After the impressive attendance for Ghost World at our last screening, we here at Graphic Content decided to keep the second last film of our first season relatively grounded as well, before the big crazy finale next month that is! In that spirit, for May we’re offering up Canadian auteur director David Cronenberg’s adaptation of [...]
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Small Town Hero or Slick City Villain?
Posted in Film Screenings on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
After About Five Minutes of This Movie, You’re Gonna Wish You Had Ten Beers
Posted in Film Screenings on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Phew! It’s been a busy month for the Graphic Content team: we traveled to Seattle for a bit of a vacation and to check out the Emerald City Comicon. Seattle is also home to Fantagraphics Books, “publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists since 1976,” including Daniel Clowes‘ Ghost World, which was adapted to the screen by director Terry [...]
American Splendor, Canadian Theatre
Posted in Film Screenings on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As you all remember, back in December Erin interviewed Andy Grabia, curator of the Gilbert Bouchard comics collection exhibit that was displayed at the University of Alberta this winter. Back then we teased that Suzette Chan, comics/culture writer and friend of Gilbert, would be working with us on a special screening in his memory, well now’s [...]
An Epic Valentine’s Day of Epic Epicness
Posted in Film Screenings on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The season of love is in the air, and Graphic Content is going to spread that love by presenting one of our favourite movies, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! Not only are we showing the movie, but we bringing on our favourite local comics reviewing duo to help us do so, Brandon Schatz and James Leask from Comics! [...]
You Will Believe a Man Can Fly (with a Jetpack)
Posted in Film Screenings on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Happy 2012 everyone! I hope you got all kinds of sweet comics and movies during the holiday season! As a final present to the city of Edmonton, Graphic Content has decided to show a classic-style matinee adventure film this month, 1991′s dieselpunk classic, The Rocketeer! What makes this particular screening even more special is the [...]
Neo-Edmonton E.X.P.L.O.D.E.D.
Posted in Film Screenings on January 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Well Edmonton, how do you like living in the post-apocalyptic wasteland we inadvertently created at our December 20th screening of Akira. We played it unapologetically loud and blew the doors right off of the Garneau Theatre, you’re welcome. Thanks again to Shades of Grey, especially Wayde, for designing our poster, and Shane, for his wisdom, [...]
The End of the World is Only the Beginning
Posted in Film Screenings on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This month, Graphic Content has decided to counter-program against the torrent of feel-good holiday flicks and Oscar bait that are about to inundate the theatres of our fair city. Instead, we will be digging deep into nerd history and showing 1988′s Akira (アキラ), the hyper-violent realization of Katsushiro Otomo’s epic manga of the same name, [...]
#YEGvendetta
Posted in Film Screenings on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Exciting news everybody! Graphic Content is teaming up with the Jay n’ J to bring you a sweet little Twitter contest. Jay n’ J is a local entertainment podcast on movies, hosted by Jay and Jordan. They’ve invited us guest host later this month and we wanted to celebrate this team-up by offering you a chance to come out and see [...]
Remember, Remember, the 22nd of November!
Posted in Film Screenings on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Graphic Content’s screening for the month of November will be the stark, brutal film realization of the classic comic series V For Vendetta. While it’s not exactly going to be shown on the day mentioned in the rhyme, we felt that the 2006 film was a good pick for this month. Here’s the information. It [...]
Superheroes and Beyond!
Posted in Film Screenings on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Belated thanks to everyone who made it out to The Metro Cinema at The Garneau last week for Superman. We were very proud to present another 35 mm print of one of the greatest comic book films of all time! We had a little over 80 passionate Superman fans, including some cosplayers! The film itself [...]
