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Fall 2025
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Wednesday
September 24th @ 7PM
Who will the young aspiring novelist, Agathe choose: her hitherto platonic friend, Felix a charming colleague and womanizing cad, or the priggish literary professor and three times grand-nephew of Jane Austen? In writer/director Laura Piani’s highly entertaining film, Agathe’s romantic dilemma is less a tale set in traditions of “pride and prejudice”, and more one of “sense and (modern) sensibility”, where it is expected that both the romantic and artistic aspirations of partners will be shared.
The Penguin Lessons
Wednesday
October 8th @ 7PM
The headmaster of a posh boys’ prep school expects the new teacher, Tom Michell to get good results from a class of “unteachables”. When bombs drop, school is cancelled and Tom heads out to nearby Uruguay, where he rescues a penguin that refuses to be parted from him. Order and learning are restored to the classroom, when good behaviour is rewarded by student time granted to spend with the penguin. In the end, in all the chaos of heartbreak and terror, the penguin offers hope by teaching what Tom cannot: the healing power of loving connection.
PHOTO : Enda Bowe/Lionsgate
Bob Trevino Likes It
Wednesday
October 22nd @ 7PM
In this heart-warming film with its irresistible mix of humour and pathos, it is hard not to laugh when it is Lilly’s therapist who starts crying and needs her patient’s consoling, after Lilly shares her sad story of abandonment, betrayal and rejection. When Lilly uses social media to try to reconnect with her self-centred and neglectful father, Bob Trevino, she is “befriended” by someone else with the same name as her father. A married construction-site manager with little time for fun,. So begins a vital friendship filled with meaningful connection and healing for them both!
Photo: Variety
Life of Chuck
Wednesday
December 3rd @ 7PM
This highly entertaining film, an adaptation of a same-titled short story by Stephen King, challenges its viewers, not only to interpret its meaning, but also to classify its genre–science fiction, fantasy or psychological study. It is the “story” of Stephen King’s “Everyman”, accountant Chuck Krantz. Presented in three non-chronological “movements”, the film recreates King’s pliable literary lens with its sweeping take on future universal disaster, to its spotlight of Chuck’s impressive improvised dance routine, and then to its more personal focus on Chuck’s years growing up.