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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 & Saturday, June 5-6
- Experience Speed Racer - 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.
Saturday June 6
- Obsessive investigators played by Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr., race to uncover the identity of the elusive Zodiac killer in the gripping thriller Zodiac (2007), inspired by true events.
June 11, 18 & 21
- By popular demand, Interstellar in IMAX is back! Immerse yourself in this fan favourite just in time for Father's Day.
Friday & Saturday, June 12-13
- Enter the arena with Ridley Scott’s Academy Award-winning Gladiator and its thunderous sequel Gladiator II in IMAX and experience the legendary origin and the new era of Rome's greatest battles!
Saturday, June 20
- Immerse yourself in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in IMAX and journey through the iconic mind-bending voyage through space and time - an unforgettable cinematic experience!
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Hollywood movies, cult classics, concerts, and special presentations
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
Zodiac (2007)
June 6 at 8:30 p.m.
In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.) become obsessed with learning the killer's identity and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Zodiac claims victim after victim and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, cyphers and menacing phone calls.
Rated: 14A,Violence
Run Time: 157 mins
Interstellar in IMAX
June 11, 18 & 21
Immerse yourself in Christopher Nolan's award-winning space adventure, presented in stunning IMAX! A team of pioneers undertakes the most important mission in human history — to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey stars as the ex-pilot turned farmer who is forced to leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition travelling beyond this galaxy.
Rated: PG
Run Time: 169 mins
Gladiator (2000)
June 12 at 7:00 p.m.
Set in Roman times, the story of a once-powerful general forced to become a common gladiator. The emperor's son is enraged when he is passed over as heir in favour of his father's favourite general. He kills his father and arranges the murder of the general's family, and the general is sold into slavery to be trained as a gladiator - but his subsequent popularity in the arena threatens the throne. Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. Directed by Ridley Scott.
Rated: 14A Gory Violence
Run Time: 152 mins
Gladiator II in IMAX
June 13 at 7:00 p.m.
Years after witnessing the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius must enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer his home. With rage in his heart and the future of the empire at stake, he looks to the past to find the strength and honour needed to return the glory of Rome to its people. Directed by Ridley Scott.
Rated: 14A Brutal Violence
Run Time: 148 mins
2001: A Space Odyssey in IMAX
June 20 at 7:00 p.m.
Experience Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey In IMAX! An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behaviour, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.
Rated: PG
Run Time: 149 mins