{"id":64179,"date":"2020-02-24T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64179"},"modified":"2020-02-24T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:34:42","slug":"catch-the-good-liar-at-bufs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/catch-the-good-liar-at-bufs\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch The Good Liar at BUFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British screen legends Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen go head to head in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljKzFGpPHhw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Good Liar<\/a>,<\/em> playing this Thursday, Feb. 27 at BUFS.<\/p>\n<p>Con man Roy meets retired Oxford professor Betty through an online dating service. By the end of their first dinner date, they have both confessed that they lied in their profiles, yet they begin a companionship that progresses too quickly for the liking of Betty\u2019s grandson, Stephen. Roy delights in the sheer thrill of the game when it comes to fleecing his marks, but we soon learn that he doesn\u2019t flinch from more serious crimes, either. Luckily, Betty is not as na\u00efve as she first appears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough it all\u2026 Mirren and McKellen never waver,\u201d says Kenneth Turan of the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>. \u201cSmooth at being smooth, their conviction always convinces us, and their ability to register multiple subtle changes of emotion is consistently impressive. They are, in the final analysis, actors playing actors pretending not to be actors, and that is something to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on Nicholas Searle\u2019s bestselling novel, <em>The Good Liar<\/em> marks the first time that the 80-year-old McKellen and 74-year-old Mirren have appeared together in a film.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all BUFS shows are available at the Film House in the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) on the evening of screenings. General admission is $9.50 or $7 for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=FilmHouseMembership&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Film House members<\/a>, plus tax. Free BUFS memberships are also available on screening nights.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/cpcf\/brock-university-film-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BUFS web page<\/a>\u00a0for this season\u2019s selection, with additional titles being added to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=filmhouse&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calendar<\/a>\u00a0as they are confirmed. Look for the red B that indicates a BUFS-hosted screening.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 40 years, BUFS has been bringing the best in independent and art house cinema to the Niagara region. The society is supported by the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Brock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British screen legends Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen go head to head in The Good Liar, playing this Thursday, Feb. 27 at BUFS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":64180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[6970,92,153,522,8717],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64181,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64179\/revisions\/64181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}