presence from the depths of the forest emerges, and things quickly become life-threatening for the coeds.
Workers accidentally release a chemical that brings the dead back to life at a local cemetery. The ghouls proceed to attack teens who had gathered at the spooky location to party. The men responsible ask the operator of a local crematorium for help in dispatching the monsters.
Talking Heads' David Byrne uses a fictional Texas town called Virgil as a device to satirize the eccentricities of America. John Goodman. Lazy Woman: Swoosie Kurtz. Culver: Spalding Gray. Cute Woman: Alix Elias. Kay: Annie McEnroe. Ramon: Umberto Larriva. Preacher: John Ingle. Computer Guy: Matthew Posey. Lying Woman: Jo Harvey Allen.
Five vacationing college teens make an unplanned stopover in an abandoned mountain cabin surrounded by dense woods, where they discover an ancient-looking occult tome. Later, an ominous presence from the depths of the forest emerges, and things quickly become life-threatening for the coeds.
Workers accidentally release a chemical that brings the dead back to life at a local cemetery. The ghouls proceed to attack teens who had gathered at the spooky location to party. The men responsible ask the operator of a local crematorium for help in dispatching the monsters.
A courier is pursued by goons who want the information contained in a chip in his head.
After feeling he has nothing left to live for on earth, a lonely geologist tries to qualify for a one-way mission to Mars with the help of an offbeat musician who is just as lost as he is.
A punk rock band makes a tense but hilarious reunion tour across Western Canada.
Talking Heads' David Byrne uses a fictional Texas town called Virgil as a device to satirize the eccentricities of America. John Goodman. Lazy Woman: Swoosie Kurtz. Culver: Spalding Gray. Cute Woman: Alix Elias. Kay: Annie McEnroe. Ramon: Umberto Larriva. Preacher: John Ingle. Computer Guy: Matthew Posey. Lying Woman: Jo Harvey Allen.