Princess Cinemas
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36 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Princess Cinemas
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The year is 1986. Janet Jackson’s “When I Think of You” is playing on your walkman as you jog throughout Uptown Waterloo. Of all of the times to be alive, this is certainly one of them. The Cold War seems to be cooling down, you may have just caught one of the first-ever episodes of…
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Supporting independent cinemas during the pandemic: there’s nothing like the in-person, movie-viewing experience
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Over the course of 2020, many small businesses in Kitchener-Waterloo were forced to close due to the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. After a year of opening and closing fluctuations as waves of the pandemic rose and subsided, businesses in the region have been allowed to re-open to the public with enhanced safety procedures. Due…
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Lady Bird flutters across the big screen
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I cried, I laughed and I wanted to watch it 10 more times afterwards — those feelings could only be attained in their entirety by watching Greta Gerwig’s film, Lady Bird. Before going to Princess Cinemas on Monday night, I had already heard great things about the indie film, and director Greta Gerwig. However, I…
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The big screen, the small screen and the in-between
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There’s a method of filmmaking called cinéma vérité – true cinema. The form refers to a specific method of taking natural bits of life – rather than contrived art – and splicing them together into an unpretentious grasp at realism. For the sake of this article, we’re going to re-contextualize those same words to question…
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Princess Cinema’s Quote-Along continues to draw crowd with Princess Bride
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It’s not every day you walk into a movie theatre to be greeted with a “Welcome to the Fire Swamp, watch out for the R.O.U.S.’s, but I don’t believe they exist.” On Thursday, Princess Cinemas and the “folkes” from the Royal Medieval Faire hosted a The Princess Bride quote-along (think sing-along with subtitles instead of…
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Unsigned: Click-bait in reality for politics instead of a fictional thrill
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This Halloween, Princess Cinemas and the Horror Show Collective invited viewers to screen the “scariest movie ever” for a chance to win $200, but they didn’t know the title of the film going into the screening. While patrons were expecting gore and horror in the form of Michael Meyers or Jason, what they got was…
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How limited film releases are denying artists their livelihood
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Among the most well received films released in 2015, standing next to giants like The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road, was a little independent stop-motion animation called Anomalisa. This sombre love story was the latest offering from writer-director Charlie Kaufman whose previous success with bizarre screenplays for Being John Malkovich and Adaptation made him…
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CUPE 926 rally attracts many to university entrance
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At 11 a.m. outside the main entrance to Wilfrid Laurier University, several members and allies of CUPE Local 926 held a rally to discuss the recent issues with university administration and reasons for the ongoing strike, which started earlier this week. The rally attracted CUPE members from other districts, such as London, Perth and Lindsay,…
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Possible strike for Laurier’s custodial staff
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The contract negotiations between Wilfrid Laurier University and The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 926 may result in 110 custodial, grounds and trades employees on the Waterloo campus to go on strike next week. As explained in a previous article by The Cord, Laurier and CUPE are currently in the middle of negotiating…
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