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...
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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...
Vancouver Short Film Festival showcases homegrown talent
Eight years in and the Vancouver Short Film Festival (VSFF) is finding its stride. The festival kicked off last night with its first programme followed by a special late-night selection of horror a...
Burden Of Truth is a fresh take on Canadian legal dramas
Although Canada has become a hotspot for film and television from a technical standpoint, it’s been slower in its transition to actually producing content geared towards Canadian content, relative...
In Spielberg’s The Post, hindsight and nostalgia reign
The Post, like Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, seems to show us the sausage-making process of American landmarks. The Pentagon Papers, it shows, were hastily copied in an advertiser’s office adorned wi...
Iridescence- Trauma and Redemption in 8-minutes of Dance
Iridescence is a short film about Logan (Jhomar Suyom), a 16-year-old boy, living with an abusive father, Vince (Andrew Nadanyi). Director Max Beauchamp packs a complete narrative arc into eight te...
Ups and Downs with Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel
Amid the new controversy surrounding the personal life of 81-year-old Woody Allen comes the release of the director’s 48th feature film Wonder Wheel, as if carefully navigated by a Hollywood public...
Last Flag Flying tries to lend some sentimental dignity to the scattered veterans of American wars
When someone who has endured trauma talks, what are they really saying? There’s a lot of business in the past of Last Flag Flying, some of it having to do with source material, but most of it has t...
Coco sends a family’s old arguments through the afterlife
Pixar is now well into its second generation of directors, and a few patterns have emerged. Even before news was reported about the reasons behind Rashida Jones and her writing partner leaving the ...
