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From Hollywood blockbusters and cult classics to concerts and special presentations, here's what's also happening in the IMAX Theatre:
Friday, May 15
- If they hear you, they hunt you. Get a heart-pounding suspense theatre experience when you watch A Quiet Place, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror that will leave you breathless.
Saturday, May 16
- Check out Tremors! If you haven't seen it, this 1990 cult classic is a monster movie/western, full of jump scares and unexpected laughs. If you have seen it, you know, it's endlessly rewatchable and only gets better with company. One of Kevin Bacon's favourites!
Sunday, May 17
- Indiana Jones meets the supernatural in this thrilling 1999 blockbuster, The Mummy! Enjoy the non-stop action and witty humour of this high-octane race against time to save the world from ancient vengeance.
Celebrate camping season with some campy sci-fi and cult classics this May:
- May 22 - Starship Troopers (1997) 25th Anniversary version
- May 23 - The Fifth Element
- May 29 - Galaxy Quest
- May 30 - The Thing
Friday & Saturday, June 5-6
- Speed Racer is back, re-released in IMAX! When this film premiered in 2008, audiences weren't ready. But now? Reviews say the tech has caught up to the Wachowskis' pop-art vision, and it's vibrant, saturated, and absolutely electric. Feel the Mach 5 engine rumble and experience the score in IMAX sound. Don't miss this visually stunning, ahead-of-its-time, live-action remake of the beloved 1960s anime series with IMAX picture and sound - the way it was always meant to be seen!
Friday, June 5
- Catch the dark crime thriller Prisoners (2013), directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Hugh Jackman as a desperate father who takes the law into his own hands after police fail to find two kidnapped girls. Rated 14A with Brutal Violence, Not Recommended For Children Advisory.
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Hollywood movies, cult classics, concerts, and special presentations
A Quiet Place (2018)
May 15 at 7:00 p.m.
If they hear you, they hunt you. A family must live in silence to avoid mysterious creatures that hunt by sound. Knowing that even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death, Evelyn and Lee are determined to find a way to protect their children while desperately searching for a way to fight back.
Rated: 14A
Run Time: 95 mins
Tremors (1990)
May 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Repairmen Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are tired of their dull lives in the small desert town of Perfection, Nevada. But just as the two try to skip town, they happen upon a series of mysterious deaths and a concerned seismologist (Finn Carter) studying unnatural readings below the ground. With the help of an eccentric couple (Reba McEntire, Michael Gross), the group fights for survival against giant, worm-like monsters hungry for human flesh.
Rated: 14A
Run Time: 96 mins
The Mummy (1999)
May 17 at 7:00 p.m.
The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, which is embodied in the vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead.
Rated: 14A
Run Time: 125 mins
Starship Troopers (1997)
May 22 at 7:00 p.m.
In the distant future, the Earth is at war with a race of giant alien insects. Little is known about the Bugs except that they are intent on the eradication of all human life. But there was a time before the war... A Mobile Infantry travels to distant alien planets to take the war to the Bugs. They are a ruthless enemy with only one mission: Survival of their species no matter what the cost.
This film is not formatted for IMAX.
Rated: 14A
Run Time: 129 mins
The Fifth Element
May 23 at 7:00 p.m.
In the 23rd century, a New York City cabbie, Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), finds the fate of the world in his hands when Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) falls into his cab. As the embodiment of the fifth element, Leeloo needs to combine with the other four to keep the approaching Great Evil from destroying the world. Together with Father Vito Cornelius (Ian Holm) and zany broadcaster Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker), Dallas must race against time and the wicked industrialist Zorg (Gary Oldman) to save humanity.
Rated: PG
Run Time: 126 mins
Galaxy Quest
May 29 at 7:00 p.m.
The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the ailing celebrities for help in their quest to overcome the oppressive regime in their solar system.
Rated: PG
Run Time: 102 mins
The Thing
May 30 at 7:00 p.m.
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
Rated: 14A
Run Time: 109 mins
Speed Racer in IMAX
June 5-6 at 6:00 p.m.
Experience Speed Racer in IMAX picture and sound - the way it was always meant to be seen! Born into a family business of race cars, Speed Racer is one of the track's hot stars. Sitting at the wheel of his Mach 5, he consistently deflates the competition. When Speed turns down an offer from the head of Royalton Industries, he uncovers a secret. Powerful moguls fix the races to boost profits. Hoping to beat the executive, Speed enters the same arduous cross-country race that killed his brother.
Rated: PG
Run Time: 132 mins
Prisoners (2013)
June 5 at 8:30 p.m.
Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), arrests the driver (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces Loki to release his only suspect. Dover, knowing that his daughter's life is at stake, decides that he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. Directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Rated: 14A, Brutal Violence, Not Recommended For Children
Run Time: 153 mins