All is True is a small film in the best sense. Its locations are few, its cast list is short, and its focus—William Shakespeare’s last few years of life, post-London—is narrow. Coming from director...
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The White Crow delivers where it counts
Early in The White Crow, I started to worry that it was the type of movie that wouldn’t let you see dancers in motion until halfway through the third reel. Happily, that’s not the case. As the stor...
Audio Series: Essential Tips For Your First Documentary From DOXA Filmmakers
The Doxa Documentary Film Festival is now upon us and to kick things off, we thought we’d have a number of this year’s filmmakers and directors give some advice to those seeking to make their first...
Vancity Theatre: Walter Murch on editing now and Apocalypse then
On April 16th, VIFF and Vancity Theatre hosted a sold-out evening with renowned film editor Walter Murch, who’s known for major motion pictures like Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, and J...
Vancouver Badass, Day Three: The Hollow Child and Knuckleball offer up Canadian badass
The VBAFF is in some ways destined for throwback material. “Badass” as a concept is both fraught and indeterminate in the days of performative-wokeness pop culture. And indeed, the gangsters, capti...
Vancouver Badass, Day Two: A Mata Negra and Amazon Hot Box in a double feature from the Darkside
VBAFF’s second day offered up two features from Darkside Releasing: Brazilian black-magic-and-blood-splatter fantasy horror A Mata Negra (The Cursed Forest), and women-in-prison exploitation throwb...
Vancouver Badass, Day One: Polterheist, Perfect Skin, and a séance!
There are lots of ways you can take the word “badass.” The Vancouver Badass Film Festival, now in its fifth year, seems happy with any and all of them. Over four short films and two features, the f...
The Shadow of Gold sheds a light on the dark corners of today’s mining industry
Gold: a much-worshipped metal, often used to symbolize greatness and purity. But before it reaches consumers, gold undergoes a process that undercuts the greatness we often ascribe to the final pro...
Twenty Years of Crazy8s, and Vancouver’s Not Slowing Down
Despite the two-decade milestone, Saturday night’s screening at The Centre on Homer Street wasn’t a major departure from years past. And that’s the surest proof of a good thing going: after so many...
The Newest Creed is II Much of a Good Thing
Creed II hits all the right notes, and then just keeps hitting, and hitting, and hitting. How does this movie have the same running time as Creed? That movie felt muscular. This one feels flabby—2%...
Using religion as a character diminishes the impact of Disobedience
There’s always something disconcerting about watching a film where the character’s religion appears to strip away their agency. There is obviously nothing inherently wrong with religion itsel...
RBG shows us the softer side of the infamous Supreme Court Justice
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become an icon of sorts. She is the second woman to have been confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court and is often lauded for the sharp and direct nature of her decision...
