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07/17/2026

😹 “Watching silly cat videos is good for you.” – The Wall Street Journal

Cat Video Fest is back at ByTowne Cinema this August!

Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest, a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. Each year, across the country, local theatres partner with nearby cat-focused charities, animal welfare associations and shelters alike — a portion of ticket proceeds from every show goes directly to local cats in need.

It’s the purrr-fect way to celebrate our favourite four-legged feline friends while raising money for local cats in need!

🍿 Screening August 7, 8, 9 & 12

🎟 Get your tickets here: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/2026-cat-video-fest/

07/16/2026

🏄‍♂️ Up next in our Staff Picks series, we're making some boards and hitting the surf with our penguin (and chicken) besties!

2007's legendary mockumentary "Surf’s Up" goes behind the scenes of the high-octane world of competitive penguin surfing. The film profiles Cody Maverick, an up-and-coming surfer as he enters his first pro competition. Inspired by his hero, the legendary wave rider Big Z, Cody leaves his family and his town of Shiverpool, Antarctica to travel to Pen Gu Island for the Big Z Memorial Surf Off...

🍿 Starring Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder and James Woods, "Surf's Up" screens Sunday, July 26 at 12:30pm

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/staff-pick-surfs-up/

👖💘 Gather your friends and get ready to laugh, cry and share the pants!Based on the best-selling novels by Ann Brashares...
07/16/2026

👖💘 Gather your friends and get ready to laugh, cry and share the pants!

Based on the best-selling novels by Ann Brashares, inseparable best friends Carmen (America Ferrera), Tibby (Amber Tamblyn), Lena (Alexis Bledel), and Bridget (Blake Lively) spend their first ever summer apart, but stay in touch passing along letters and a pair of pants that mysteriously fit them all perfectly.

Rife with sun-soaked adventures, romance, and coming-of-age angst, "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" was the sophisticated selection of the tween sleepover, and remains a testament to girlhood and friendship that’s worth revisiting or sharing with your besties who haven’t experienced it.

🍿 "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" screens Thursday, July 23 at 6:30pm

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/slumber-party-sisterhood-of-the-travelling-pants/

🤌 It’s positively irresistible.🍿 Olivia Wilde's "The Invite" is now playing at the ByTowne Cinema, screening until July ...
07/16/2026

🤌 It’s positively irresistible.

🍿 Olivia Wilde's "The Invite" is now playing at the ByTowne Cinema, screening until July 23!

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/the-invite/

07/15/2026

🩷 You either have it or you don’t.

After a 10-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, director Nicolas Winding Refn (“Drive”, “The Neon Demon”) is back with his newest film, “Her Private Hell”!

A mysterious mist envelops a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity. A troubled young woman embarks on a quest to find her father, which intersects with that of an American GI who is on a harrowing journey to rescue his daughter from Hell.

🍿 Starring Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton and Havana Rose Liu, “Her Private Hell” screens August 1, 3 & 5 at the ByTowne Cinema!

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/her-private-hell/

🍿 Step into the kitchen this August at the ByTowne Cinema!A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stu...
07/14/2026

🍿 Step into the kitchen this August at the ByTowne Cinema!

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

🎟 From director Matt Johnson ("BlackBerry") and starring Dominic Sessa, "Tony" tickets go on sale August 6th.

🔗 Sign up to be notified when tickets drop here: https://mailchi.mp/bytowne/tony-coming-soon

07/14/2026

🌊 Only one thing worse than being at sea. Not being at sea.

From director Mark Jenkin ("Enys Men") and starring Callum Turner and George MacKay, a mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew...

🍿 A The New York Times critic’s pick, "Rose of Nevada" is coming to the ByTowne Cinema this Saturday!

Screening July 18, 19 & 20

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/rose-of-nevada/

“The comedy event of the summer.”🍿 Accept the offer - "The Invite" is now playing at the ByTowne Cinema!Screening until ...
07/13/2026

“The comedy event of the summer.”

🍿 Accept the offer - "The Invite" is now playing at the ByTowne Cinema!

Screening until July 23rd

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/the-invite/

📽 Paul Schrader’s (“First Reformed”) visually stunning, collage-like portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwrigh...
07/13/2026

📽 Paul Schrader’s (“First Reformed”) visually stunning, collage-like portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (portrayed by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society.

With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and a highly influential score by Philip Glass, “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right.

🍿 “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” screens July 25 & 29

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/spectacle-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters/

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