A Truly Stirling Performance
November 21, 2012
It’s a shame Lindsey Stirling booked The Rio. Not on account of the overly self-conscious hip hop of The Vibrant Sound, or the bizarrely satisfying bluegrass of von Grey, but
Chris Shalom
A Poetic Call to Action
October 26, 2012
Dirty Snow is a reminder of where poetry should be: at the forefront of political thought, drawing the connections that help us to deeply consider our relationship to the actions
Tragic Comedy
October 10, 2012
hates you. Okay, it probably doesn’t. But there are a few things about you that it really doesn’t like. First and foremost, it has utter contempt for the films that
The Other Side of Evil
October 4, 2012
Nestled deep in the maddening inconsistencies of Young-Joo Byun’s dramatic thriller are moments of raw emotional genius. Alternately melodramatic and understated, Helpless is sometimes a frustrating viewing experience, but the
Go Viral, Cronenberg Style
October 2, 2012
Everyone steals a little something from work now and then, right? Paper clips, pencil sharpeners, infectious diseases from the bodies of our favourite celebrities – in Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg’s
Do Something for a not so Average Rom-Com
September 28, 2012
Do Something with Your Life is a good-hearted romantic dramedy with some attitude, and a film Vancouverites can be proud of. First of all, it’s actually set in Vancouver –
Iron Sky: 50s Sci-Fi Shlock for the Internet Generation
September 9, 2012
Well, there’s certainly passion on display. In Iron Sky, genuine sci-fi enthusiasm mixes with a wacky plot-line, homages to Internet memes, and political satire in such an audaciously scatter-shot way
Good Timber? Great Timber!
August 10, 2012
Frankly, Good Timber is probably worth it for the wealth of logging slang alone. Secretly, we all wanted to know when to say “guthammer,” or what “galloping goose” means, right?
BIRTH – Theatre Review
July 22, 2012
Birth hits the stage with rollicking passion and storytelling flair – probably everything that was missing from grade nine sex ed. The first play by non-profit theatre society 75 Cent
India is beautiful in Trishna
July 17, 2012
Michael Winterbottom’s third Thomas Hardy adaptation moves Tess of the D’Urbervilles to contemporary India with mixed results. At the centre of the film experience is a frustrating conflict between the
One in Every Crowd, by Ivan E. Coyote – Book Review
July 17, 2012
Maybe you never gathered with the neighbourhood kids to roll each other down a hill inside dump-truck tires. Maybe you never had a daily routine of playing ‘comb-ball’ until someone
To Rome With Love – Film Review
June 27, 2012
One of the winning lines of Woody Allen’s latest comedy comes near the conclusion of one of its four stories, when a young character pronounces that “with age comes wisdom.”
