The Screening Room Archives

The Screening Room has reopened for business

Written on February 26, 2021. Posted in Arts.

“[It] feels good to be playing movies again,” Wendy Huot, owner of The Screening Room, told The Journal. The Screening Room is open once again and operating at 25 per cent capacity in accordance with local health guidelines. Moviegoers can purchase their tickets and select seats in advance on The...

Friends of The Screening Room raise over $100,000 for local indie theatre

Written on February 5, 2021. Posted in Arts.

The Kingston community recently rallied together to save beloved independent movie theatre, The Screening Room. Through its Friends of the Screening Room campaign, the theatre raised over $100,000 to sustain itself in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with The Journal, owner Wendy...

‘A weird, uncanny thing’: Wendy Huot talks The Screening Room going dark during quarantine

Written on September 25, 2020. Posted in Arts.

Wendy Huot was fulfilling a life-long dream when she bought the popular indie theatre, The Screening Room. Now, in the face of the pandemic, it faces its greatest challenge. In an interview with The Journal, Huot talked about her love of movies, why buying The Screening Room was a dream come true,...

Film Screening Boneyard challenges horror genre cliches

Written on February 2, 2018. Posted in Arts.

On Sunday night, Kingston filmmakers Brent Nurse and Steven Spencer revealed their latest film Boneyard at The Screening Room. Boneyard is a horror/thriller that appeared at both the FearNYC Film Festival and the Kingston Canadian Film Festival in 2017. Working with both a low budget and a small...

Columbus is a quiet, captivating debut

Written on November 16, 2017. Posted in Arts.

Academic-turned-filmmaker, Kogonada quietly reflects on the inscrutability of life in his feature-length debut titled Columbus. What else can we expect from an academic in Hollywood? The resulting movie is a meandering reflection on architecture and its role in the lives of the film’s two leads, John...

This Time Tomorrow's slow win

Written on September 22, 2017. Posted in Arts.

Toronto-based Colombian-Canadian filmmaker Lisa Rodriguez gives a glimpse into a middle-class Bogotà family leading an uneventful life until tragedy strikes, unsettling their relationships and routines in her film This Time Tomorrow. The Screening Room, an independent movie theatre in downtown Kingston,...

The Room: the worst movie of all time

Written on January 26, 2016. Posted in Lifestyle.

When you attend a live screening of The Room, you embark on a communal journey through the wholly unapologetic and self-indulgent brainchild of Tommy Wiseau. This is a participatory experience. There will be inside jokes that you will learn and accept — with some of them literally and dangerously...

Looking through a lens of self-discovery

Written on January 24, 2014. Posted in Arts.

Doing what you love is a journey of self-discovery, something Michael Kenney, ArtSci ’08, found through filmmaking. Kenney’s film Playing it Straight was voted as a Festival Favourite at the 2013 Cinema Diverse! Palm Springs Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It will be playing at the Reelout Film and...

Classics and interactive: The Screening Room

Written on November 25, 2013. Posted in Lifestyle.

Kingston was dearly missing something, before The Screening Room brought classic movies downtown. “I just thought… if we could watch classic movies in the cinemas in Kingston,” Wendy Huot, owner of The Screening Room, said, “then Kingston would have everything that I would want – no need to live...

Glitter and gore

Written on October 29, 2013. Posted in Lifestyle.

This past Friday night, I lost my virginity to the Rocky Horror Picture Show along with Janet and Brad. I had never felt more normal. It was one of the most liberating and horrifying movies I had ever seen. Rocky Horror is a British musical film adaptation of the original theatre play of the same...

One-shot battle

Written on November 11, 2011. Posted in Arts.

The Kingston-based film 21 Brothers may have set a new Guinness World Record for the longest film shot with a single camera. “We didn’t plan on it, we kind of lucked out,” director and producer Michael McGuire said of the film being shot in one take. The film can be verified as the longest single...

Enchanting experience

Written on September 16, 2011. Posted in Arts.

Wendy Huot, had big plans to update the Screening Room when she bought the theatre in July. She’s launching a new initiative on Sunday. The Screening Room speaker series will pair films with relevant Kingston experts. “It’s a pretty straightforward idea,” Huot said. “It’s something that will enrich...

Film facelift

Written on July 26, 2011. Posted in Arts.

The new owner of a local movie theatre is looking to attract students. Wendy Huot, a Queen’s University librarian, bought the Screening Room at 120 Princess St. this June. She said she’s hoping to add late-night screenings of horror and cult films to “encourage a different crowd and be a little bit...

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The Screening Room has reopened for business

Friends of The Screening Room raise over $100,000 for local indie theatre

‘A weird, uncanny thing’: Wendy Huot talks The Screening Room going dark during quarantine

Film Screening Boneyard challenges horror genre cliches

Columbus is a quiet, captivating debut

This Time Tomorrow's slow win

The Room: the worst movie of all time

Looking through a lens of self-discovery

Classics and interactive: The Screening Room

Glitter and gore

One-shot battle

Enchanting experience

Film facelift

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