Past Events

The Last Bus December 7, 2022 – 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm Galaxy Cinemas Barrie, 72 Commerce Park Dr, Barrie, ON L4N 8W8     Life is a journey and THE LAST BUS takes 90-year-old Tom Harper (Timothy Spall) on an epic trip from his home of fifty years - a remote village in the most northerly point of Scotland - back to the place he was born – close to England’s most southerly point. Battling against time, age and fate,…

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 – 4pm, 7pm Galaxy Cinemas Barrie, 72 Commerce Park Dr, Barrie, ON L4N 8W8 Drama | PG | 106 min. | UK Directed by: Oliver Hermanus Cast: Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Aimee Lou Wood   1953. A London shattered by WWII is still recovering. Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy), a veteran civil servant, is an impotent cog within the city’s bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild. Buried under paperwork at the office, lonely at home, his life…

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 – 4pm, 7pm Galaxy Cinemas Barrie, 72 Commerce Park Dr, Barrie, ON L4N 8W8 Drama | PG | 105 min. | Belgium/Netherlands/France Directed by: Lukas Dhont Cast: Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Léon Bataille, Kevin Janssens, Igor van Dessel, Marc Weiss     “What Dhont understands, in short, is how kinetic the rites of passage are—how growing pains are expressed not in words, however therapeutic, but in rushes of activity.” – Anthony…

Dates: March 23 to 26, 2023 Venue: Five Points Theatre, 1 Dunlop St W, Barrie, ON L4N 1A1 Reel Stories returns for its 19th edition and this year will be presented downtown at the Five Points Theatre. Discover extraordinary things about the world from this thought-provoking four-day documentary festival.       Tickets are $12 (service fees/HST included in price). Online tickets sold via Ticketpro. By phone at 1-888-655-9090 (Ticketpro). For in-person sales, Box office is located at Five Points…

Day: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: Five Points Theatre, 1 Dunlop St W, Barrie, ON L4N 1A1   Documentary | 95 min. | UK Director: Kim Hopkins Featuring: Colin Egglestone, Harry Nicholls, Joe Ogden, Jeanette Wilson, Philip Wainman, Ian Egglestone, Andrew (Ted) Cockerill, Marie McCahery, Judith Simpson, Ian J. Simpson, Keith Wilcock, Edmund Davies, Jim Walker, David Marshall PG - Coarse Language   The most quintessentially British working-class filmmaking club, Bradford Movie Makers’ members grow old amid…

Day: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Time: 7:00 PM Venue: Five Points Theatre, 1 Dunlop St W, Barrie, ON L4N 1A1   Documentary | 87 min. | USA Directed by Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb Featuring: LeVar Burton, Twila Liggett, Larry Lancit, Cecily Truett Lancit, Tony Buttino, Steve Horelick, Ed Wiseman, Ellen Schecter   Butterfly in the Sky tells the story of the beloved PBS children’s series "Reading Rainbow," its iconic host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators faced in…

MISSION: JOY Finding Happiness in Troubled Times Day: Friday, March 24, 2023 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: Five Points Theatre, 1 Dunlop St W, Barrie, ON L4N 1A1   Documentary | 90 min. | USA | Not rated Directed by Louie Psihoyos and Peggy Callahan Featuring: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Thupten Jinpa Langri, Mpho Tutu van Furth, Doug Abrams, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Richie Davidson   Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, Mission: JOY is a documentary with unprecedented access…

Day: Friday, March 24, 2023 Time: 7:00 PM Venue: Five Points Theatre, 1 Dunlop St W, Barrie, ON L4N 1A1   Documentary | 109 min. | Canada | Not rated Written and Directed by Brian D. Johnson Featuring: Jason Logan, Margaret Atwood, Soroya Syed In English, Spanish, Japanese with English subtitles.   Ink is our primal medium. It has always been with us, inscribing the evolution of humanity. The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s mystery and power through the…