by Sheldon McRae, Communications Coordinator, APTN

For those times when the glare from a phone keeps your eyes wide open, or you are feeling dull from swiping on a tablet screen. APTN Movies presents a feature every night during the month of March with Night Owl Movies, and Homegrown Cinema also takes you on a new Indigenous experience every Thursday evening.

Get ready to lose yourself for an hour or two; it’s time to entertain the night owl inside. From a murder mystery that pokes fun at the genre to a documentary that honours an important part of the past – and almost everything in between: first off is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang…

Comedy, mayhem and a mockery of the murder mystery genre in the form of an action-packed movie. And it’s a mélange of characters: a sleuth, a bandit masquerading as a struggling actor, and a real actor hanging by a thread. All are entangled in a rollercoaster ride plot filled with conundrums and the traces of romance. Val Kilmer cast as Gay Perry, the sleuth.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang airs March 10 at 1:00 a.m. ET on APTN East.

Or take in a documentary such as We Were Children to commemorate part of our stories and honour the past. This feature tells the heartbreaking true story of Lyna Hart and Glen Anaquod, removed from their homes at the ages of four and six and forced to adapt to a strange, threatening new world in Canada’s residential school system. Blending stunning dramatic storytelling with unflinching documentary narratives, the film gives voice to two chi ...