Blasts from the past: Hoffa hires The Irishman, new-style Charlie’s Angels and car racing in Ford v Ferrari

New Movies
Volkmar Richter
Also films from South Asia: one history and an entire festival
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Photos: Big Sugar sweetens up the Commodore

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Reviews of a Stephen King sequel, an old-style war movie and a fresh take on Christmas

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Portrait of the Artist as a Ripe 引き籠もり

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Arnie is back again, Antonio portrays his director and Adolf does comedy (huh)?

Nov 1st, 2019
Also an Israeli-Palestinian comedy, a superb movie about Vancouver, a standard biopic about an anti-slavery activist in the US and an English king’s story that Shakespeare already told us

Bangarra: 65,000 year old avant garde

Aboriginal troupe brings new salience to world's oldest cultures in Canadian premiere tour
DanceLincoln KayeOct 25th, 2019

Patriot Acts

Joel de la Fuente animates Sakata paean to a pacifist, anti-racist Happy Warrior
TheatreLincoln KayeOct 23rd, 2019

Differently abling the specially needy

Arts Club's Corcoran directs Citadel in Canada premiere of Pulitzer-winning "Cost of Living"
TheatreLincoln KayeOct 22nd, 2019

Travel

Savoring three good ones: Parasite’s class consciousness, going mad in The Lighthouse and The Boss singing his new album Western Stars

Also: catching up with Monos and checklisting horror films for Halloween
New MoviesVolkmar RichterOct 23rd, 2019

Footloose & fancy. Free?

Marjorie Chan's "China Doll" @ Gateway: #Time'sUp in late Qing Shanghai
TheatreLincoln KayeOct 17th, 2019

Interdisciplinary entanglements

Inverso brings brings Telford's quantum energy to "Spooky Action" world premiere at Firehall
DanceLincoln KayeOct 15th, 2019

How the Fallen are Mighty

Emily Dorn's bravura Violetta carries Van Opera's latest "Traviata"
MusicLincoln KayeOct 17th, 2019

Will Smith and Eddie Murphy come back strong, Meryl Streep follows the money and one final VIFF pick

And there’s more: a scathing portrait of Trump’s role model and Xavier Dolan’s latest look at “friendship”
New MoviesVolkmar RichterOct 10th, 2019

We all still pay for"The Shipment"

Discomfiting the comfy, Speakeasy's jarring minstrelsy reprises at Presentation House
TheatreLincoln KayeOct 8th, 2019

From China to VIFF: Cinéma Virtualité

Hungry Ghosts: invisible exhibitionists livestream online in Zhu Shengze's "Present.Perfect"
FilmLincoln KayeOct 4th, 2019

News

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“Charitable” Fraser Institute accepted $500k in foreign funding from Koch oil billionaires

Alexis StoymenoffApr 25th, 2012

Fraser Institute co-founder confirms 'years and years' of U.S. oil billionaires' funding

David P. BallApr 26th, 2012

Ride hailing, electric vehicles, self-driving cars: Ford Canada looks to future

Laura KaneMar 29th, 2017

Opinion

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Open Letter: UBCIC calls for the immediate cessation of the expropriation of lands for the doomed Site C Dam

Vancouver ObserverJun 8th, 2017

Lessons from the UK: why Canada needs proportional representation

Warren BellMay 10th, 2015

Please treat Indigenous women like your sisters

Dylan WaismanApr 16th, 2018

City

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Sunshine Coast a year-round outdoor haven with plenty of 'Beachcombers'

Lauren KrugelSep 6th, 2016

Your water wise summer starts early this year

Vancouver ObserverApr 18th, 2018

Two good kids films (though one is better for adults) and then rampant juvenilia with Hellboy

Volkmar RichterApr 12th, 2019

Culture

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Milky Chance 'blossoms' at the Commodore

Craig FleischFeb 5th, 2018

Marguerite Pigott at the American Film Market: Gender Diversity Panel 2018

Tracy WrenOct 22nd, 2018

Conflicting toy movies and two films to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day

Volkmar RichterJun 21st, 2019

Life

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Your numerology cycles February 15–28

Cassandra MacLeaneFeb 12th, 2019

Your numerology cycles March 16–31

Cassandra MacLeaneMar 12th, 2019

Your numerology cycles July 16–31

Cassandra MacLeaneJul 16th, 2019

Environment

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Guy Dauncey gets ready for a "solar tsunami"

Jenny UechiMay 6th, 2014

Money and influence cast long shadow over province's decisions on Fraser River, records suggest

Jenny UechiFeb 19th, 2015